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Starting Fire Paintings

🔥 Capture the warm, hypnotic dance of a glowing fire. In this 2+ hour demo, Jeremy Duncan teaches you how to design and paint crackling fires — translating their movement, light, and mood into both structure and warmth. 


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Understand the fundamental shapes and values that make fire feel alive and believable

  • 💡 Use design principles to compose a fire scene that feels authentic and emotionally resonant

  • 🖌️ Balance color temperature (warm glows, cool shadows) to suggest heat, depth, and flicker

  • 🔍 Capture the energy and movement of flames without losing control of your values


Perfect for intermediate to advanced artists who want to bring the life, heat, and mystery of fire into their paintings — not just as a visual effect, but as a character in the story. Runtime: 2+ hours

  • Jeremy Duncan

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Jeremy Duncan

Jeremy developed a love of painting Plein Air after studying the work of such artists as Carl Rungius, Edgar Payne, Nicholai Fechin, and John Singer Sargent.
He has always been drawn to the glow of a warm, crackling fire- whether outside camping on a cold night or in his home to enjoy a mood. The life and movement of fire are comforting qualities. He has always wanted to recreate not only the look of those qualities but also the feeling. Through the application of some basic principles, he feels he has been able to capture and express the attributes of his experience with fire. He finds both the process and the end result to be highly enjoyable.

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