Hello everyone!


**Thank you, everyone, for the great entries!!!!!!!!!** It was not easy but the entries were fantastic! 

Our invited judge was a great person **@snooway**. She is a constant participant and often winner of Artchallenge. I am very thankful for agreeing to be a judge of this challenge. 
 
**Participants should give an interpretation to a surreal painting of Robert Dowling Jr.**

![enter image description here](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xI5yN5pRiyY/WbfvK-Zl6mI/AAAAAAAAYrQ/-fGkpcYGXZgGAQEKz_CnpqFc2bqVOljTwCLcBGAs/s0/j7mwQKL0V5o.jpeg "j7mwQKL0V5o.jpeg")
[Robert Dowling Jr.](http://proba3-proba3.blogspot.ru/2013/09/khudozhnik-syurrealist-robert-dowling-jr.html?m=1)

**AND THE WINNERS ARE:**

**THE THIRD PRIZE (20 TRAIL + 2 SBD) GOES TO:** @davor27
***@snooway 's comment:***  *Davor27 is a creative interpretation of the painting*


[ARTQUEST-TRAIL#21 (ARTchallenge) Entry 1 "LOST LOVE"](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@davor27/artquest-trail-21-artchallenge-entry-1-lost-love)

> LOST LOVE💔
> 
> Time has passed. The hot month of August is gone, just like you did in
> it, and the hand is taken to September to make way for autumn in
> October.
> 
> The leaves fall with the help of the wind, rocking to the ground.
> 
> I observe this ritual, sitting on a tree ..... a ..... another ....
> and the floor begins to cover a carpet of warm colors.
> 
> Something similar happens in my head. Your memories sway, appear and
> disappear, but still there ... I think, plunged in my loneliness of
> the moment, the people I know, the one I've met and the one I'll meet
> in the future ...... nobody like you ....
> 
> I imagine to have you in front and to see how I explain that I think
> to you, that I miss you, that I miss you ... you would not believe me
> ...
> 
> I pick up my phone with the intention of writing you, knowing about
> you but .... the pulse accelerates me and my hand shakes ... so I step
> back and I keep it in my pocket.
> 
> I would love to see you just once. It would be enough for me to take a
> short time to fall to the ground.
> 
> To see in your eyes that you have already forgotten me, to see that it
> never becomes important in your life, to see that you hardly remember
> me ...
> 
> That would help that in my mind there was no autumn, there was no
> cold, without you ...
> 
> I'm still sitting on this tree. I hug myself dreaming that it's your
> arms who do it ... I sigh, as if that puff of yearning comes to you
> ...
> 
> I lose my eyes among the trees that dance to me and sing to the sound
> of the shy autumn wind ... All around me are YOU.
> 
> I decide to get up and walk ... kicking the dry leaves of the road,
> like wanting to find a trace, a sign, a clue that leads me to you, but
> it is useless.
> 
> I must let your memory pass as the seasons of the year pass. I must
> let you go from my mind as autumn is let go.
> 
> A station of nostalgia, memory, huddle, search for the heat of a kiss,
> a hug, a caress, a whisper ...
> 
> I keep walking until I lose myself on the horizon, ironically, as a
> road through life until I lose myself in you.


**THE SECOND PRIZE (30 TRAIL + 3 SBD) GOES TO:**@ir3k

***@snooway 's comment:***  *I like the references to his kind heart and the reference to baiting of the heart*

[ArtChallenge 21 - Soulmates](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@ir3k/artchallenge-21-soulmates)

> Yes, he is not handsome. He is not tall and he does not have a manly
> face. Lovely girls, passing him on the streets, turn away from him,
> they don't like to look at him.
> 
> And all the girls seem beautiful to him. How he wants to talk to one
> of them, looking into her beautiful eyes and charming face shining
> with youth! He so wants to see at his side the girl turning her
> graceful head, touching her bright long hair, smiling...
> 
> But he does not dare to approach the girl.
> 
> When he is sad, he finds serenity and tranquility in nature. He has a
> lifelong love of nature.
> 
> He can hike and climb for hours in any season. And he like to sit with
> a fishing rod for hours. Oh, if he could catch his beloved with his
> good heart, as with bait! How he would love her, care for her and
> protect her! His heart is full of inexhaustible goodness...
> 
> Will he be alone all his life? Will no one appreciate his kind heart?
> 
> He is very sad and does not know that the niece of the owners of old
> small house nearby has arrived. This lovely girl all her life does not
> dream of a rich handsome man, but of a good friend, a kind man who
> would love her and protect her.
> 
> He does not foresee that in two days he will meet this girl on the
> street and she will ask him for direction in an unfamiliar city.
> 
> And he will show the way and they will talk. They will really like
> each other and will start dating. And he will have a feeling of deep
> or natural affinity with her.
> 
> And they will always be together...


