This is my painting as of Mar 18, 2025. This is for a special event next week at the Salem Athenaem, marking the 175th anniversary of Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." I think there will be ten paintings offered by artists from Porter Mill Studios and perhaps elsewhere. I based my painting on a quotation from the novel, seen below.* I am combining prison bars, which also serve as background for the text, with the imagery of a wild rose bush, mentioned in the quotation. In my painting, the rose bush can be seen through the prison window, and its long branches suggest the letter A, which plays an important part in the novel. On March 18th, I continued working on the lettering and the shading on the prison bars. I also added some darker leaves to the rose bush. I added a coat of pale gray to the outer border, but I was still uncertain about the color.
*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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