Title:
Black Bear On Newsome Creek
- Wildlife Pencil Drawing
- Dimensions (inches): 19″ x 24″
Original Wildlife Pencil Drawing by Barb Schacher
This is an original Wildlife pencil drawing signed by the artist, Barb Schacher, on acid-free, high quality, heavy weight Bristol paper using quality artist’s drawing pencils. Matted and framed, ready to hang.
The Story Behind The Drawing
The reference photo used for “Black Bear on Newsome Creek” is one I took several years ago of a “healthy” roly-poly black bear standing just above Newsome Creek Road in North-Central Idaho.
“Newsome Creek” was an old historical gold mining settlement located along the old wagon road to Elk City, Idaho. While almost everything else from the gold mining days are long gone, the old dredge piles and settling ponds left after mining for gold remain.
Newsome is nestled in a beautiful little valley complete with meadows, creeks, gorgeous evergreens and pretty Birch trees in the shadow of Pilot Knob, a gorgeous North-Central Idaho peak and fire lookout. Today there are a few modern day cabins built where the old mining settlement once was and campgrounds can be found along the creek from the Southfork of the Clearwater River to the Newsome townsite.In the late 1980’s, we owned a cabin at Newsome and, at that time, wildlife was abundant. Countless moose frequented the old dredge ponds along the creek, elk herds (that numbered in the hundreds each) grazed the meadows along the creeks and clearcuts of the forest above Newsome and mountain lion and black bear were often spotted in the area.
I miss many things about Newsome, especially seeing all of the area wildlife and the awesome, awesome Morel Mushroom hunting!
The day I photographed this bear, it had just came up the bank of the road from the creek just ahead of us as we came around a corner. It was running and “jiggling” on down the road just in front of us for a few hundred yards until it cut up the upper bank of the road and then stopped to pose next to a great big Yellow Pine tree.
I liked the bears pose in several of the pictures that I took that day. However, I didn’t care for the foreground in this particular reference photo because it showed the road bank. So I decided to improvise by changing the foreground and background in the drawing. From my imagination, I added meadow grass, native area plants and Birch trees!
One of these days, I’d like to draw this bear in another pose where he was standing stretching as high as he could with his paws resting on the grand old Yellow Pine tree. I was told that they do that to intimidate by showing how BIG they are… GGGRRRRR!
