AquaChallenge: WHITE PERFECTION - EXTENDED

Hello watercolorists  members    
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  NOTE:  
The deadline to enter the AQUAChallenge has been extended for 1 week!

The new (and final) deadline is:
23rd February 2018, 23:59 Central European Time (CET)

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What?! You thought we forgot about the next AquaChallenge? Don't worry  , the Santa was early in our group and left us an awesome gift. 
   

Which one, you may wonder

The next AquaChallenge theme of course!  

And because we have been so good, he even decided to give us an additional gift...

MORE POINTS!  


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The THEME for winter is:
   WHITE PERFECTION     
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Some KEYWORDS related to WHITE PERFECTION: 
All artworks must show the beauty of white: white snow, white animals, white flowers, white clouds, white dress, white birds etc.

To paint white things with watercolor is not an easy task. But after all...AquaChallenge is all about CHALLENGE, right?! So try your best with painting "white" with "non-white" colors.

Be creative with the theme as much as possible...surprise us with your clever artworks. Don't forget that there's a creativity prize also!
  
And one more thing...the real name of the Santa is who was so nice to leave a suggestion for this AquaChallenge theme. Thank you for your help!

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 voting polls (i.e. previous 3 winners and the creativity winner will sit out from being included in the voting 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 16th December 2017 and 16th February 2018 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 16th December 2017.


TIME to submit your artwork:
This AquaChallenge starts with 16th December 2017 and ends on 16th February 2018, 23:59 Central European Time (CET).
To check what hour will it be in your time zone, you can use this page: Event Time    from timeanddate.com


PRIZES:

 1st PLACE:
 300
125 from Santa  
 A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery
A journal feature from Aya-Lunar, IvieMoon, LualaDy, RiEile
 A Llama from Aya-Lunar, LualaDy, cassandra4, ArcticSpell


 2nd PLACE:
 200
 75 from Santa  
A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery
 A journal feature from Aya-Lunar, IvieMoon, LualaDy, RiEile
A Llama from Aya-Lunar, LualaDy, cassandra4, ArcticSpell


 3rd PLACE:
 100
 75 from Santa  
 A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery
 A journal feature from Aya-Lunar, IvieMoon, LualaDy, RiEile
 A Llama from Aya-Lunar, LualaDy, cassandra4, ArcticSpell


 CREATIVITY prize:
 120 from our guest judge
 50 from Heartcrocher 
25 from Santa  
 A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery
 A journal feature from Aya-Lunar, IvieMoon, LualaDy, RiEile
 A Llama from Aya-Lunar, LualaDy, cassandra4, ArcticSpell


The guest judge will pick one lucky winner from all of the participants in this AquaChallenge. The winning artwork will be chosen based on creativity. 


 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 TokyoMoonlight's page.  (Please write that it's for the AquaChallenge)

THANK YOU for your kind donation:
 
and special thanks to Santa
 

VOTING:
 Depending on the number of entries we will make 2 semi-final polls simultaneously, each will have max. of 10 artworks. The artworks will be placed in those polls in the order in which they were submitted.

 We will ask you to choose from both semi-final polls the artwork which you like the most. The first 3 artworks which receive the most votes in each semi-final poll will go to the final poll where the winners will be chosen.

1st SEMI-FINAL poll -> 10 (or less) artworks to choose from -> top 3 go to final poll
2nd SEMI-FINAL poll -> 10 (or less) artworks to choose from -> top 3 go to final poll
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FINAL poll -> 6 semi-final artworks to choose from -> 3 AquaChallenge winners

 The time to vote for semi-final and final will be each 5 days.
 In case there will be more than 20 entries  , the admins of the group will choose the best 20 entries and place them on the semi-final polls. The artworks will be chosen based on the relation to the given theme, creativity and effort.
 Everyone has one vote - also the participants!

We hope the voting system is now more objectively  :bademoticon: 

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

HAVE FUN, BE CREATIVE AND MOSTLY… BE A BOLD WATERCOLORIST!
  
 
your ~watercolorists team