Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A purple cloud rolls in low, and a thin bright line holds out at the horizon.

Number 15 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Painters have long used small boards for sky studies, where a single afternoon can supply a dozen subjects. Here a broad mauve cloud bank fills the lower half, its upper edge catching a pale highlight. Above it, a cool gray green sky is brushed in short, textured strokes. A sliver of light glows at the far left horizon above a dark strip of land. It is 7 inches wide and 7 high; the image, 6 by 6.

The forecast, in miniature.