Mr. Bachelor from Lake Hosmer or The Appearance of a Strange Black Shadow

Because of my ongoing love affair with eastern Oregon, I have many sketches of Mt. Bachelor so I am pretty familiar with the mountain. This color sketch took awhile. I worked away on it, head down, well into the early trance state of flow that happens when art is going well.

I looked up to see a solid dark shadow. a distinct band across the mountain. I looked at the sky and only the lightest wispy clouds appeared- certainly nothing to create a heavy solid shadow form. I watched without blinking for at least 40 seconds. The dark line remained long enough me to quickly add it to my sketch, then the shadow slowly dissolved and was completely gone. I cannot explain it.

One thought on “Mr. Bachelor from Lake Hosmer or The Appearance of a Strange Black Shadow”

  1. Cheryl,
    I saw a band of red smoke from the forest fires that i believe cast the drifting dark shadow. When I first glanced at this wonderful drawing, I thought it was one of the Painted Hills, but it is clearly Mt. Bachelor. I love the evocative red and black and the mystery of the shadow band.

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