Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

Almost all sky, and the sky has decided on mauve.

Number 25 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Small panel studies have long been a landscape painter's way of catching a passing light in one sitting, before it changes its mind. Here the upper two thirds is brushed in soft rose and lilac, with a faint pale glow near the upper left. A band of lavender haze sits on the horizon above a strip of dark, nearly black ground. It is 7 inches wide and 7 high, with a 6 inch square image.

Very little happens, and it happens beautifully.