This entry is great . . .

Even in its incomplete form and with its flaws, I inevitably ended up voting for this because its original and epic enough for me. The small amount of detail work on the temple shows to me that with enough time this could have been great.

*Your biggest problem here was the canvas size. If you had made it much smaller (small enough to complete in one week) you probably would have scored a ribbon*

Thanks for the comments. I didn't have the time to really polish this unfortunatly. As for the colors I was going for a red rock color, not so much a sunset. I'll probably come back to this another time to clean it up.

Only in the leap from the lion's head will he prove his worth...

 Ccol piece , but i think the contrast in your pallete is a little too big

 i like the temple part but the mountains in the middle and the rock on the right look a little rushed, in fact the rocks on the right don't read very well and I couldn't figure  out what it was at a first glance..

also Sai us right about the sunset feel from the orange tones

I like this piece but i think it needs some more love =)

All that orange tone gives the impression of a sunset/sunrise. I don't think a blue sky fits well with the rest of the piece.