Reflections #1, A Mixed Media Collaboration Contest: Results

Last Saturday, December 23rd was the closing date of my first ever contest, Reflections #1. It was a contest meant for mixed media and people could either fly solo or enter as a team, where one partner provided some form of artwork, and the other provided a piece of writing. I started announcing this upcoming contest for three weeks, to give people plenty of time to find partners, brainstorm and work together, and I was very excited to see the first entries appear on Thursday.

My co-judge, @sunravelme, and I hoped and prayed that you would all make our lives very, very difficult. I must admit, you all certainly did that much. It was not an easy thing to do, compare all your works, as they were all so different.

We decided not to do that, after all, but to rather judge each entry on its own merit. There were three things we looked for. A beautiful piece of art, a piece of great writing, and a connection between the two. Scores for these three items were given on a scale of one to ten, by the both of us individually, to ensure that we wouldn’t influence each other’s opinions. These scores were then tallied up to get to the final results.

_{Image courtesy of Bess-Hamiti via Pixabay}

Before I let you know who ended up winning, I’d like to thank each and every contestant for taking the time to create beautiful pieces for this contest.

An even bigger thank you goes to @tanglebranch and @plushzilla for their generous donations to the prize pool and to @sunravelme for helping me judge all of these entries. I was very happy to see our opinions were very similar and we didn’t have to fight for our winners.

I’m not sure I can take you on anyway, Sun. ;-)

OK. Here goes. The top 5 scores lay very close together, so it really was a tough call.

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The winners, receiving 18SBD, are:
@juliakponsford and @clayboyn with their entries Frequencies of Colors Bending (artwork) and Existence (poetry)

In second place and getting 11 SBD:
@jayna and @yurche with their entry Refracted Light (short story and drawing)

Third place was shared by three entries and all receiving 7 SBD:

@jonknight and @tajmikel with their entry Christmas Dreams (song lyrics and music)

@tanglebranch with her solo entry comic strip and drawing process)

And last but not least, @negativer and @morodiene with their entry Lacrimosa (poem and song)

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I take my hat off to everyone for taking on the challenge I presented you with, and hope to see you again in the next edition of Reflections. ;-)

Hugs

Tiny

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