So, when I did my last autumn spread I showed this starter fractal that Apophysis 2.09 served me to start with ...
... and I said it would return ... I've patiently waiting for mid-December to share this, and patiently working with the concept since mid-November ... fractal variations and heavy palette work ... you can't just paint on what you want but you have to take the whole palette, so finding just the right blend out of Apophysis 2.09's 700 palettes and then working inside the sliding gradients of each to find just the right blend ... it is more like making a wreath out of a series of Christmas lights that want to throw a few extra colors out on you have have the time, and if you look carefully, you'll see blue and purple and others peeking through although they are largely constrained!
One kind of palette work gives us the wreath above, but you know some people like wreaths with a little more snow in them ...
Another ring-like variation on the same theme, with red, white, and green ...
... and one tending toward more snow, yet again ...
More ringlet wreaths, compounding on the rings before as only fractal art can ... this one reminded me of the commercial for the electric light show at Disneyland I only saw on the commercials but never got to go see...
... and this one did too, though more to the golden side ...
Off in a slightly different direction ... this one has snowflakes added (owing to the structure of the fractal)!
... this one has more read with a little gold and silver ...
... this one more gold ...
... but, no collection of wreaths would be complete without the ultimate throwback to modernity (just like reviving fractal art in 2020): a pure silver wreath!