Time Manipulation

I will admit, I didn't really know what I wanted to do with this image. I just had a few minutes during lunch and my second break from work, that I just wanted to make some art, mostly for therapeutic purposes. I literally opened Paint.NET and looked at my canvas for a minute, and didn't really know what to do. I almost decided to forego the effort of creating something, but decided that I should do something rather than watch YouTube like I usually do. Here I give you the finished image called Time Manipulation.

I started off with Yellow on the left, then did the classic Gaussian Blur, Dents, and Radial Blur to get a nice background. I then decided to have the two contradicting Radial Blur layers visible to have it be like two C's with their backs against each other to see how that would turn out. I then did the same with green on the right. I then merged everything down after getting rid of the black background, copied it, and pasted it on its own layer.

I then did two Radial Extruders, one to show more green, and the other to show more yellow. I then blended them with Color Dodge, Reflect, and Glow. I then flattened it again, copied the flattened image, unflattened, and pasted the full image on its own layer again, but this time, blended it with Multiply and Color Burn after doing a Tile Reflection and Polar Inversion. I also brought the opacity down a bit to have it not be so overpowering, and to add some texture. I then added some yellow to the bottom left and top right corners with the initial effects here, but some tweaks in the Dents.

I hope you enjoy the image. I also hope that spring comes soon, but we shall see how things go. I wish I could manipulate time to make it come faster. Oh well, enjoy your day!