Lovely colors and composition. It seems that the shadowy figure sends her(his?) birds to catch the stars.

Good luck at the competition

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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Yes, that's a way to interpret it. Going for the stars, wishing for the stars...

Thanks a lot

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage - Anaïs Nin

You become the company you keep, so keep great company - Gopala Ayer Sundaramoorthy

Beautiful. Very inspiring.

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.~_o| Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Thanks a lot

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage - Anaïs Nin

You become the company you keep, so keep great company - Gopala Ayer Sundaramoorthy

My lord your textures never cease to amaze me, how long does a piece like this take you? This is true skill man.

This didn't take me as long as some as the others I've done. I made it on and off during an evening. I was late for the contest so I didn't want to use more time and actually reused different elements and textures from previous pieces, just tried to put them together in a new way.

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage - Anaïs Nin

You become the company you keep, so keep great company - Gopala Ayer Sundaramoorthy

Nice.

Very cool. I like how you incorporated the swirls into the figure on the right. I like the fragile leaf patterns on the left image too.

The left image feels like it's filled by the blue shape, while the right image feels like the background is airy space, so they balance each other out well.

And as usual, I like the colors.

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Are you familiar with cantarella?

Thanks a lot. I'm glad you think they balance each other because I've had a moment of doubt whether the right one is too bare in the background compared to the other side. So it's nice to get an opinion on that.

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Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage - Anaïs Nin

You become the company you keep, so keep great company - Gopala Ayer Sundaramoorthy