Fireworks Bursting In Night Sky Over City Coloring Page
Three shells break open high above a low city skyline, their trails drawn as hundreds of fine radiating lines.
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Three fireworks hang in the upper half of this page, each one drawn as a dense burst of straight lines radiating from a single point, with the longest trails tipped by small dashes where the sparks are falling away. They overlap slightly, so the middle burst sits in front of the other two. Far below, a city runs across the bottom of the sheet as a simple outline: flat roofs, a few setbacks, one building with a grid of windows, and a single tall tower with a spire rising above the rest.
The bursts are drawn in a lighter weight than the skyline, which is worth noticing before you start. They will print faint, and that actually helps, because it lets you lay color over them without fighting a heavy outline.
A useful approach: fill the sky dark and leave the trails untouched. It takes patience and nothing else gives you night.
The colors in a firework come from metal salts. Strontium burns red, barium green, copper blue. Blue is the one that eludes manufacturers, because the compound that makes it breaks down at the temperature the shell burns at.
