Art Journaling-November-Week #4-Contrasts In Art-Colors & Tones-This Girl In On Fire

*Final Challenge For November...I Think These Challenges Have Been My Favorite Month Since I Started Doing These Monthly Muse Challenges Quite A Few Months Ago Now...This Month Has Allowed Me To Further My Creativity In Ways That I Hadn't Discovered Before...Each Week Was A Welcomed Challenge For Me...Opening Up My Mind To The Possibilities To New Ways to Create Layouts With More Impact In So Many Different Ways...Thank You!!!

*This Challenge Specifically Is About Contrasts In Color/Tone With A Brash Bit Of Impact...As Opposed To Blending Things In(Which I Do A Lot Of)...Either Way...I Wanted To Highlight This Lion Photo In A More Artsy Way By Creating More Layers Of Contrasting Colors Within The Lion's Mane Etc & Contrasting Textures/Tones...Once I Achieved The Result With The Lion That I Wanted...I Built The Layout From There...I Added A Background Paper With Triangles & Blended In 2 Other Papers Also & Applied Various Effects To Achieve The Highlighting Of The Triangles...After This I Knew I Wanted To Add Fire But Not Just Any Fire...Fire Shaped Like Triangles To Correlate/Contrast With The Triangles In The Background Paper...With The Fire Pieces Having Similar Colors But Having More Contrast & Impact With Applied Effects & Textures & Tones...The Next Step Was The Rather Large WA In Once Again Similar Colors To Our Bright Lion...But I Still Felt There Was Something Missing...So I Applied Some "Messy Marvin" Pieces To The Back Of The Lion To Give More Impact & Texture...With A More White Background & It Gave The Impact I Wanted Right Away...So Great!...But Still Not Quite Right...I Added An Additional Paper In Behind To Give More Pop But Also To Ground The WA Even More & Then Adding An Additional Black Layer Version Of The Existing Colored WA To Achieve The Proper Impact I Was Searching For...Pop!...Just What I Had Imagined In My Head...Great! But It Still Needed Something...More WA!...To Give Focus To The Subject Matter & To Point Out That This Layout Was Currently Made Based On Current Events in My Life Right Now...I Also Liked The Contrast Of The Soft Tones Of The WA Verses The More Textured & Bright Tones Of The Lion & The Rather Large WA At The Bottom...And Then I Added The Round Flairs To Fill In The Open Spaces & Give Contrast To The Triangles,The Rectangle Photo & The Square Layout...Finally Finishing The Layout Design...

*For My This Girl Is On Fire Layout-I Used:

*Reality Bites/Turning It Around/Life Is An Adventure-Collab-The Lilypad-Lynn Grieveson
*Messy Marvin Vol.7-Elements-Amy Wolff(1)
*A Little Damaged Vol.6-Paper Pack-Amy Wolff(1)