Before I announce the win­ner, I wanted give a HUGE thank-you to every­one who par­tic­i­pated in my paint­ing nam­ing con­test. It’s sim­ply amaz­ing, the num­ber of ways dif­fer­ent peo­ple can see the same thing, even from dif­fer­ent angles. I par­tic­u­larly liked the lit­tle bird in the left-hand cor­ner that Julie noticed.

Even though there were a few con­sis­tent themes, like flow­ers, and dancers, the types of titles sub­mit­ted were widely rang­ing, from:

…the abstract

  • “One” (by Nick)
  • “Life” (by Sabrina)
  • “We All Do” (by Xibee)
  • “Gogh’s Brain Child” (by Servant)
  • “Groupies” (by melissa)
  • “empower enflower”, “Mondrian Chickens with­out Wheelbarrow. Hold the Rain.” (by Pearl)

…to the straightforward

  • “Happiness in the dark” (by Edrei)
  • “Beauty in Black and White” (by Lucy)
  • “Daisies” or “Headlights” (by Joe Lencioni)
  • “Dancers wear­ing fedo­ras” (by Robin)
  • “Eruption” (by Lloyd)
  • “road­side daisies”, “rocket full of posies and bil­i­ties” (by Pearl)
  • “daisy Pop Rocks” (by guili)
  • “Black-eyed daisies” (by Pelf)
  • “An Aerial View of Sufi Spinners Bringing Spring” (by der alt­modis­che, schwarze Bär)
  • “flow­ers and squares” by bya
  • “Impact” (by Melanie)

…to the creative

  • “Sunny Side Up” (by Tiana)
  • “lush brush rush” (by Pearl)
  • “A muse, a spark, a dozen(?) daisies of inspi­ra­tion” (by Jason)

…to the sci-fi

  • “Celestial Blooms” (by Julie)
  • “Stellar Bloom” (by Steph)
  • “silent hill daisies” (by Rob)
  • “gen­e­sis” or “let there be light” (by John)

The Winner: “stroke of pluck” by Pearl.

I chose this as the win­ner because of how well it describes the paint­ing to me in such few words, while being wrapped in a clever pun. Congratulations to Pearl on win­ning the paint­ing! I’ll fig­ure out a way to get it to you this week.

To show my appre­ci­a­tion for all the par­tic­i­pa­tion, any­one who sub­mit­ted a title is eli­gi­ble to receive a 5″×6″ print of the paint­ing. If you’d like a copy, just e-mail me and include your con­tact name and postal address. Since I’ll be num­ber­ing and sign­ing each lim­ited edi­tion copy, I’ll need to know if you want one by the end of the month so I can fig­ure out how many to make in total.