This is my painting as of March 17. I am painting this for a special event next week at the Salem Athenaem, to mark the 175th anniversary of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." My painting is based on a quotation from the novel, shown below.* I am using the imagery of prison bars, which also serve as background for the text. I am also including the imagery of a wild rose bush, which in my painting can be seen through the prison bars. In my painting, the runners or long branches of the rose bush seem to form the letter A, which is so important in the novel. On March 17, I started adding some shading to the horizontal bars, to see if I could make them look three dimensional.
*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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