great entries for this weekly, well done everybody!

This is too good! 

Very Lovely

To me it even kinda looks like a japanese painting style, not just motive.

Looks like it was painted in oils.

Fantastic.

Waw, impressive!

Has a very serene feeling to it.

Nice job with the AA and colors.

Your anti-aliasing is boss. Great job :)

Cool scene, nice colors.

Impressive.

This tree is just perfect, great shading and color use.

first prize

Nice. Very painterly.

Very nicely done, especially the Japanses Maple/Acer leaves - very impressive

This piece has a great mood. Great color selection: warm with a hint of over-expossure. Thanks for sharing.

I adore the way you've drawn the tree in this :D

The colors and simplicity is quite lovely : )