ROCK ON......! yeah......you're The STAR. Jaws.....! great job.

Very nice work, i like the style

Fabulous! GL!

thank you

Really nice one!

Very nice painting, author!
@Josh: I see you have many fans - including me...

Stupendous .... jaw dropping great ... not that we should drop Jaws! I meant my jaw dropped when I saw this ... now that i have confused the issue let me simply say ... SUPER!

Could it be.....a young Eddie? It would give me Piece of Mind to know.
Nice work

Thank you everyone!

Congrats for your first place! Great entry!

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Big congrats!!! Oh I can hardly wait until this graces the front page for a day!

Congrats Muse!

WOW! THANKS EVERYONE! COMPLETELY TOOK ME BY SURPRISE

wow congrats!!!!!!!!

Congrats ... this one had 1st written all over it!

Congrats, something quite different.

Congratulations to you !!! a FIRST place! and so well worth it. i scored it pretty good. nice to see someone mix their traditionals with the digital.

CongratZ my friend on yet another win !!!!!

CongratZ my friend on yet another win !!!!!

Fantastic image author!! Great work..!! A fav if ever i saw one

Well done Author. I love it. G/L.

Excellent pic, great work.

This is excellent.. Would love to see a SBS if possible Great job, really

Added an animated SBS Toothpick, hope it helps explain the making of the image. Sorry that the building of the fairy is not in it but I lost the PSD file for that.

really cool work!

Cool!
Reminded me of a similar entry ( Burning kiss- i think ) with the same fairy model & concept. The guy used different layers of cracked earth the one underneath was red and it looked like skin was pealing off. Veterans surely know it.
This is cool too, and i'm happy to see it since the old entry died with PST, and the user didn't come back.
But you entitled it: explosive kiss - in explosion the exploded parts either become smaller or stay the same, they don't increase size. I know the idea is from the tutorial with the exploded face, but many people stated that the flaw in concept is that bits shouldn't get bigger.

I agree, I've always thought that tut was wrong. The larger fragments should be closer to the source, and get smaller as they expand. Good entry, though.

nice work author

nice work author

Great work author...cool colors and the great mood...

great concept and result !!

This is FREAKING AWESOME!!!

Wicked-cool even!

GL to you!

How to destroy a tough guy with a blow of a kiss...

Love it ... he looks angry and/or astonished ... is that because she is blowing his mind? Or ... okay, I will leave it at that. There are children present!

This is what i call " MINDBLOWING "....gud luck author

Congrats for another great placement this week!

Congrats!! So close, shpuld have won IMO Great entry and congrats again!

Well deserved congrats my friend!

Congrats!

Excellent work. Congrats

Loved it when I voted and love it still! Congrats on a winner!

Congrats on your second place it was close!!!! and what an awesome second place!

Good job blending the girl into the field. GL author.

Agrees with the egg! Nice work here! GL author!

its good but the girl is too big for the overal composition and some 10 cm up with sky

I like it, nice job.

It's a so nice blending that it seems she's always been there!

This is lovely and IMO she is not too big. She is just right! Great blending and love the contrast between the gray and red!

Fantastic work author...love the contrast between flowers and rest of the image...Fantastic blend too and great mood...well done...my favorite

Really nice work here, although I don't understand the monochromatic part. It seems she is monochromatic instead of the dream. Maybe I just don't understand your concept here, but your work is so well done.

I guess it would have helped to put some insight into the work. In my dreams, I dream in third person most times. The way I know who I am withought seeing my face, is that I am always black and white. There is always some color, but...not always as saturated as I made it here...it just looked better like this. Things like the ribbon are always symbols that retain color even when I take hold of them in my dream. So, where the clothing has no color as it is part of myself as a whole, the ribbon keeps its color because it has significance to the meaning of the dream. Had the ribbon not had an underlying meaning to the dream, it too would have faded in color.

Thank you all for your comments. and the favs! I've been really working on my blending of my subjects, so its nice to hear that I've learned something.

Congrats for your third place, Jade!

So happy to see that this placed!!!

Congrats you!!

Congrats on a lovely piece of artwork!

Well done, nice entry.

Wow! I like this author! The colors are really cool! GL!

Thank you, friend!

Yep I like too!

cool work author...may i get your permission to use it in my home.......love the concept author and cat is your trade mark...well done

Thank you all!
@Neb: of course you may...

well done

Well all love our cats!

Very cute and neat creation = )

Lovely work and beautiful colours! Great cat.

Yeah, I love cats... They are everything good! Though they are independent, they are also gracious, elegant, clean, charming... and they are not handful.

I have to agree with you about cats! I have 2 and there are very special "people"!

hahahahaha....cool image with nice touch of humor...good luck author

thnx mate