 Welcome patrons to this exciting announcement for the prize winners in the 12 days of healing challenge. I was so impressed with how many of you participated. Actually it shows a lot of your little icons up here. There's more. I don't know why this usually highlights and tells me how many but there were lots of you guys that not just the ones who participated but there were many of you who even just you know came into the album just to check it out and to see the participants and the paintings and it was so wonderful. So I tallied the results first I'm just going through these and admiring them again. I went in some of you guys may have noticed when you add a painting it shows it automatically puts it at the bottom and so I went in and moved everything around so that oh pardon my scrolling around here so that all of them were grouped according to each day of the challenge. You know we've got all of our marsh scenes here and then oh my gosh you guys I just am blown away with how gorgeous your work is. I really loved this one Linda absolutely beautiful. Look at that the sun and the light and the the movement of the clouds really a great perspective there as they're moving forward over the viewer's head this gorgeous teal color of the water really beautiful work so I'm gonna I'm gonna click on a few of them but the contest results just so you know and these are the road paintings the contest results were I told you guys just participate I wasn't gonna announce exactly what it was but it has to do with the amount of paintings you submitted the effort that you put into this challenge and I do realize that there's a lot of people who have limitations with their time I understand that there's a lot of times with contests that I would not win them if it was based on participation because my life's that crazy oh these are a couple of road paintings I like I got to be careful because I like so many of them the video will just go on forever I like all of them. Linda absolutely beautiful I loved the energy of this and the freshness you nothing overworked in this painting love that little bit of purple back there also Jennifer this is just so soft and beautiful I'm wondering if you did this on Sennelier paper I probably could look at the comments and see but absolutely soft and beautiful all of these I love this kind of a little Van Gogh feeling here and then the pear paintings gorgeous you guys did such a good job with these Dana that's beautiful and this is my happy face I think you mentioned Nancy that you didn't know how that name got there I like it but at first I was like who is this and then I saw some of your other paintings and realized it was you beautiful oh Linda another beautiful one and Sue Elaine look at all these paintings oh Sharon I love your colors that you chose here they're also good my eyes are just flitting around all over the place Brigitte I hope I'm saying your name right here I love this has the little Allen Picard feel to it very nice and then the the flower pot paintings again Nancy I love your you did a different reference photo but that is just magical love it love it love it I mean just look at all these beautiful paintings oh Sophia that's just lovely beautiful beautiful work and then we got to the piggy paintings or whatever cute little animal you decided to paint Kinga this is so darn cute I just love it I would put that on my wall that's just look at their personality I'm such a pig lover my pig looks a little bit um indifferent like why am I why did you wake me up my friends back there sleeping oh and Dana I love your little piggy space and many of you kept all three of them in there it's awesome beautiful Gisela beautiful oh Nancy I love your little birdie so cute Sophia the kitty cat I love how this kitty is just pressing into that little girl's face that is just so typical of a sweet little kitty Linda the horse painting is divine absolutely beautiful oh and all these um beach scenes oh I love those who included the birds as well Janice this is just so precious with the little girl oh there was another one with the birds there was one oh Stephanie I loved your color palette that you chose to do here absolutely beautiful um Lynn this is so fresh you didn't overwork anything with that um and then there was another one that I really just oh right here Sharon this is just beautiful oh more beautiful color a lane another gorgeous one then we get to the flowers okay guys you see I could stay on this all day long I just can't help it I'm serious when I look at this I tell you I feel like a mama hen even though some of your work you could be critiquing me but I'm just so proud of all of you guys this is so beautiful oh my goodness okay so very creative Dana all right I gotta quit so based on participation I have chosen now this was at the time some of you may have submitted work since I did the tallying okay but as of the time that I tallyed it oh guys you did a great job with some of the rose paintings beautiful Lynn that's so pretty um as of the date I'm going to scroll back up to the top of the tallying we I came up with the uh people who contributed most it's the most paintings okay that you contributed to the album and it was so close I'm telling you so many of you were just right neck and neck with all of these numbers as a matter of fact the first place winner was only one painting ahead of the second place winners we have three tied for second place now let me tell you the prizes and then I'm gonna announce the winners every single one of the winners will receive one of the Monet cafe earth colors series bracelets all four of you however I recently found out that one of you has already purchased one or more of the earth series bracelets so for you I'm going to work something out with the gift card difference the other let me go to the number one the number one winner not only we'll get the bracelet but also will receive one hundred dollar dick blick gift card via email okay so you will receive a one hundred dollar prize for art supplies of your choice from dick blick the art retailer many of you know about the second place winners all three of you tied will all three receive a fifty dollar dick blick gift card each of you and the Monet cafe bracelet now here are the winners drum roll please let's do like they do in the miss america contest or the miss world contest let's do the second place winners first all right tied for second place is Dana Patterson beautiful way to go Dana yay look at this lovely little painting of yours and Dana you submitted along with the other two second place winners let me find the tallied results a total of 12 paintings to the challenge along with the other two prize winners that I'm going to announce now and the next second place winner with a total of 12 paintings submitted to the challenge is Kinga the Nook I hope I'm saying your last name right Kinga you are just so amazing with your contributions on Monet cafe art group in Facebook on our patreon page the Susan Jenkins patreon page for my patrons um you in in this album on the patreon page you are so active and engaged so much in learning more about art and painting just so proud of you congratulations thanks for all 12 of those lovely submissions to this album and now the third in the painting challenge submissions with a total of 12 paintings submitted is Lynn Summers oh another little beauty here look at this Lynn you contributed so much I enjoyed looking at your work so much along with everyone else I know again there were some people who did not have the time I so relate to do every painting I barely had the time to do all of the paintings and I'm the one who started it so I totally get that but way to go all of you second place winners you will all receive the $50 dickblit gift card and the Monet cafe earth colors bracelets okay and now here we go for the number one first place prize winner for the 12 days of healing challenge and a total of 13 paintings submitted let me scroll through scroll through who's it going to be who's it going to be scrolling scrolling see I'm just trying to build the anticipation here here we go it is Gisella Plambek I hope I was saying your name right you did such a beautiful job with this little vase of roses you are the first place winner in our 12 days of healing challenge with the most contributions of 13 total contributions and you will receive the $100 dickblit gift card plus the Monet cafe earth colors bracelet so way to go patrons I wanted to make the prizes based on participation rather than me being a judge like I have to do so often in the Monet cafe art group when we have our monthly painting challenges I really feel I hope you guys feel the love here in our patreon group here of a place of encouragement and learning not of competition I know I feel like I'm one of the most competitive people I've ever known and I have to really try hard not to do that myself I preach it all the time to everyone don't don't look to the right or the left just look straightforward and keep learning but we really just want to focus on growing and learning and participating being involved encouraging each other so everybody a big round of applause and congratulations for Gisella way to go and all you guys you're all winners if you just even logged in to look I'm sure it blessed you it's just therapeutic to look at all these beautiful paintings right okay guys I am thankful for your patience during this whole challenge and also I'm looking forward to a lot more coming our way in the patreon group also I chose not to do the zoom presentation or gathering together because of some of the recent challenges with zoom and people kind of worried about hackers and things like that I have found out ways to avoid that so it's not that I won't be using zoom I just didn't want to do it right now for this so I hope you enjoyed this live video premiere announcing the winners in our patreon group god bless you all prayers for your safety and all this to be over with soon but meanwhile as artists we know what to do let's keep painting enjoying each other and feeling blessed with artistic company all right guys happy painting