Night pictures with light painting

I stumbled onto a new interest tonight.  I decided to try to take some pictures of the stars in the night sky and watched a few videos that shows how to do it.  Just to try out the techniques, I went into my backyard to shoot a few exposures.  I live in the city so I knew there was light pollution to deal with but I thought it would be good to get the basic understanding before attempting to drive to another location at a later date.  I'm actually quite pleased with how my first attempts came out but I do need to work on it some.

Here's a picture of the night sky from behind my house.

ISO 1600, F/11, 30 second shutter

But, what has me even more excited is the photos I took when I used light painting with a simple flashlight.  Here is a picture straight out of the camera with no editing when I was pointing the flashlight at the back of the house.

ISO 1600, F/11, 30 second shutter

In this image, I painted the house with an LED flashlight by pointing the light at the deck pergola for about 10 seconds and then pointing it at the house for about 20 seconds.