I have an impending deadline. I am creating this watercolor painting as a donation to the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference, Education Day live auction. It is a 1930’s era logger bucking logs with a crosscut saw, also known as a “misery whip”. I sketched it the night before last. I stretched my paper yesterday morning. Last night I started putting paint to paper. Tonight I have to finish it. Tomorrow I will need to cut the mat and frame it so that tomorrow night it goes to auction. whewww! I’m ready for a nap, unfortunately that will have to wait until Sunday.
This part is for any Conference attendees. I’m posting this to the Conference facebook page in case there are any attendees going to the Education Day Dinner and happen to look online. We want you to show up with your check books because it’s fundraising time. You can bid on this if you like it, or bid on something else if you don’t, but bid!
It is a WIP. This is where I stopped last night, but now I’m back at it. Updates will be forthcoming.
In the beginning, the line art.
The background washes and starting to find some detail.
Completed intial washes and adding some background detail.
You may be asking, why did he wait so long to start this? An excellent question and one to which I have a good answer. However, I can’t go into that now, because I just don’t have time. That will be another blog. Stay tuned.
THE FORESTER ARTIST 
You always create amazing art…
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Thanks Clanma, I’m not there yet, but I’m trying!
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What a great drawing featuring the log and crosscut saw. I think I know why it was called the “misery whip”. Good luck on meeting your deadline.
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Thanks Mary, I have the final picture done and posted. Go check it out!
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Looking good so far.
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Cross your fingers for me!
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Will do!
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🙂
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I see your depiction is pre-PPE…
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I know why they’re called misery whips, and quickly taught myself how to sharpen them!
Very nice, thanks for showing us the process!
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You can sharpen them, I’m impressed. Truly a dying art!
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Can’t wait to see the final painting!
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Me too!
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Looking fantastic. Looking forward to seeing the finished artwork
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Thank, I have the final picture up now. Check it out!
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Keep on your frenzy painting :: it looks great!
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Thanks, and your right….frenzied!
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Tim, you will succeed. It is interesting watching your work developed, good luck.
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I’m so close…..
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It’s gonna be wonderful!
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Thanks for the vote of confidence Elena!
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how great, and you surely thrive under pressure! cutting the mat and making the frame – wow, i admire you! good luck, and i am sure it will be appreciated by all who see it!
z
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I bought the frame, but I do have to cut the mat, yikes! I hope they appreciate it enough to bid the bajeebers out of it!
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they should, but that’s always a horrible feeling – ‘what if no one likes it or wants it.’
the bidding should go well! enjoy the festivities!
z
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Thanks, we shall see. These things are always hard for me to predict.
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You have such an amazing talent!! I wouldn’t even know where to start!
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Thanks Bernice, too bad I don’t have a talent for replying in a timely manner. 😉
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I love seeing a work in progress like this – thank you.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
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so this is how we do watercolor :D! But doesn’t turn out quite the same when some of us try….I think it needs a steady, well practices painter’s hand!!!
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You are way too kind, and besides we should never be the same. Where is the fun in that?
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practiced*
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Got it.
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