Here is my painting as it looked on March 9. I continued to work on the text and the background behind it. I also used a layer of transparent blue to mark where the blue of the sky is going to go. (This is for a special event in Salem honoring Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter.") The text is a quotation from the novel, supplied below.* The imagery I am using comes from that passage (see below), with Hawthorne's words written on prison bars, and wild rose branches seen through the window (so far just penciled in), suggesting the famous letter A that is so important in the novel.
*Here is the quotation from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter::
"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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