Painting on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Morning, Lake Michigan

A dark knoll under a lemon-gray sky, framed in a wide band of bright silver

This painting on canvas is by Brian Sindler, and is contemporary. It is acrylic on canvas. His working method begins with sketching, sometimes as many as a hundred on a first visit outdoors, from which he picks only a handful to develop into finished paintings. A landscape of a smooth dark hill with a bulky tree mass at the left, under a sky of yellow-green with gray streaks. A path curls across the foreground. The frame is a flat silver-leaf molding. It is 34.25 inches wide and 28 high.

The sky is calm, the hill is brooding, and the frame is flashy.