Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A river seen from high up, bending like it has somewhere to be.

Number 40 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, in acrylic on board with a maple frame, dated 2020 to 2024. Aerial views became a familiar subject for landscape painters once flight made them ordinary, and they tend to turn rivers and fields into near abstraction. A broad mauve river curls across the lower half, its banks cut into dark strips of flat land. Above, the plain fades into haze under a salmon sky, with a few white flecks scattered across the middle. It is 7 inches square overall, with a 6 by 6 inch image.

The window seat, well spent.