Dino Tomic the Explosive Artist

Dino Tomic's art is literally explosive. 

The Croatian-born artist added a new medium to his arsenal—gunpowder. As you watch him, armed with a squeeze bottle full of gunpowder, painstakingly shape the grainy substance on his paper, it's hard not to marvel at his eye for detail despite his unruly medium. You also marvel at his confidence as he moves his lighter closer and closer to the page until the powder ignites, the flame running down the lines like dominoes, leaving nothing but ash and Dino's image burnt onto the page. Dino Tomic says, "Everything with gunpowder is a challenge—you really need to think outside the box," and his images, which range from Star Wars characters to more serious environmentalist pieces, do just that.

Dino Tomic, a talented Croatian tattoo artist in Norway, likes to create gripping realistic drawings when he’s not tattooing clients. His drawings, whether drawing upon horror and sci-fi elements or looking to realistic models for inspiration, pulse with dynamic force. Tomic, himself a relatively young artist, has plenty of advice for those looking to improve their art skills; “The best way you can learn is to copy/study others’ work,” he writes in his artist’s statement. “While you do that you create your own style. You learn a thing from one artist and something else from someone else.”

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