On March 7th, I began working out the layout for this painting. (This is for a special event in honor of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter.") I am using a quotation* from the novel, written on the prison bars, with the wild rose suggesting the famous letter A in the background. I had already made a sketch (posted here on March 5th). From there, I worked out the basic layout on 10" x 10" graph paper to get the proportions and measurement right, and then finally sketched out the layout on the canvas in pencil. This part isn't fun, and the resulting sketch is not pretty, but all this necessary to produce a good result. To be continued. . .
*"But on one side of the portal and rooted almost at the threshold was a wild rose bush covered, this month of June, with its delicate gems which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token that the deep heart of Nature would pity and be kind to him."
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