Photoshop Challenge - Day 4

I actually did have a plan before I got started on today's challenge, but let me be honest and say it didn't work.  At all. Not even close. 

So, I went farther off track (because, trust me, nothing could possibly make it any worse), and then I added flames! (it was poetic at the time). By the end of my self-imposed time limit, instead of deleting the challenge and moving on with my life, I decided I kind of liked it! It's not something I would have done in the past (which is the entire point of these daily challenges). It's colorful, eye-catching (haha),  and bizarre enough to get a second glance. Like hiding tasteless vegetables in yummy cupcakes.  

​I'm giving myself browny points for submitting this atrocity instead of deleting it. :-) 

Eyepools of Purgatory

This was the daily challenge original to work with: