A Million Moons

A large orange-red planet with a heavily cratered, ringed surface occupies the upper left, connected by an arcing string of small moons and asteroids that sweeps across the dark sky toward a radiant burst of golden light at upper right. The foreground is an icy, pitted lunar-like terrain rendered in pale blue-white.

Thick, encrusted paint builds up the cratered surfaces in relief, while the sky behind is worked in deep blues, violets and reds flecked with starlight. The golden burst is applied in sharp radiating strokes that pull the eye across the canvas, giving the whole scene a glowing, otherworldly, dreamlike expanse.