Street banner design competition

It's been a exciting, frustrating and disappointing weeks. But also a very good experience.

When I found "Call for Artist" for the street banner competition, I was SOOO excited. I submitted the same competition 3 years ago and ended up the 2nd place. So my design has never flown in  the  Squamish sky.

More over, there were several confusion for me to submit this competition. First I received the old guidance for submission and that wasn't effective for this time. But I recognized it long after I've sent my submission.

Even my submission wouldn't go through to SAC by e-mail as they wanted me to do. So I tried to send it from 3 different account including from my husband's e-mail account. But never accepted. Each one came back.

At that point I was panic. Then I decided to follow the older guidance for submission and sent my original design paper to SAC knowing the newer guidance said "don't send in your original design".

Then I could contact the chair person of SAC and she was kindly accepted my submission to her own e-mail account. This time it went though. STRANGE?????

Yesterday was the day the winner should get the contact from SAC or DOS. No one contacted me, of course. My dreaming day is over...... Well, it was something wrong at the begin with.

The 4th painting of sunset from my window

I painted the first "sunset painting from my window" more than 2 years ago. I had so much trouble to make bright clouds. I wasn't so happy for the result but I couldn't make it any better.

The second one was painted last year. I used vivid orange almost whole canvas. Because I couldn't make nice soft orange clouds that I wanted to paint. But I liked it.

Then, I tried and tried and gave up several times and left it some time. Finally the 3rd one was done used rose violet colour. Titled "Rose Violet Sunset". I wanted to paint that beautiful soft purple clouds for long time and I think I did it. I liked this one very much.

After that, I wanted to try another orange sunset again. I had to repainted the canvas 3 times but I could finished it at last.

I don't think I'm going to paint sunset a little while.