Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

The moon is trying to get past a very large tree. The tree is winning.

Number 20 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Painters working small often reduce a landscape to a few big shapes and let the edges between them do the talking. A dark, billowing mass of foliage fills the center, its outline softened against a dusty rose sky. On the left a pale disk of light peeks out from behind it, above a dark tree line and a small patch of water. It measures 7 by 7 inches, with an image 6 inches square.

Patience, presumably, will win out by midnight.