Franny and Zooey

For a few years now I have been wanting to illustrate scenes from one of my favorite books, J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey. I think I'm finally ready to do it. My copy of the book has post-it notes every few pages to mark the parts that I can really visualize... there are 44 of them. Ideally I would like to paint them all, but for now I'm just going to pick my favorites to start with. The paintings are going to be large scale oil on canvas, probably incorporating some found objects, paper, and some sort of staining method. For color palette I'm thinking greys, blues and whites.. like a winter sky before a storm.

The first scene I'm going to take on is when Lane reads Franny's letter while waiting for her train to arrive: "It had a handled, unfresh look, as if it had been taken out of it's envelope and read several times before" I'm not quite sure what I'm doing yet (as usual. I tend to work a little spontaneously.) but I know that I want to affix the actual letter to the canvas. I spent the afternoon typing it up on my dad's old Smith Corona typewriter.

We will see where this project goes.