NMQG June Challenge... Starry Night... Vincent and me

My Starry Night - Tania Denyer 2015

Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh 1888

The NMQG challenge for June was Starry Night.  The moment I heard the words I thought of Vincent Van Gogh and driving home from the meeting his images were painted in my mind.  I thought it would be too easy and I did not want to do what I thought everyone else was doing. I searched as many starry night images as I could but as you will see in the pictures below, it was all in vain.  Vincent had taken over and there was nothing I could do about it.

Looking at the finished piece now, it looks like I had the original beside me the entire time.  I didn't, but clearly my brain had taken it all in.

I had several blue squares already cut from another project... who knows when

I sewed them in rows... pretty much spontaneously

And then cut them all up again

And sewed them together once more... don't bother asking, if you don't quilt, you don't get it

Cut free form leaves from the black fabrics

Round stars... like itty bitty suns, which really is what they are

Something like this... I was ready to applique and quilt on my longarm

OK so the plan was to start quilting, stop take a few pics, and finish...
but once I started, well you have heard it here before

I wrote Starry Night in quilting at the bottom... the binding cut it off but no matter, this is play after all...
see if you can find the 2015

Funny how an artist living in the late 19th century in southern France saw in his night sky what I see when I look up through the trees at the stars on a northern Ontario summer night, over a hundred years and more later.  Pretty cool, wouldn't you say?

Starry Night Over The Rhone - Van Gogh 1888

As for how modern this piece is... I am undecided but will appreciate the thoughts of my NMQG friends on this.