Artist creates beautiful nature scenes out of gunpowder, then sets it on fire

Just some painstaking artwork burning up, NBD.
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Artist creates beautiful nature scenes out of gunpowder, then sets it on fire
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Danny Shervin is a painter who has taken to using gunpowder as his material of choice to create incredibly detailed works of art. His original artwork is based in nature, with images of owls, deer and other woodland animals.

To share with the world the painstaking process of creating art with gunpowder, he has put together a Paint with Gunpowder YouTube.

As you can imagine, pushing and placing gunpowder to resemble landscapes isn't easy. As it says on his website, each painting takes several hours to finish.

So imagine our surprise when he finishes each art piece, only to put a lighter to it. That's right. He burns the gunpowder after he completes his work, and watching the slow burn is delightfully mesmerizing.

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Christine Wang

Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).


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