Making the Background - 2

This lesson, I continued working on my background. My friend, Eliza looked at my background and sad that I should add some effects to the flames. So I experimented with different effects and at the end this one worked really well since the tone kind of matches the ice. After that, I asked Mr Powell how I could make it look like that the ice was melting. He played around for a while before telling me that liquify was probably the best option. So for the rest of the lesson, I used a small brush and tried to melt the ice as realistic as possible.