very funky, like Mama Cass

Very nice work on her face.

Congrats, very nicely done

Congrats!

Thank you all!

Congratulations

That is cute

Happy new year!

Happy New Year to all of you!

Very sweet creation!

nice !!

cute!! looks like a winner to me happy new year to u too!

Congratulations!

Congratulations and happy new year

wow really beautiful!!!!! one of the best in this contest

Wow!! Colors..

my pleasure!!!

all i can say is.... WOW, definitely my favorite one! GL author

its bravo.........hats off.....its like a dream come true......love the colors combination....GL

wow,what a great piece...well done author

The colors are breath taking! WTG Author. Nice touch with the shrooms in the foreground like that.

great work

Thank you all for your nice comments. I like vivid colours and I use them whenever I can.
The mushrooms were painted with a fluorescent pink but it did not came out as it really is in the photo.

Beautifully done author....

the colors are FABULOUS.
one suggestion for getting your bright pinks to show up better...put a white base in before painting the pink over it..especially since you are going over blacks.
this is outstanding. i think i like the circular view out... makes me think of Alice in Wonderland!!!

beautiful.....

Nice brush work a little more blending where the orange meets the blue would help the transition of colors a bit. Very nice work on this though.

Wow this is great!

Lovely landscape.......Awesome colors......G/L Author.

NO! you are not! I'm quite impressed author! This is actually one of the best TD's I've seen from you yes. Well done!

Congrats well done

Congrats for 1st

Congratulations on your 1st....well done!

Awesome work marina, well done.

Congrats on your win! This is such a great piece!

Congrats beautifully done

wow congrats

nice choice of colours... congrats...

Thank you all so much for your support and votes!
You really touched me!

Congrats, lovely painting, remind me of the fairy-tales I used to love as a child.

Magical ambience to this painting. Congrats on first

Congrats Marina beautiful work

remember me tangled movie...
god work author....

Fantastic! And she's losing her hair strends...

smalapatekut, that was my intention! to tangle stories.
erikuri, yes, she is losing her hair strends, that is why she has to guide the knights, otherwise she won't be able to make a ladder with her hair and escape the tower.

It seems that one hand is facing the wrong way around??... you could also try coning in some irregularities to the right side 'mold' area...
Your light seems painted on... I haven't looked at the sbs yet but changing the layer mode to screen should improve the effect if not already done so. While speaking of light... I don't understand where the yellow light cast is coming from re the windows... if it's meant to be coming from the falling lamp then maybe a large feathered elipse set to screen would be more appropriate to the scene?...

Also but not a major thing, I'd try to lose the noise from the bg!?!... as it's quite prominent!?!... But GL as it is interesting!

JamesD, for the hands I wanted the left one to be with the palm at the sky and the right one facing the lamp. I wanted the light to appear as if coming from her golden locks. The layer mode is set to normal but the brushes were set to colour dodge.
I will try to fix the noise and the irregularities, and see what I can do with the light.
Thanks for the suggestions!

Very cool!!!

Super cool work author...Fabulous idea and great execution...GL

Update: fixed the light and some irregularities. Couldn't end up with something good for the noise so I left it as it is. Oh, and I added some shade on her left arm to make clearer the way it points.

brilliant work here !

I knew it! haha. Well done, author.

Nothing will stop me from giving u high marks...

Congratulations!!! I hope she could have kept some hair strends so far!...

Well done Marina Congrats

Congrats!

Thank you all!

Congrats on your first place!!! very awesome!

Oh wow... love it... it's so cute

hahaha.. excelent work .

Heeeey ! das cute.

Amazing creature author...i saw one of these last night...but i had in that moment a bottle of absinthe with me...

I lve it very much. Suberb

Woooow...Everyone is coming out with such beautiful works..Splendid work author

very nice!)

beautiful job.........

Nice detail and imagination! GL!

Great workkwell done

beautiful job

congrats

congrats

I want one... congrats

Congratulations on first place! Great entry.

Thank you all for your nice comments!

Congrats on 1st! Well deserved!

Cool, and great first . congrats !!