Mystical Forest

Our assignment was to create a design that portrayed several emotions and feelings or just one.  I'll let you decide for yourself which feeling is associated with this image.

Actually, this image looked really flat and boring until I decided to put a gradient as the background.  What I like about this gradient is how it makes you feel that even if you're in this forest that might frighten you, the light (or white) gives you hope and courage and you no longer believe that the dots and swirls are or bad magic.