**THE FIRST PRIZE (50 TRAIL + 5 SBD) GOES TO**: @eternalsunshine

***@snooway 's comment:***  *Eternalsunshine addresses many of the elements in the painting and evokes the feeling of childhood*

[ARTCHALLENGE #21 entry](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@eternalsunshine/artchallenge-21-entry)

> This paint represents the innocence and conflicts of the childhood.
> There are 2 main things (among other) that characterizes most young
> child :
> 
> their natural capacity to be in their imagination their will/need of
> care from others and especially their need of their parents' or their
> bigger brother/sister's attention. Here, we can see this child is in
> his imagination since he is disguised, wearing a mask. He is sitting
> alone in a floating tree. We can see a big moon on the background
> which is the symbol of imagination/dreams.
> 
> Also, we can see the child is lonely and fishing for a heart i.e
> fishing for love and attention of his relatives. Is the fishing going
> well ? Does this child get all the attention it needs ?
> 
> In the tree, we can see an opened door which could be a nest, the
> parent's house for the child. He seemed to have stepped out of it so
> maybe he feels alone in its imagination and he is disappointed that
> nobody actually sees him ? Maybe he is looking for a partner to play
> with him in his world.

**CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!!** 

**THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR PARTICIPATING!!!**

**SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR JUDGE @snooway!!!!!**

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I already have interesting picture for ARTCHALLENGE #19 and it will differ from previous ones but I don't know about deadline as I might travel next week. But I plan to make announcement tomorrow. 

You can see the previous artchallenges here: 

[Winners of Artquest#20](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-20-announcement-invited-judge-whd) 10 participants 
[Winners of Artquest#19](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-19-announcement-invited-judge-is-a-talented-writer-and-a-wonderful-person-ezzy) 6 participants 
[Winners of Artquest #18](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-18-announcement-invited-judge-lpfaust) 20 participants
[Winners of Artquest #17](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-17-announcement-invited-judge-throughwindows-with-his-own-painting-for-interpretation) 6 participants
[Winners of Artquest #16](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-16-announcement-invited-judge-nature-sauvage) 4 participants
[Winners of Artquest #15](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-15-announcement-invited-judges-paolobeneforti-and-silviabeneforti)15 participants
[Winners of Artquest #14](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-14-announcement-invited-judge-ezzy) 24 participants
[Winners of ARTquest#13](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-13-announcement-invited-judge-lpfaust) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#12](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-12-announcement-invited-judge-ezzy) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#11](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-11-announcement-invited-judge-surpassinggoogle) 9 participants
[Winners of Artquest#10](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-10-announcement-invited-judge-looftee-we-can-no-longer-dream-we-are-dying) 13 participants
[Winners of Artquest#9](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-9-announcement-drawing-of-paolo-beneforti-invited-judges-paolo-and-silvia-beneforti) 10 participants
[Winners of Artquest#8](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artquest-8-announcement) 10 participants 
[Winners of Artchallenge#7](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@artquest-trail/winners-of-artchallenge-7-announcement) 6 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#6](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-6-new-theme-for-artchallenge-7-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this) 7 participants 
[Winners of Artchallenge#5](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-5-new-theme-for-artchallenge-6-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this) 8 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#4](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-4-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 9 participants 
[Winners of Artchallnege#3](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-3-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 11 participants
[Winners of Artchallenge#2](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-2-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 6 participants
[Winners of ARTchallenge#1 ](https://steemit.com/artchallenge/@aksinya/winners-of-artchallenge-1-new-theme-announcement-no-need-to-be-an-artist-or-an-art-expert-to-join-this-artchallenge) 14 participants


**EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!**


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