Finished painting: Yellow night

I’ve had this canvas for 4 years, I painted a flower on it and hung it in my bathroom. Here’s what it used to look like:

I decided I wanted to paint over it because the colors are no longer ones that I want in my house. Granted, I love hot pink, but I’m married now and it’s such a femme color. Plus, it’s 24x24, twice the size of any of my other paintings, so I wanted to give it a go. I was inspired to paint another night sky, but I didn't want to use a classic blue/black sky. I wanted something very different. So I went with yellow/bronze. Below, you can see I used gears and other circles for planets, and some mosaic tiles for stars. I had a lot of fun with this one! 

finished, with the exception of some words at the bottom.

addition of words (in progress shot), before I put a light glaze over them.

detail shot. the gears were applied with decoupage, which is still white and drying here.

words detail. this is a departure from what I've been doing, using smaller messages, making them not the focus of the piece. I love what this says: Love is who we are.

light the way

another detail shot.

sky full of planets and stars.

more detail.