Memories Revisited -The Tobacco Barn--

I just finished this today from a picture.10 x 8 acrylic on canvas board.
Most of the tobacco barns were built with pine tree logs and the cracks between the logs were packed, "daubed", with clay. Tin sheds were often added for weather protection for workers and farm equipment. The tobacco grown in this area is known as "Flue Cured Tobacco", which requires varying and strict temperature controls to cure the tobacco. In early days the bars had brick wood burning furnaces with a series of metal pipes or flues branching out from the furnace going around the barn and up. In order maintain a constant temperature it was required that someone be at the barn at all times to check the temperature and add wood to the furnace as needed. Later coal, fuel oil, and gas were used as fuels to "cure the tobacco."

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Location: N.C.

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Comment by Joseph Byrd (Joe) on December 24, 2011 at 16:00: I guarantee the was a still nearby. I am going to do this in oil and there are so many bacco barns in area that are falling down ,I'm trying to forever capture them. Thank you Marta.

Comment by Montalvo on December 24, 2011 at 15:46: Very good info Joe. I wonder if they where making "moon shine" near by. :) Would love to see this in oil.

Comment by Joseph Byrd (Joe) on December 21, 2011 at 17:27: This is a quick Acrlylic to check composition and colors. The photo does not show the deep tones. I will eventually do this in oil in a larger format