First Place Winner 2015 PATTERN and REPETITION ART CHALLENGE 4.43K Votes Art News North Texas - Dallas Fort Worth USA

Hello everyone,

I am always delighted to keep sharing amusing stories of my artwork. This is a post from January 2015, though. One of my artwork -‘The Water Angels’ won the PATTERN and REPETITION ART CHALLENGE from Art News DFW - visual artists in the North Texas - Dallas Fort Worth. You can see this artwork at this link. Please copy paste to your browser:
http://artmantras.com/featured/the-water-angels-anannya-chowdhury.html


The requirements were that all the entries were to be submitted by Dec. 31st 2014 — and the artists needed feedback and vote by January 15th 2015. Fourteen artists had entered artwork for this challenge which focuses on using REPETITION and PATTERN in their art. They all had to share the meaning of pattern to them, how they use it in their art, and who are their favorite painters using this design element. Here is the link. Please copy paste on your browser:
http://artgroupsdfw.com/challenge/pattern-challenge-entries-vote-for-your-choice-by-jan-15/

This is what I wrote:
Meaning of the pattern to me is simply an implementation of a style of painting called “Madhubani” originated in India several centuries ago. The significance of this style of painting one uses free hand single brush strokes in continuation without breaks while maintaining a symmetrical pattern.
In this depiction of two fishes while the physical shapes of the fishes are biologically alike, however within these fishes I have implemented the Madhubani Patterns as described above.
The special challenge in using the technique is using the method of not lifting your brush while completing each pattern and maintaining a symmetry. Also the color choices needed to be such that every detail is distinguishable
Rabindranath Tagore is my favorite Artist.

My Win:
Of the many competitors who participated which was held online and open to anyone, the jury and online voters selected one of my work and on January 2015 I was announced winner by http://artgroupsdfw.com/. I won by amazing 4.43K votes


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I am very grateful and blessed that my people from social media, twitter, Facebook, pin rest google plus 5and my friends family and fans page (over 5000 +) voted for my win.

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