What if you could paint with fire?
Artist Steve Spazuk used to be a traditional painter, until 11 years ago, when he had a lucid dream about using an unconventional tool: soot.
Now he creates incredible works of art from the soot left behind from candle smoke.
Steve runs a burning candle over paper before using stencils and brushes to etch in the fine details. He creates everything from intricate portraits of people to highly detailed birds sitting atop hand grenades.
"I was a very shy kid, often watching the clouds in the sky, looking for shapes or observing the pattern in the knots on my bedroom wooden door," Steve said in an interview with yatzer.com.
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to watch a short film by Patrick Peris depicting Steve Spazuk's careful fire painting process.
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1. Steve works on his series "Ornithocide," in which he juxtaposes live and dead birds with manmade weapons.
Click here to read more about the artistic intentions behind "Ornithocide."
2. Working with fire can be a painstaking process, but the results are spectacular.
3. His imaginative use of smoke and fire gives his work a dreamlike quality.
4. The finished pieces are hauntingly beautiful.
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