First Place Winner 2015 ORANGE CHALLENGE Art News North Texas - Dallas Fort Worth USA

Hello everyone,

I am thrilled to keep sharing entertaining stories of my creation. This is a post from March 16, 2015, though. One of my artwork ‘The Lotus Bloom’ won from Art News DFW - visual artists in the North Texas - Dallas Fort Worth.

You can see my artwork at this link below. Please copy paste to your browser:
http://artmantras.com/featured/the-lotus-bloom-anannya-chowdhury.html


My Win:
On March 16th 2015 I was announced winner by http://artgroupsdfw.com/. I won by remarkable 555 votes. Please copy paste to your browser:
http://artgroupsdfw.com/challenge/orange-challenge-entry-anannya-chowdhury/

The announcement of the win was also announced in The Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA). Please copy paste to your browser:
http://dallasartdealers.org/orange-challenge-entry-anannya-chowdhury/

DADA is an affiliation of established, independent gallery owners and not-for-profit art organizations in the Dallas metropolitan area. - See more at: http://dallasartdealers.org/about-dallas-art-dealers-association/#sthash.nGqiPj5a.dpuf
The requirements were that all the entries were to be submitted for the range Challenge tell what the artist thought about the color orange, how artist used the orange: what is its purpose of the artwork and was the orange a go-to color and what artists (or things) think of when they think of orange?

“The purpose of Art News DFW is to foster creativity through visual art nonprofit organizations that support working artists. For visual artists in the North Texas area devoted to news of art events hosted by visual art groups and artists in the North Texas area”

I am very grateful and blessed that my people from social media, twitter, Facebook, pin rest google plus and my friends family and fans page (over 5000 +) voted for my win.

This is what I wrote about the Orange Challenge:
Is orange a go-to color on your palette?
Orange is powerful, orange is pure source of vitality, orange is energy, orange is sun, orange is fire, and orange is beautiful sunrise and sunset, orange is my meditative mind, orange is my favorite color …
What artists (or things) do you think of when you think of orange?
When I think of orange I think of orange sky with rising sun and orange sky at evening sunset. I decided orange for this painting because, The Lotus is known to be associated with rebirth. The lotus flower with the sun which also disappeared in the night, only to re-emerge in the morning.
How do you use orange: what is its purpose in your piece?
The lotus came to symbolize the Sun and the creation. The flower always looks so clean and pure against the background of the dirty pond. I want my life to the bloom of that Lotus that blooms in muddy water and still floats so clean radiating pure beauty.
Technique: No pens/ markers used, but only acrylic colors & brushes. I use my conservative old traditional free hand to do all detailed oriented work with perfection. You can see all vibrant colors and detail work on each little area that is done with so much perfection and simple acrylic paint and brush


Thank you everyone for this wonderful moment and supporting me.
Anannya Chowdhury
Anannya.d.c@gmail.com
www.artmantras.com