Smokestack

The burning of #wood in power and heat stations, and the industrial use of #charcoal, are expanding rapidly worldwide, at the expense of forests (and therefore our future).

This is driven by a combination of renewable energy targets and subsidies, #coal phaseout policies that support wood #biomass as an alternative, the exemption of biomass from carbon taxes and pricing and, in parts of the global South, carbon-#offsetting schemes.

https://www.boell.de/en/2025/03/14/forest-furnace

George Woods, was a skilled photographer who worked in Sussex in the late 1880s. He focused on working people, in rural areas to record life before mechanisation transformed farming methods and traditions. Charcoal burning used for forest glass. #glass #charcoal #Sussex #Weald

#illustration of a scene from Seven Pillars of Wisdom:

"I said, 'The best of you brings me the most Turkish dead', and we turned after the fading enemy [...]"

Pig

Puerto Rican longshoreman, sketched from a public domain photo at Internet Archive

Last night’s Rasputin themed #lifedrawing session. Lots of fun and great production value even including the infamous piece of pickled anatomy.

Models are fisk_station and rahme.lifemodel and run by topsecretlifedrawing on IG.

Tonight’s #lifedrawing session

Model is hwj.love on IG

Been lovely and sunny here lately and then yesterday the clouds came back. Love them them too luckily and got very messy — fingers and palm black with charcoal. The worked area here is around 45x30 cm (17x11”) on a sheet measuring 57x38. Willow charcoal on 300 gsm white Somerset textured paper.

Charcoal study of a few wooden blocks on the table. Thinking about making a pen prawing based on this later on. #MastoArt #Charcoal

G.
Hunger.
Drawing - Ink And Charcoal On Paper.

Hunger is a drawing in ink and charcoal showing black hands holding a belly glowing white with hunger, a reflection on increasing hunger where I live in Brazil, after hunger being practically eradicated over the last thirty years.

[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/hunger-james-mccormack.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social ]

$11 12x40 Ultra Pure Prewashed Virgin Coconut Shell Activated Carbon (Water Filtration, Aquarium Cleaning Charcoal) - Resealable 1 Pound Bag (455 grams)

https://www.amazon.com/Prewashed-Virgin-Coconut-Activated-Charcoal/dp/B00XWK9XBC

Charcoal drawing of a forgotten wall in the desert #MastoArt #Charcoal #Desert