BLUE LIGHTNING STORM HOW TO
BLUE LIGHTNING STORM FULL

Start at the top of the tree and stamp very lightly to create the smaller branches on top. Use the tip of your brush to stamp the branches. I used the very tip of my brush to do these vertical lines. Using your #12 flat brush and turquoise blue, paint three trunks of the small trees in the distance. Using your #12 Flat Brush and titanium white, paint left and right horizontal strokes on the water. On the lower right part of the mountain, I blended mars black in with the blue. You can even add a bit of texture in the mountain by painting long wavy strokes while blending the white in with the blue. Also I made the hills into two hills by painting a diagonal line.īlend the blue and the white in so it transitions smoothly. To get different values of lights in the mountains, use titanium white. Then paint the entire shape of the mountain in with the ultramarine blue. It starts out high on the left and dips down to the right. Using your #12 flat brush and ultramarine blue, paint the outline of the mountain. Paint the entire area solid under the horizon line. Paint the water using just turquoise blue and your 3/4″ flat brush. Step 3 Paint The WaterĬompletely rinse your brush.

Don’t blend the paint too much because everything will start to turn the same color. There are areas that may be lighter or darker.įill the entire area above the horizon line (but leaving some white space for the mountains). Imagine this background as a round downpour.

BLUE LIGHTNING STORM FULL

Paint using the full width of the brush going in a sort of diagonal/ curved directions. We are going to be painting the rain background. Load your 3/4″ flat brush in all three of those colors. Load your palette with ultramarine blue, titanium white & turquoise blue. Step By Step Directions: Step 1 Draw The Horizon Lineĭraw the horizon line using a T-Square ruler on the bottom of the canvas. Watch this gorgeous video by Paul M Smith which shows Red Sprite lightning from the 2019 storm season in Oklahoma.Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Storm Color Palette Note: It may be difficult to capture a sprite on camera as the flash is fleeting. Sprites pop into view roughly once for every 200 lightning strokes. And then try to keep your eyes above the clouds (not on the clouds) while ignoring the lightning flashes.

Give your eyes 20 minutes to adapt to darkness.

The storm should be in the distance (100 to 200 miles away), so clouds do not block the sky and you have an unobstructed view. Ideally, the storm is moving out of the region or along a distant horizon so that you can see above the cloud tops.

There can’t be much light pollution which would wash out sprites. Of course, the skies need to be very dark and clear.

The thunderstorms needs to during the nighttime.

June is the peak month for these sort of storms, but sprites can happen any time during a strong storms with intense lightning at ground level.

You need big thunderstorms, which are more common during spring and summer.

They aren’t actually rare but they’re just not commonly seen because no one’s looking for them!

BLUE LIGHTNING STORM HOW TO

How to See a Red SpriteĪ red sprite is the easiest TLE to see. Rather, these flashes happen in the Earth’s mesosphere, up to 50 miles high in the sky. All of Earth weather occurs in the troposphere (4 to 12 miles above us). Here’s an interesting fact: Lightning sprites and TLEs do not happen in our normal thunderstorms with rain clouds. Image: Look over the top of thunderstorms to see sprites and other flashes. They are small white spikes of light that flash for a microsecond from the top of a large thundercloud’s anvil.

Gnomes-The tiniest and quickest flashes are gnomes.

Like Elves, Trolls are an abbreviation: Transient Red Optical Luminous Lineament.

Trolls-These red spots pop near cloud tops after the flash of an extremely strong red sprite.

Actually, the name is an abbreviation of the disk’s real name- Emissions of Light and Very low frequency from E MP Sources.

Elves-Elves are brief disks of dim light that appear around 60 miles high in the atmosphere.

They are quite rare and usually can only be seen from airplanes.

Blue Jets-A blue jet is a dim blue light that rises like a quick puff of smoke above heavy hailstorms.

They often occur in clusters above the troposphere and most frequently seen in the Midwest.

Sprites-The most common TLE is a luminous reddish-orange flash directly above large thunderstorms. Sprites flash a fraction of a second after strong lightning strokes, soaring up almost 60 miles high.

So, if you look high in the sky, well above over the thunderstorms, what can you see?

Different TLEs flash at different levels in the sky.

Blue lightning storm