I wanted to do something with lots of jewel tones. Created entirely in Paint Shop Pro.

I fed an Apophysis render into Paint Shop Pro, and this is what came out …. I thought the original render looked like some interstellar cloud, but the result looked more like marble. So I combined the two for the title.

I took the fractal I used in Storms of Life and played with it, rotating, recoloring, adding layers, etc., and ended up with something that looks rather like a combination between a gravity well and a lightning storm.