My thanks to everyone who voted for me. This painting was the winner in The Color Purple Contest. This is a painting I created from a photo taken by flaminia.nobili who is on Flickr she is the assistant to the popes photographer and she attends Venice's Carnival every year and takes wonderful, colorful photo's in which she is very nice and allows me to use in my paintings. The original photo can be viewed here Purple Carnival http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaminiano bili/1856405642/in/set- 72157601969786777/ This painting is the 11th painting in my Carnival Series. I choose this image because of the colors they are my favorite combinations and I thought I could do the image justice. Original SOLD 30 X 30 X 2 Purple Carnival Mask Copyright 2010 PSOVART The images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without the written permission of Patty Vicknair