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Skip Mathews made a decision during his college studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, that shaped his artistic journey as a coppersmith for the last 50 years.
“I had the choice in college of being a potter or a metalsmith,' he says. 'Luckily, I didn’t have the money to be a potter.'
“When I left the University, I started with a candle company, making copper clad candles. Then, I progressed on with the copper and began doing jewelry,” he says.
Soon, he had a realization that would change his artistic career.
“Whenever I would solder, there would always be these colors around these solder marks,' he says. Webcrack. 'Fifteen years later, I finally realized it was the reduction part of my torch. I promised myself for the next ten years I would make nothing but butterflies to perfect the process.'
Along the way, he made another discovery.
“In the beginning, I had no idea that patterns were even possible,” he says. “When I saw I was able to create patterns -- that just sort of opened up all sorts of things. Initially I thought I could only do one color.”
Six years into his experimentation process, he figured out how to create patterns in specific colors on the copper.
“That is when I went from calling myself a copper colorist to a flame painter because I was able to create contrast and composition with the flame,” he says. In total, he made 15,000 butterflies during his decade-long dedication to mastering the process.
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“He is called the father of flame painting because he is the first one to get control over the colors that are natural when you heat copper,” says his wife, Racheal. 'He is the first one to separate them into little shapes and colors. Anybody can get color with heating copper. That’s what it does, but to get control over it is another story.”
Now, he and his wife, Racheal, who has also been flame painting for 16 years, enjoy teaching the process to others at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. The center serves as their home base and the location of their primary studio, where visitors can watch them create their works of copper art.
Their work is primarily sold at fine art and craft shows under their business name, Copper Colorists. As master craftsman in the fine craft sector, they attend seven shows annually. They also sell their work at the Ozark Folk Center.
Racheal discussed her preference for working with copper.
“You can flame color other metals a little bit, but you won’t get as many colors. You get more colors with copper and we get shapes and patterns, but you can’t get that on other metals,” she says. “With copper you can get fifteen different colors.”
Yoruba dictionary apk. She describes how they us the reduction flame to draw the shapes and patterns on copper.
“The reduction flame is reducing the oxidation that is caused by the heat,' she says. 'It is erasing the color so you can start over again and reducing it so you can get shapes and patterns. The eraser is the reduction flame. The reduction flame takes the oxidation right off.”
Racheal says there is an order to the color, so you know what to anticipate.
The color you get is impacted by how hot you get the metal, how many times you heat the area and whatever is in the air that day, such as chemicals, debris or barometric pressure.
“If you are a control freak, this is not the medium for you,” she says. “You have to really allow the copper to do its thing.”
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Escape Motions has announced Flame Painter 4, its first update to the unique digital painting tool in five years, adding new particle systems, a new Brush Creator panel, and support for symmetry painting.
The new version is due to ship next week.
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Flame Painter enables users to create images by painting with particle-based brushes.
Although they are well suited to generating effects like glows and light trails, they can also be used to create a surprisingly wide range of illustrations and concept art.
In Flame Painter 4, the existing Flame, Follow and Ribbon systems have been rewritten to increase user control, including the option to generate either an even fill or continuous or dotted lines.
There are also three new particle systems – Linear, Elastic and Fuzzy (pictured above) – capable of generating a range of new effects discussed in this blog post.
The new systems will not form part of the core software, but will be available as paid add-ons.
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New Brush Creator panel and more standard image-editing tools
Other changes in Flame Painter 4 include a new Brush Creator panel (pictured above), designed for editing more advanced brush properties.
Common properties like size, opacity and blending mode remain editable via the Properties panel.
Other new features include a new symmetry painting mode and the option to import vector paths in SVG format and convert them into brush strokes.
Flame Painter Connect, the Photoshop integration plugin, has also been updated, although the core software also gets new features designed to minimise the need to work in Photoshop, including the option to resize the image or canvas, a new colour picker, and improved selection, fill and transform tools.
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Updated 7 June 2019: Flame Painter 4 is now shipping. Escape Motions has discontinued the cut-down $29.99 Personal edition of the software, leaving only the Professional edition.
Pricing and system requirements
Flame Painter 4 is available for Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.11+. Flame Painter Connect is compatible with Photoshop CS5 and above.
The MSRP of the full version remains unchanged at $89.99, while the new Linear, Fuzzy and Elastic particle systems cost $19.99 each. Bundle deals are also available.
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Read more about the new features in Flame Painter 4 on Escape Motions’ blog
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