AquaChallenge: SPIRIT OF SPRING

Hello you beautiful spring watercolorists   

It's time for you to wake up from your deep winter sleep, put your winter coats down and prepare your spring paint brushes  

It's AQUACHALLENGE time!  

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The THEME for April / May is:
 SPIRIT OF SPRING  
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Some keywords related to Spring: new beginnings, awakening, re-birth, flowers, rain, colorful, bees, butterflies, birds, blooming...
Paint what ever spring means to you, what you like about that time.
Be creative with the theme  

WHO can participate:
 Any member of watercolorists can join the fun.
 Donators  are welcome to participate too!
 Previous AquaChallenge winners will not be able to enter the Final 10 (i.e. previous 3 winners will sit out from being included in the Final 10 for one AquaChallenge). Winners are still most welcome to submit their artwork as ALL participants are featured in our group feature. We would like to give a chance to those who didn't win previously.


RULES about submissions (NOTE: Please read them carefully!):
 Your work must be new - submitted on DeviantArt between 15th April 2017 and 15th May 2017 in order to participate.
 Only one entry per member.
 Your artwork has to apply to our group's Submission rules - obviously it needs to be a watercolor or one of acceptable media! In case you're not sure if your work applies, please ask us directly.
 Please mention the AquaChallenge in the description of your artwork so that we know it's supposed to take part in the challenge.


WHERE to submit:
Please submit to the AquaChallenge folder. We will open it on 15th April 2017.
watercolorists.deviantart.com/…


TIME to submit your artwork:
This AquaChallenge starts with 15th April 2017 and ends on 15th May 2017, 23:59 Western European Summer Time (GMT +1.00).
To check what hour will it be in your time zone, you can use this page: www.worldtimeserver.com/


PRIZES:

  1st PLACE:
 300    
 A Journal Feature from LualaDy, IvieMoon
 A Llama from LualaDy, Kirschpraline
 Artwork: 1 marker portrait (example: Liliane) from LualaDy
 Artwork: 1 colored waist up with a simple background from Kirschpraline
 Artwork: 1 custom ACEO from ParadoxSketchbook
 Artwork: A5 mixed media illustration from NOLANOS
 A feature place in our News box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery


  2nd PLACE:
 200   
 A Journal Feature from LualaDy, IvieMoon
 A Llama from LualaDy, Kirschpraline
 Artwork: 1 full body sketch (example: Mars) from LualaDy
 Artwork: 1 custom twinchie from ParadoxSketchbook
 A feature place in our News box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery


  3rd PLACE:
 100  
 A Journal Feature from LualaDy, IvieMoon
 A Llama from LualaDy, Kirschpraline
 Artwork: 1 portrait sketch (example: Shokuaku) from LualaDy
 Artwork: 1 custom inchie from ParadoxSketchbook
 A feature place in our News box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery

  CREATIVITY prize:
60 from our guest judge


  ALL participants will be featured in a group feature!


  CALLING FOR DONATORS!
If you want to help us with prizes (points, features, artworks, stamps, …), we would be very grateful and happy. The more prizes we can collect the sweeter awards can get!
If you can donate points, artworks, features, llamas for winners, please comment under this journal or send a note directly to the group. You can also use the donation widget on SpaceCastaway's, Art-by-Cricket's or TokyoMoonlight's page.  


 Would you like to be a GUEST JUDGE for a special category - CREATIVITY prize?
You can become one if you donate (100) 50  or more to the winner of this category. You will be able to pick one lucky winner from all of the participants in this AquaChallenge. The winning artwork will be chosen based on creativity. So you as a guest judge will decide which artwork is in your opinion the most creative one. The first person to apply for this (writes this wish in a comment), gets to be the judge.


VOTING:
From all of the entries the admins of the group will choose 10 best artworks and make a voting poll.
You, our members, will decide which 3 artworks are the best by voting in the poll.
Yes, it's YOU who will decide who wins!
Everyone has one vote - also the participants!

We will choose the best 10 artworks for the poll (as soon as possible) based on the relation to the given theme, creativity and effort. Voting will be closed after a week and at the same time the winners will be announced.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!  

HAVE FUN, BE CREATIVE AND MOSTLY… BE A BOLD WATERCOLORIST!

your ~watercolorists team