your work is absolutely stunning, i love your use of color and your subject matter. 

 Love it dude.

first sencond and third. Epic.

 My god that's stunning.

Grats on the triple win! I've seen the three and they're all great!

Congrats on the triple win! All three are great, but something about this one.. a tight cluster of foliage and trees just feels cozy somehow.

Remarkable, I wish I could do the same.

 Good ;D

 wow So Beautiful Might as well Say

U HAVE THE FIRST PLACEE    

Lovely trees

I just love it. 

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 Interesting color use. The water looks awfully rough though. Also I like the purple in the trees, it's neat.

Pixel power! I like.

Way to stick it to everyone who had gripes about the restrictions.

 Impressive. Particulary about the design of the island.

Beautiful, but the purple in the trees is distraction/odd. This reminds me of the film: Totoro, which I saw on TV few days back. Also, there could be a little more clouds up in the sky. If not, then atleast move the clouds upper. Great art!

Great piece!

I prefer this version too. The edit feels a little too in your face, however the vibrancy is very nice.

 Love either one. The linked image fits your description better.

I love it.

I prefer this version, but I think the version you linked to might be closer to what you describe.  Though I think something between the two would work the best.  In the linked to version I feel that every think is too saturated, and its a bit much.  However it is more interesting with the use of reds in the shadows rather than purples.  I think if you made the darker areas in the version posted on here more saturated and reder and leave the light areas as they are it would be interesting.

nice depth on the tree, stand out a lot.

I do feel the sky and clouds flattens the image, the tree is nicely executed but that thing bothers me, of course that's just personal.

You nailed it.

I prefer this version, but the updated version agrees with your description: warm tones are nice for sure, but the sky and sea are too garish.

The orange is orange and the dark red is crimson in the updated palette, but the warm purple is brown (#b54c12, #591703 and #7a302d respectively) I think that #454506 is a bit too highly contrasted; #54631a in the gallery piece is better imo.

All hex codes aside, this is great! I love the way that you managed to get such a range of foliage colours in there :)

schön!

 Yes, the colors of the one currently in the gallery look more faded.

very nice effect,i like it!  

Really nice with the "flat" colors. I like it a lot :)