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forestry-related sketches, 2004

3/16/2014

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My forestry work wasn’t always in the woods.  I once ran a training program for loggers that included a welding class.  While the students were
busy welding I was drawing things around the shop.  


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The class was in a big garage full of machinery.  I like drawing vehicles and machinery, but the tires always give me trouble, especially the ones with big treads. You can see I struggled with these.

I’ve done a lot of sketches of logging equipment over the years.   Here’s a partially loaded logging forwarder from around that same time. Again, the front tires were a chore.  If they were straight on at a 90 degree angle to me they would be no problem, but the perspective of a round tire at an angle is really difficult for me.

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The perspective of straight lines is a lot easier.  One day I was waiting for somebody or something at the Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest. The walls of the small museum are lined with a fantastic series of dioramas depicting the evolution of the central New England forest. I captured this view of them in about a half hour.

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