Well here's another one of those, I guess, DA's in the camera. Nice I guess but I do not know if the painterly effect is what I would have used to take a picture of a subject in a challenge whose theme is simplicity.
Technical: Most all images submitted fit the challenge. Exposure composition focus lighting all relatively good, though I feel the processing makes the background more present and makes it detract from the subject. Actually, the processing itself detracts from the subject as well.
Personal:I feel this would be much more compelling if at the very least the dog's eyes were unprocessed, but preferably if the whole thing were unprocessed.