Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

White brushstrokes curl through a gray sky like the weather is writing something.

Number 11 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, dated 2020 to 2024. Overcast days are often the hardest light to paint, since everything sits in a narrow band of grays. A dark, blocky mass of trees sits on a spit of land at center left, with pale water at both sides. The sky above is worked in loose, looping strokes of white over gray, and a low line of distant shore crosses the right. It measures 7 by 7 inches in the frame, with an image 6 inches square.

Gray, but never once dull.