Julio PDN Pics

Hey all, I just wanted to thank everyone that views my blog over the years, it's been quite a ride and I appreciate the fact that people look and see what I've been up to. Honestly this blog doesn't just showcase my art, but also motivates me to make more since I know some people out there may want to see more. I wanted to let you all know that I've hit over 25,000 views across many different countries over the more than 15 years of having this blog. I know it may not be a lot of views by the world's standards, but for me it's a lot and I appreciate the fact that people come and at least take a look. If you'd like, you can leave a comment of your favorite types of work or your favorite colors, and I can try making something of what you like or with those colors next. I do apologize for not having an image this month, my energy is not like it used to be, but I'll try to have something next month. Again, I appreciate you all and I hope this year ends on a ...

Fitting title for the first post in 2025, after about half the year has gone. Here in the northern hemisphere it is also getting sunnier and warmer, so once again, fitting for this. You can imagine if you've been a loyal reader/watcher of this blog that the title of the post is also the title of the image I'm going to post, so without further to say, I give you Hello Sunshine. Started this one a bit different and used Frosted Glass and Dents instead of my classic Gaussian Blur with both the orange and the darker blue colors. I then added a splash of light blue and yellow to give it a bit more of a sunshine look. I honestly didn't know what to expect with this image since I wanted a brighter image, but not overbearing. I also didn't know what to call it, then when looking at the finished product the song  Hello Sunshine by Mercy River  (which I listened to this album a lot while I was in Spain) came to my head, hence the image name. I hope you enjoyed this installment an...

I've been getting bad about posting, but hopefully the images have been worth the wait. Work and the home life have been taking up a lot of energy, so I haven't been able to make as much art at the same pace as before, but glad I've been getting things out there here and there this year. This one is titled Interdimensional Rift. This image is interesting since I typically start with some color on the canvas, but I instead started with some red gradients. I found that it made a pretty cool design when I applied the Radial Blur effect, so I continued with that with the blue color. I then applied Gaussian Blur on a new layer and dents to add some texture, then on a duplicated layer, I applied more Radial Blur and used the lighten blend mode. I did this more or less for both colors, then I flattened it and copied the flattened image, undid the flattening, and added the full image to a new layer. I then applied Polar Inversion on a duplicated layer of the full image, and then ap...

Hey everyone, it’s been a long while since I’ve been on here to post a new image. My personal life has gotten very busy and I had to step away for a while in order to continue to be there for my family. Anyway, I’m sure you’re itching to see the new stuff I’ve been up to, and to start off, here is an image that is the main part of a 4 monitor HD image called Somber Rage. I have a four monitor setup at work now, and I wanted to make an image that covered all four of those, so I got working on that. The image you see above is just a piece of that, but you can see the rest of the pieces below. I started with some colors that I liked from an album artwork of a music group that I like, and went from there. I added color on one side of the image which is the red color, manipulated it greatly until it filled up that side using my classic Gaussian Blur, Dents, and Radial Blur effects, then adding some Radial Extruder and Polar inversion after combining, flattening, and copying the full image t...

I’m back with another work, and I’ve been getting inspiration from album artworks on the colors to use since some of them just look nice. This one is no different than Somber Rage in that sense, since I used colors from an album artwork to start with, and by that I mean I used two colors and went from there. After some time, I got the end result called Ocean Spray. I again used colors of an album artwork that I like and have been wanting to use those colors for a while. Again I used the classic effects I typically use which are Gaussian Blur, Dents, and Radial Blur, but then I added a Motion Blur in there. I then also flattened the image, copied it, and added that to a new layer, and did Polar Inversion as well as Tile Reflection. The layer blend modes I used throughout are Additive, Lighten, Color Dodge, and Reflect. Additive and Lighten typically brighten the colors, while Color Dodge brings out some of the brighter sections of the image. Reflect then also dampens the image a bit, so...

Hello everyone, it's been a while, but I'm back with more art in the coming months. If anyone is an avid viewer of my blog, I'm sorry I took a while off, but I'm happy to say that I feel pretty decent again. Art is typically my therapeutic realm since I use my brain in a different sense than normal, but my job for the last year has definitely taken a toll on me, so I had to step away for a while. I'm back now with a new image titled Watermelon Tourmanline. Since the company I work at changed their name and logo, I decided I’d use the logo colors for this. I also darkened the colors so that they are not the exact colors so as to not run into any issues. I started with some of the green color on the left and applied my classic Gaussian Blur, Dents, and Radial Blur, then did the same thing on the salmon side. I then flattened the image after taking the black background out, copied the image, un-flattened it, then pasted the full image on a new layer. At that point, I a...