Winners Announced:
http://www.smallworlds.com/2010/04/29/winners-of-the-fantasy-plant-competition/Winners of The Fantasy Plant Competition
April 29, 2010 1:44 PM
Greetings SmallWorlds citizens. The Fantasy Plant competition was a pleasure and an honor to judge. Once again, I have been amazed and humbled by the quality of the entries, and the amount of artistic and creative talent in the SmallWorlds community.
Originally the judges had only intended to choose two finalists in the Best Fantasy Plant and the Most Creative Fantasy Plant categories, but the quality of the entries meant we simply could not restrict our final selections to so few! We have chosen extra paintings in each category to receive prizes.
Also, we were so impressed by the prize-winners in the Best Name category that we increased the prize value in that category to 1000 Gold. And rest assured citizens, that if we could, we would give out many more prizes. There were so many deserving entries that we would have loved to reward!
Here are the talented winners of this competition.
Best Fantasy Plant PaintingFirst Place Winner: Gelwyn McCloud
The Winner of the Best Fantasy Plant Painting is Gelwyn McCloud with her beautiful painting, The Tawny Guardian. This painting was clever, imaginative, and beautifully painted. Well done, Gelwyn! You've won the first prize of 5000 Gold.
The Tawny Guardian by Gelwyn Mccloud
"A cross between a sunflower and a lion, it is planted around the borders of your garden, to keep those nasty plant thieves from vandalizing your garden! No one would dare try and sneak past one of these beauties!"
Second Place Winner: Freedom FriwiIn second place is Freedom Friwi's painting, Helianthus Roseus. The sheer beauty of this painting and the technical skill exhibited impressed the judges enormously. Well done, Freedom! You've won the second prize of 3000 Gold.
Helianthus Roseus by Freedom Friwi
"Here's my entry, which i've named Helianthus Roseus, which is Latin for Pink Sunflowers .. seriously, why do they have to be yellow, we want pink! So yes, it's not very imagination stretching, but a pink sunflower would truly be my fantasy plant *sigh*"
Runners Up: Hanzie Mintana, Leonore Ish, and Frost Rose.
The Runners-Up in this category win 1000 Gold each.Feather Dust Midnight Glow by Hanzie Mintana
"Places where can be found: forests, swamps and here. Only blooms on a full moon at midnight for exactly an hour. can grow to be taller than most trees if it is not trimmed down often."
Swirling Glory by Leonore Ish and Alfalfa Bokchoy
"This one's a collaboration between Lenore Ish and me.Well sorta. Lenore drew this beautiful flower while I just suggested the name and idea.
-Alfalfa"
Barely There Lilium by Frost Rose
"Is the purest of flowers and loved by Humans, Fairies and other creatures, for it's magical nectar and seeds. It's nearly impossible to find one of those mystical Flowers in today's world as it can only grow in unspoiled nature. But when Barely there Lilium grows and blossoms it spreads its seeds of wisdom and its nektar of happiness. Let's hope we see more of them in the future..."
Most Creative Fantasy Plant Painting
First Place Winner: Birth-of-Venus Fly Trap by Katrina ChantThe Winner of the Most Creative Fantasy Plant Painting is Katrina Chant. Our judges thought her Birth-of-Venus Fly Trap painting was clever and quirky. Well done, Katrina! You've won the first prize in this category - 5000 Gold.
The Birth-of-Venus Fly Trap by Katrina Chant
"Based on "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli"
Second Place Winner: Jayna Specie
In second place is The Pheonix's Song by Jayna Specie. This painting was completely different from any other in the competition, and very imaginative. Well done, Jayna! You've won the second prize in this category - 3000 Gold.
The Pheonix's Song by Jayna Specie
"This is The Pheonix's Song. The flower looks like a flame and it plays a song, whatever song you want, when that darn radio isn't working."
Runners Up: Zoiao Doido, Kase Face, Pauline Pages, and Vanilla Starr.
The Runners-Up in this category win 1000 Gold each.
Einstein Plant by Zoiao Doido
"Presenting: Einstein Plant. The most intelligent plant in the World !"
Pink Elephant by Kase Face
This quirky entry made the judges smile and certainly brightened their day! Well done, Kase.
Autumn Palette Tree by Pauline Pages
"Called the autumn palette tree because it's canopy is in a shape of a palette and because of it's fine orange color. Also, the plant excretes a substance called "paint". Also known as "The Messiest Tree in SmallWorlds", since the paint happens to drip to the floor. This tree doesn't grow that tall. It grows to a maximum of one and a half foot, which makes it convenient to put in indoors, but you may wanna hire a lot of people to clean. Very convenient for artists...FREE PAINT! \m/"
Milky Way Rocket Plant by Vanilla Starr
"This is an out of the world creation. It lives in outer space and as long as it has the Sun's heat it can live forever!"
Best NameHere are the winners of the Best Name category. All of these wonderfully creative entries win 1000 Gold each.
The ChrysantheMom by Navi Fairy
"The ChrysantheMom started out as a normal Chrysanthemum, but it seems something went wrong as it grew. Maybe I shouldn't have let my mother talk to it, no matter how helpful that's supposed to be..."
Nacido De Fuego by Connor Belcher
"The name of my plant is 'Nacido de fuego', which is Spanish for 'born of fire'. The common name is The Pheonix Fire Tree."
Tool-lips by Matt Ferii
"This is my tulip well actually Tool-Lips they are just the flower tulip but i went into my imaginary world and got this picture out of my mind"
Tigris Combustus by Deblin Laffeyette
"I present the Tigris Combustus aka. Tigerworks or Tiger Fireworks."
The SodaPopana Tree by Adriel Ukn
"Who wouldn't like to run into one of these trees in the middle of a sunny and hot summer day? Well, Thanks goodness that these are being planted all over the beaches and islands in SmallWorlds, so that we can enjoy a soda and take our thirst away!"
Metamorphlant by Doc Harvey
"Oh! Butterflies!! This is my 'Fantasy Plant' I will name it Metamorphlant."
My most sincere thanks to all who entered the competition, and a big congratulations to all of our talented winners.
-Kent Kronkite