This is color seduction. This plant is positively erotic, passionate, complex and entirely wild.
I bought two. Each of the Passiflora pace my garden by the east fence. Before I even put the second plant in the ground, orange colored butterflies were already congregating around my shoulders. They laid eggs immediately. The tiny “Sith” catepillars grew large within a week! That’s passion of the butterfly.
The Passiflora is a vine plant. In time, I expect this plant to cover the brown reed fence with their heavy green leaves and pop passion flowers. Study of the flower was a visually exciting experience. It has three levels of color and line explosions: the lower are the base purple leaves; the tendrils which are like purple orgasmics and the mid center. The center have large lobal pistils. Everything in this plant is sexual. The lobes are succulent juicy looking; the tendrils are the wild hair of a gorgeous wanton woman; the base leaves are the steady gentlemen and ladies holding the rest in security.
Fear was my first response. My reaction would be the same if I met a man that was too gorgeous, too sexy, too passionate…oh my…I was not sure I was all that capable to meet this passion’s demands. It took me at least three days to complete this piece. Instead of meeting its perfection with precision, I chose to jump on top of it.
The top position enabled me to see the three layers and simplify the wrangled lovely locks. I kept to the steady image development by drawing shapes with Nupastels on Bienfang Charcoal paper. When I sufficiently laid in the base colors, the edges of the Nupastels brightened up the center in strokes.
I sprayed it with Krylon fixative only twice. When the paper is saturated with actual pigment build-up, I spray. The spray settles the dust and pigment. The Krylon is my favorite fixative because it has a low color-change effect. It helped me build more color.
The next layers I built up with Sennelier but this wasn’t the format for those lovely pastels. Instead, I turned to the Pan Pastels using the applicator. Ah…that had the right effect…soft pastels put where I wanted them to go. Finally, I finished it with the Nupastels: my favorite workhorse pastels.
I had to quit when I was out of breath looking for more areas to pastel. This lovely passion flower will be revisited another day. I yet have to learn how to comb the lion locks with color pastel.
so beautiful