Prairie Smoke – Original

Description

When I see Hoary Puccoon, robust, golden-orange relative of the Forget-Me-Not, I start looking for patches of raspberry-red in the grass, because Prairie Smoke is probably not too far away. Though it’s a member of the rose family, it doesn’t resemble many of its typical rose-like relatives. The flowers are more like strange, three-dimensional stars, bell-like in how they dangle, but as they go to seed, they straighten upward and open up, revealing long, wispy seedheads that dance in the breeze—the smoke on the prairie.

Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

Art is unmatted and unframed.

This is original colored pencil art made with Polychromos Colour Pencils by Faber-Castell, an oil-based colored pencil that contains less wax than most colored pencils and therefore suffers from less wax bloom than most (in which the wax rises to the surface, dulling pigments over time). The pigments are acid-free, with the highest lightfast ratings in the industry. The majority of the colors are rated at the highest fade resistance of 100+ years, with a few rated at 25+ years.