Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A thin crescent moon keeps an eye on a dark clump of trees.

Number 36 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Dusk has long been a favorite hour for landscape painters, when color drains from the land and lingers in the sky. A gray violet sky holds a small yellow crescent in the upper right. Below it, a rounded mass of dark trees sits on a brown slope, flecked with a few warm lights. A peach glow and a blue line of hills show at the left horizon. The framed size is 7 by 7 inches; the image, 6 by 6.

The moon got the corner office.