Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A white house hides at the edge of the dusk, behind a very big tree.

Number 9 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Small studies like this are generally painted to fix a moment of light, with detail left for later or left out entirely. A dark, rounded tree dominates the upper left against a dusky mauve sky. Behind it, a strip of orange glows at the horizon, and a small pale building sits at the right. A pale pink slope runs across the foreground, dotted with low shrubs, and the weave of the surface shows through. It is 7 inches square, with a 6 by 6 inch image.

Someone is home, and dinner is probably on.