{"id":10269,"date":"2015-11-05T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:58:47","slug":"a-careful-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/11\/a-careful-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Careful Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spazuk.com\/fr\/home-spazuk.php\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Spazuk&#8217;s<\/a> artwork is pretty remarkable considering it is a slow and steady process that takes a careful burn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10270\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_1_AIE.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_1_AIE.png\" alt=\"Steven Spazuk_1_Art Is Everywere\" width=\"475\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_1_AIE.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_1_AIE-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos via Spazuk.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He creates incredible images through the process of burning paper and the smoke it creates. His portraits are collages assembled with many different burned smokey-square pieces of paper. They give the illusion of a photo-realistic, &#8220;Chuck Close-like&#8221; painting but with an alternative flare that you just &#8220;can&#8217;t put your finger on&#8221; &#8212; at first &#8212; until you know it actually is smoke that creates the effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_2_AIE.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_2_AIE.png\" alt=\"Steven Spazuk portraits featured on Art Is Everywere\" width=\"475\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_2_AIE.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_2_AIE-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?s=chuck+close&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Close<\/a> uses non-traditional methods to create his artwork as well. Fanny Fingerpainting is one of my favorites, originally created with his fingerprints!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fannyfingerpainting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fannyfingerpainting.jpg\" alt=\"fannyfingerpainting by Chuck Close via National Gallery of Art on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"320\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fannyfingerpainting.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fannyfingerpainting-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spazuk.com\/fr\/home-spazuk.php\" target=\"_blank\">Spazuk<\/a> has done his own painting of Chuck Close (far left in this image below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_3_AIE.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_3_AIE.png\" alt=\"Steven Spazuk portraits featured on Art Is Everywere\" width=\"475\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_3_AIE.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_3_AIE-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>Even Spazuk&#8217;s single images have a smokey, ethereal, diaphanous quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_4_AIE.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_4_AIE.png\" alt=\"Steven Spazuk artwork featured on Art Is Everywere\" width=\"475\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_4_AIE.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_4_AIE-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=1205&amp;sid=35023208\" target=\"_blank\">video on KSL.com<\/a> that shows his process and technique called fumage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Steven-Spazuk_5_AIE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10274 size-full\" 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I like this self-portrait below by Julius Brawley and its exquisite detailed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"reflections-refractions exhibit. Self Portrait by Julius Brawley via NPG","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/reflections-refractions.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1223,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/01\/photo-realistic-portraiture\/","url_meta":{"origin":10269,"position":2},"title":"Photo-Realistic Portraiture","author":"casart","date":"January 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't post any portrait photography in my last post because mostly Nature and animals were highlighted as the best pictures but I think portraiture is much harder to capture in photography. I find it interesting that this artist, Korin Faught, uses photography as part of her creative process to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Korin Faught via Juxtapoz Magazine","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/01\/060809_korin_faught_190.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1965,"url":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/06\/pop-ups-plus\/","url_meta":{"origin":10269,"position":3},"title":"Pop-Ups Plus","author":"casart","date":"June 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently saw notice for and exhibition called, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn, about pop-up books at The National Museum of American History. I've always enjoyed pop-up books, so I hope I can see this. The exhibit contains book from the Smithsonian Institutions' Library's Here's the NMAH's quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pop-up book, One Red Dot. 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