I made this sketch today (with Sharpies on paper), trying to formulate my idea for a painting. This is for an upcoming show in Salem, of paintings inspired by Hawthorne's novel, "The Scarlet Letter." My plan is for the background to be sky blue, and I would try to use gray for the bars (to suggest prison) with lettering in gold. This is the third of the three sketches that it took to get this far. The text is "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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