June Insect Contest Winners

Come learn who won the June Insect contest!

First Place

The overall winner was Damselfly-06-2014 by infinatepixel. I'm a huge fan of delicate dragonflies, and this charming watercolour-like picture captures the beauty and grace of these insects perfectly.

Second Place

Second place went to this lovely green gem, Dragonfly by RedSaucers. Admire the shiny poise of this glittery painting!

Third Place

The colourful, summery Butterfly On Butterfly Weed by Wildarts-Artwork captured third place, with its vibrant colour and welcoming composition.
 



Each of the above entries will receive a permanent feature in the Contest Winners folder along with the usual prizes. You will be contacted by Note to arrange your prizes within a day.

Honourable Mentions

We'd also like to highlight these fantastic entries!





And thank you to everyone else that entered! We appreciate every entry. A lot.

Check out the winners of previous contests!

ArtRage April Trees Contest WinnersThank to everyone who entered last month's Trees contest! We received (as usual) a whole bunch of fantastic paintings, and we're really enjoying seeing them all. Congratulations to everyone who managed to paint us something!
I am sure you were wondering who won last month's contest, so I shall spare you the many terrible tree related puns I have been saving up, and announce the winners.
The Winners
1st Place
First prize went to the peaceful giants in Roots by Hatamarihann

 2nd Place
Second prize goes to the artistic and autumnal Träd 03 by HenryStahle

3rd Place

Wander through the darkness of Forest by Bactaboy and admire the fact that they only used a mou ArtRage March Cats Contest WinnersWe have emerged from our secret lair after hours of petting the resident cat and cooing over adorable kitty pictures to announce the winners of the March Cats Contest.
The Winners
First Place
By general accord, the clear winner was the quirky and clever cartoonish Houston, we found it! by Peyeyo. Not only was it amusing, but it was well drawn, original, and full of cats.

Second Place
Another clear winner, this one was a lot of people's favourite. Bold colours, a humourously startly expression, and of course, unnatural mind powers, made it easy for Hypnotizing March cat by Ehtiona to hypnotise us into giving it a prize.

Third Place
Third place was actually really difficult. After the first two winners, we had so many different good entries, from ski ArtRage February Portrait Contest: Winners!Well, the judging is over, and I'm sure you're all impatient to learn who won, so I won't bore you with the details of judging. I'm sure you don't want to hear of the trauma of having to decide between so many fantastic pictures, the wide range of completely different choices that everyone picked out, the endless rounds of voting as we tried to narrow down the choices to a few winners and the mighty duels we fought over the final placements. The skies darkened to the thunder of our typing, and the clash of styluses was heard throughout the city. The entire North Island of New Zealand shook, as we proclaimed our favourites to the skies.
And at last, we came to a truce, and agreed on the Three Greatest Paintings out of all of the many great and wonderful entries.
No, I'm sure you don't want to hear about that. We might as well skip straight to the announcement.
But before we do, I'd like to say how nice it was to see such a large number of entries for our first contest, and that there we ArtRage May Landscapes Contest WinnersFirstly, my sincere apologies for the delayed announcement. We had far too much trouble deciding this time around and had to keep going back into voting! (Translation: stop drawing so many great pictures, you're making the judges' lives difficult )
First Place
The overall winner was the stunning Sunset by Armoress. Colours, texture, composition and a real sense of a wide open sky all make this one a winner.

Second Place
Winter landscape by PG-Artwork clearly shows its Bob Ross inspiration, in the form of its "happy little trees" (to quote one of the judges ). It's a lovely mountain scene and makes one think of hikes and skiing.

Enter the current contest

The contest for July is about Space!

• Read the announcement here
• Submit your entries to the contest here