I’m happy to report that Winter at the Moors, II was just awarded first place for a November monthly challenge at pmp (Paint-My-Photo). The goal of the challenge was to paint a White Christmas Challenge based on a reference image from one of the photographers.
I was thrilled to learn the news. In my case I used a photograph taken by Elaine Cross of a dusk winter scene she took while at the Moors in the UK. It was a fabulously cold and snowy scene. The oil pastels were a perfect medium for this scene – I posted the painting here before, here it is if you haven’t seen it.
I been gone for a several days, celebrating Thanksgiving holiday and taking a small break from my blog. I’m back and have missed reading everyone’s posts – I’ll be catching up over the next few days.
Thank you to all my blogging friends – I have much to be grateful for. My thoughts are with you as we enter into the holiday season, however you celebrate – best wishes to you and yours. Mary
Oil Pastels by Mary 
Mary well done well deserved an award for it special light, I bet they give each month the Mary first award and next one get the first award… In my counting that is second. well done please give them a chance.
So funny Doron ~ but seriously, thank you so much. Appreciate your thoughtful comments! Time to get back to painting a new and interesting subject.
Big time congrats, Mary! A wonderful Thanksgiving present and a very well deserved one: I loved that painting and am very glad that it got publicly recognized. Well done! 🙂
Thank you Stefano for your kind comment – this was a nice surprise!
I am glad i poped up for a minute. Congrats Mary! This award is well deserved! xoxoxox
Thanks Patricia!
I knew it! Gongratulations!!! Well deserved 🙂 And welcome back!
Thanks again Calee – so glad I’m back, missing just a couple of days on here sets you back doesn’t it?
I knew it!! Congratulations!!! Well deserved 😀
Thanks Calee!
Mary, Your work always amazes me. This piece in white is particularly stunning! Congratulations!!
Thank you Linda – always so generous, means a lot and is very much appreciated!
A hauntingly beautiful painting, the light is fabulous. (And I know what it’s like to get behind on blogging. I’m digging myself out of a big hole!) Take care.
So nice to see you again Elisa – appreciate where you are coming from. Thanks so much for your nice comments!
Congratulations! 😀
Thank you Jackie!
So well deserved!! Congratulations 🙂 it’s beautiful!
Thanks Maria for your beautiful words.
Congratulations! Your award is well deserved! Annie
Thank you Annie, appreciate your kindness!
Congratulations! This is a phenomenal use of white in a painting…..
Thanks Leslie – it’s like sea foam, sand and the sky. The white colors become something totally different and yet they speak “white” to us. Appreciate your comment!
Congratulations, Mary!!! You totally deserved it! 🙂
Thanks Francesca for your lovely words – always appreciate it!
with a bright blue colander in the window, and a hole cut in the bottom of that colander, and a white usb stick poking thru that hole, i am connecting to a cell phone tower about 5 kilometers away! without the colander, i would not have been able to view the beautiful image!!!!
congratulations! you are so talented and so very deserving of this honor!
lisa/z
Are you serious, lol, that is some serious apparatus that you have to work with to use the internet. Unbelievable – you should write a book! Thank you Z for your never-ending support and encouragement, means a lot coming from you! Have a great evening.
Congratulations Mary! The reward is much deserved for this lovely painting.
Thank you so much for your nice comments, I really appreciate it!
Congratulations! Your painting is truly beautiful!
Thank you Madhu for your kind comment!
Well done, Mary. And well deserved, it’s a lovely painting.
Thanks Cara, appreciate it!
Congratulation, Mary. Your brush strokes have the Midas touch.
Thanks Ariel’s Prospero – means a lot!
Congratulations!
Thank you!!
Stunning! I always have a soft spot for snow paintings and this one is really delicate in its nuance
Thank you so much! I love white-outs something very mysterious about them. Thanks ~
Congratulations! A lovely painting and welcome back!
Thank you Ann Christine – means a lot!
So well deserved, my dear Mary!!! Congratulations!!!!!! 🙂 xxx
Welcome back! [I missed you too!] 🙂
Thanks Marina – appreciate it. Oh my I was really behind in my blog – finally caught up. See you soon!
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Ohhh love this!!
I so understand you, Mary! I have so many things to do lately that I can’t paint as much as I want to (Ahhh I hate that). And of course, when I post my drawings and paintings, I don’t always have the time to answer all the comments and visit my friends’ blogs… Please we want longer days!! lol
Hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving.
We did, thanks Cha – and you? Hope it was all good eats and company. I’m learning how to bake bread, five loaves – the jury is still out. The last one, was better than the others – but a long ways to go. Thanks very much for your beautiful comment!
No, I didn’t. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in France. But food is really important here too.
Hmmm bread!! 😀 I’m trying to eat less bread but it’s really hard. lol
My sister used to live in Paris, was so much fun when we visited her. Cha – listen I hear you about the bread, butter (can’t forget that) and calories, that’s why I’ll eat a piece and then pass on the rest. But you live in an area of serious baguettes, it would be very hard for me to resist the smell. Have a wonderful evening!
A great light in this painting:)
Thank you very much for your nice comment!