Winners of the April art contest

So INN-spiring! We so wish we could book a stay at any one of the magical places from our April art contest✨

The prompt for April was to design an inn or tavern for our weary fairy tale traveler to bed for the night.

We got so many inn-credible entries, you can check them all out on our new Critique Arena website!

The winners were picked during Critique Arena, our monthly live event for members. Our judges seeded the top 16 against each other, and the audience voted for their favorites. Sixteen battled it out in the arena, but only 2 made the final cut!

You can experience all the drama in the recording of the event, which you can watch now on our Youtube channel! But in the meantime here are the two winning entries:

Winner! Art by Chris Akins.

Winner! Art By Liz Orton.

This was a first time win for Chris, and the second win in a row for Liz! So proud of the work they are doing 😊

And here are the rest of the entries that made the Sweet 16 (nicely done team!):

Kathyrn Adebayo (Copy)

Joel Cockrell (Copy)

Saffi Caravella (Copy)

Kelly Moninger (Copy)

Marek Halko (Copy)

Brett Billingham (Copy)

Ellen Seal (Copy)

Kyle Beaudette (Copy)

Valerie Light (Copy)

Melissa Bailey (Copy)

Ruth Wellman (Copy)

Giorgos Christopoulos (Copy)

Garrett Kohls (Copy)

Isabel Reyes Feeney (Copy)

Amazing work everyone! A big round of applause to you all!

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The hobbits approve! GIF from Giphy.

Be sure to enter our May art contest for a chance to win a live art critique and all the glory 💪

The prompt for May is to draw our Fairy Tale Traveler in an environment, in a situation. The enemy is coming down the road and now our traveler must decide whether to face the adversary, flee or hide. How will our traveler get out of this situation??

Entries are due May 31!

See you again in the arena…the Critique Arena!