 Welcome members of the Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. This is a little presentation of the April Painting Challenge winners. I'm going to start with beginner category. I want you to just enjoy all of these paintings until the end when I announce the winners and next it will go after all of these beginner category honorable mentions. The next will be intermediate and then advanced. But these are all the beginners that I chose from the over 200 like I don't know may have been close to 300 entries into this month's or April's Painting Challenge and I'm just amazed at some of this beginner work. It's crazy how awesome this is. But I don't want beginners to get frustrated because some of the level of this work is so good they could be right at the tail end of being a year at a beginner and just some amazing work here. So and after this one I think right after this one is the intermediate honorable mentions and I want to mention that sometimes it's very hard for me to keep up with who has won before and who hasn't and that's a little hard. So sometimes someone may win a couple of times so that's just kind of the way it is when we've got almost 10,000 people in our group now to like keep up with. But you're all winners you know I always say that everyone who participates because you are growing and getting better look at all these beautiful intermediate category entries oh my goodness it's so great but like I said everybody who entered a painting you are a winner as far as I'm concerned and I I love this task but it is hard oh my goodness to go through and choose all of these just to pull out some because they're all so good but these were to represent spring and I thought it was a hopeful type of category for the painting challenge because of so much that's been going on in our world I will be announcing the new painting challenge for the month of May as soon as I get done creating this but again look at these are the intermediate entries outstanding and you probably know intermediate is you've been painting more than a year but less than five years oh and I don't think I mentioned that I'll have the grand winners for each category at the end of this video so now yes this is just a presentation to see all the ones that I pulled as honorable mentions within each category and this is I think towards the end of the intermediate yes this is the last intermediate honorable mention and now we're going into the advanced category now it's so hard to how do you pick just a few of these you know they're just all so good so there were quite a bit of the advanced paintings that I pulled out to showcase you know I want you guys I know a lot of times when we have our painting challenge album there's so many that you guys you're painting and you're uploading that you don't get a chance to really go through all of these and look at them so this is kind of like my opportunity to showcase all of the gorgeous works that were submitted each month for the painting challenge albums and I'm telling you what it is just beautiful work so you guys just enjoy this and then at the end I'm going to announce the winners all right here we go and the winners are for each category beginning with the beginner category is Ronetta Chirruta I believe Ronetta may have won before but man was this painting not amazing can you believe this is beginner work she's just oh she's got pastels down pat that's for sure absolutely beautiful and for the intermediate category Penelope Matalana now Penelope had two paintings submitted they were both gorgeous she may have had more than two but two that I pulled out that you may have seen before and quite a few artists had a few paintings and the winner of the advanced category is Toby Reed Toby had three paintings submitted all gorgeous and I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it I didn't even know it was from Toby but many of you may have followed Toby's situation and story over the past probably over a year now Toby was very ill and I know many of you including me prayed for Toby and it is just so amazing for me to see him creating such gorgeous work it was gorgeous before but you know what trials often help us to reach new heights with art and other things so congratulations Toby now this is an artist or an admin special mention can I do that I'm the admin well I'm gonna do it I thought these paintings represented the category so well it's two paintings from the artist Enrico Paul Mary I mean just look at these adorable bunnies now this one to me stole the show and I know you guys know about my faith I'm not shy about that but that's not the only reason why I picked this painting it's outstanding absolutely beautiful congratulations Enrico on the admin special pick alright Monet cafe family I hope you enjoyed that presentation congratulations to the winners and to all of you for making Monet cafe a place of beauty for the world happy painting