I’m starting my new piece of art for the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference Forestry Education Fundraising Auction. That’s a mouth full. I don’t have anything to post yet, but here is last years entry.
I’m going to need to top this one! Stay tuned for my progress reports.
THE FORESTER ARTIST 
What a great drawing, so talented.
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Shouldn’t steam engines be spewing gray/black smoke form stack not white ? Logs would have to be much longer to be marketable (see height of timber trestle) ?
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Not necessarily, depending on how much resin is in the wood affects the color of the smoke. Pitchy pine would be very black, but oak, cedar or Douglas-fir would make a light gray smoke which is what’s in the painting. The hotter the furnace ran the more combustion take place lightening the color. Back in the day logs took a lot of man, horse, ox and steam power to move. Although, steam has tremendous power there was still a lot of manhandling of the logs. Most logs them were big back then so short logs were cut to reduce the weight of each piece. Also, I had very good reference photos to get the lengths correct.
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Thank you for the information
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Can’t wait to see what you do this year Tim!
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Can’t wait to see what you do this year Tim!!
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Me too! It’s coming along.
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