This is my painting as of March 16. I am painting this for a special event in Salem marking the 175th anniversary of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." I am basing this painting a quotation from the novel, shown below.* The imagery of a barred prison window serves as a background for the text. The passage also mentions a wild rose bush, which I am showing as if through the prison window. And the branches of the wild rose bush seem to form the letter A, which has an important role in the novel.
On March 16, I continued working on the lettering, and painted all the horizontal and vertical bars with a pale paine's gray. This is not the final color, but I used the light background as an aide in working on the lettering.
*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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