To Paint with all the Colors of the Visible Spectrum

By Roy Hayward

Baxter is an artist that uses the cosmos as his canvas. But in spite of his success, he is very alone. When he has finally found someone he might be able to include in his life the actions of a rival put it all at risk. Will he be able to trust someone he has just met in order to survive?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roy Hayward
• Release date: May 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370093915

Roy Hayward

Roy Hayward loves to read. He spent much of his years growing up holed up in well lit corners of libraries reading all of the fiction that he could find. There were many times that one librarian or another would recommend a book, and Roy would have already read it. As a result he decided that he would be a writer at a young age.Roy graduated from high school in Fairfield, Iowa. He served two years as a missionary in Seoul Korea. He attended college at Rick College in Rexburg, Idaho, and then the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Started out studying Chemistry, but switched majors to Political Science.After college, he got a job and discovered that he was more interested in the computers he used than the job he used them to do. A year after college he was working doing tech support for a printer company. He bounced from job to job working his way up in skills and position. He is now a programmer managing a team of Web Developers.In Rexburg, he met his wife Beth. After stealing her away from his roommate, they were married in the Idaho Falls Temple and began their life-long adventure. They had seven children of their own and then became foster parents. As of this writing they have adopted five children from foster care and are still fostering children.Through all of these adventures, Roy has continued to read, and to write. And to share his love of good books with others; his friends, his family, and random people on the internet.

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TO PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM

Roy Hayward

Copyright © 2018 Roy Hayward

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 9781370093915

To young readers who are looking for stories that will entertain and expand their minds with new ideas and new perspectives.

Applause erupted from the audience as the screens became awash in colors. Soon everyone was on their feet with continued shouts of acclamation.

What color!  shouted one man.

And the emotion!  acclaimed a woman.

Look at the strategic placement of light and dark.  announced someone else.  But there were so many voices and so much noise that it was difficult to distinguish who was saying what.  

Baxter smiled. This was the best moment in the more than a year of preparation that had come before. This was the fuel that he would need to help him move to his next project, his next creation. This and the money these patrons had paid to be in actual attendance at the focal point of the celestial event. To see the painting of stars come to life.

Of course, it was being recorded. This recording would be sold and licensed so that for a fee, anyone could experience it. But there was something different and exciting about being at the actual event and seeing it with your own eyes. At least that is what all of the brochures said, and no one really doubted it even if they couldn’t afford the tickets.  For many here, this was a once in a lifetime expense, so Baxter wanted to make sure they felt they got their money’s worth from it.

Making sure the patrons were satisfied was the only reason he was here. Baxter didn’t really like associating with people he didn’t know. But he stood for pictures, and shook hands and recited more than a handful of prepared witty remarks the writers had fed him as people paid him compliments, and generally fawned over him. It made him very uncomfortable. But he would be alone for the next few weeks, and that was something that he kept telling himself. It was what got him through events like this one.

At last the ceremony was over. Many of the patrons adjourned to the dining room. Still with windows where the continuing stellar splendor displayed its glory, but with tables and chairs and food where people could eat, and have smaller conversations with new friends or old. Baxter was finally surrounded by only his staff and quietly made his exit.

Painting with stars took lots of work, lots of time, and lots of math. But it didn’t take lots of people. Baxter did most of the work himself. There were a few others that attempted this level of art. Drake was probably the nearest thing he had to a competitor, and he kept using comet collisions as his main medium. These could only be seen on a local level.