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Fire Paintings: Artist Draws With Flames And Soot
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Fire Paintings: Artist Draws With Flames And Soot

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Steven Spazuk is a Canada-based artist who uses candle soot to create elegant and beautiful paintings. After depositing soot on his art medium with a candle or torch, he etches lines and patterns in the soot with pencils and feathers, thus creating his unique artworks.

Though Spazuk has spent the last 14 years developing and perfecting his soot painting technique, the creation of his fire paintings always has an element of random spontaneity and improvisation.

More info: spazuk.comYoutube | Facebook (h/t: lustik, colossal)

When asked by Bored Panda about how he came up with this creative idea to paint with soot, Spazuk said; “The truth is that I dreamt of it. I was in a gallery (in my dream) and was looking at that black and white painting of a landscape and I knew that it was done with fire and completely understood the technique.

In the morning when I woke up I remembered that dream and started to experiment. The first attempt at doing a work of art with fire did not work out very well. Sure enough the first paper I put the flame on caught fire. I soon realized I had to use a cardboard paper, one that was thicker and more coated than mat paper.

It was then that I immediately knew that drawing with soot would work. It was an instant love affair with the medium. All my ideas related to soot came in those first weeks [in 2001]. The imprints, the nomograms, etc… I had a great field of work to explore, and I was aware of all the potential ahead of me. I never stopped since…

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The biggest challenge, in the beginning, was to keep the drawings intact. It took me a lot of testing with fixatives and spray varnish. Now I can say that I am mastering the spray varnish. You need a really fine spray and you need to shoot at a certain distance.

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had both my hands on my face! Eyes Wide open! WOWieeeee ♥

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KelseyLeigh
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check out Diane Victor South African Artists, Who also paints with fire, she creates some beautifully airy and mystical images

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SabrinaBotticeli
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is amazing !!! I love the combination of black and white In the art. So beautiful. !!

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darkphoenix
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I need a feather to do my ravens......and hawks O.O. omg a genius idea, soot, and fire can do amazing things

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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful detail. I have never heard of using soot as a medium. Fascinating!

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DorisCornago
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Using found things makes his paintings natural - but the best part is the whimsical way and meticulous with which he paints. Priceless!

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PinkBubble
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had both my hands on my face! Eyes Wide open! WOWieeeee ♥

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KelseyLeigh
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check out Diane Victor South African Artists, Who also paints with fire, she creates some beautifully airy and mystical images

54049d6321db0 avatar
SabrinaBotticeli
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is amazing !!! I love the combination of black and white In the art. So beautiful. !!

550038d73cc47 avatar
darkphoenix
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I need a feather to do my ravens......and hawks O.O. omg a genius idea, soot, and fire can do amazing things

leighann.hargreaves1 avatar
Leigh-AnnHargreaves
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful detail. I have never heard of using soot as a medium. Fascinating!

doris.cornago avatar
DorisCornago
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Using found things makes his paintings natural - but the best part is the whimsical way and meticulous with which he paints. Priceless!

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