Fire in the Sky

Every so often, when the solar conditions are just right, the clear northern night skies will reward us with a spectacular light show. This light show can happen anywhere or anytime of the year but when it reflects off the water or a snowy landscape it is doubly amazing. Painting the Northern Lights seems to be a natural extension of my nocturnal paintings series. 

Here is the scientific explanation -

The Northern Lights (aurora borealis) are shafts or curtains of colored light visible on occasion in the night sky caused by collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter into the earth's atmosphere. These particles are attracted to the poles by the magnetic fields found there and react with gases in the atmosphere, causing the gases to glow. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light, to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow. 

Fire in the Sky 2, 5x7 oil nocturne SOLD

Fire in the Sky 1, 5x7 oil nocturne SOLD

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Thanks for visiting with me. Stay well and warm.

Celene

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