Danger Amidst Beauty | "Talent Tuesdays" in FreeCompliments Community

I'd like to share with you another project for "Talent Tuesdays" titled "Danger Amidst Beauty". My theme consists of a mixed media art design that shows innocence in the midst of an undetected danger.

While allowed to play in a nearby forest otherwise thought to be relatively free from danger, children romp and climb among the beautiful flowers and strange trees that captivate their attention.

In designing my mixed media art project, I first utilized a stable diffusion program to produce a diffusion image. The text input does seem to match the image output, but I was a bit puzzled by the color choice. Strange branches seem to be woven throughout the gelatin ball and connected to the tree's roots. A lone string appears to be protruding from the top of the ball. Ultimately, I loved the image's background colors in the forest.

Below are my steps:

My scene consists primarily of the stable diffusion image that served as the background. Since my theme is a forest setting with children who are surrounded by danger, I needed a monster sufficient enough to be scary. For that image, I located a free-sourced image that fit perfectly for the role.

The children images were the easiest to obtain as I located other free-sourced photos. I decided on three different groups of kids, one group is playing contently while the other is curious and decides to explore. A lone girl rests of the forest bed.

Finally, my pure fractals I created the advanced version of the fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X, lent fullness to the other flowers in the forest.

^{Face filled with horror ~ Fantasy children peering through portal ~ Children holding hands - Contributed to the #LIL by @adncabrera ~ Child sitting down - Contributed to the #LIL by @adncabrera ~ Pink Vein Petunia flower - Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex ~ Inflorescence of Salvia farinacea flowers - Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex ~ Purple Round Flower - Contributed to the #LIL by @drydia ~ Pure fractal titled "Purple Flower Stem" ~ Pure fractal titled "Purple Flower Array" ~ Pure fractal titled "Woven Flower 1"}

Blending all mixed media is accomplished with my design program, Canva. Below are my procedures in which I added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, resizing, and repositioning items as needed.

• To a blank, white canvas, I added the diffusion forest image;

• Added the face filled with horror; then resized and positioned it inside the diffusion gelatin ball, ensuring I layered it behind and reduced the transparency to appear a if it's floating;

• Added the various flowers; resized; flipped, and repositioned them to fit the fill the canvas in a vertical position;

• Added my pure fractals. One of them, "Woven Flower1" I used to surround the gelatin ball to create a magical effect as though the children were about to step into a portal. I feel it worked perfectly; and

• Finally, added the children in various positions on the forest bed. For one group, I decided to have them explore the gelatin ball. The photo with a boy and girl climbing a ladder was perfect.