redemption

This is a cover illustration for electronic media class.  We were to choose a novel and illustrate the cover.  We will also design the layout with the illustration included.  The novel I chose was The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  It's a story about a puritan woman named Hester who has an affair while her husband is away.  She was then forced to always wear a capital letter A on her dress.

I wanted to choose a different approach to previous illustrated covers of this novel and not focus on just Hester and her child born from the affair.  I wanted to focus on the actual lust instead.  The scarlet letter A is in a white circle symbolizing her pregnancy and adultery.

"redemption"

Acrylic on wood.  16" x 12"