Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A pale moon slips between a big round tree and a smaller dark one.

Number 24 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Small landscape panels are generally painted fast, which is why the brushwork so often stays visible. A rounded crown of dark brown foliage rises at left against a dusty beige sky. A small glowing moon sits just right of it, and an amber glow shows low along the horizon. Muddy brown ground fills the foreground, with a pale pool of water at the bottom. It is 7 inches wide and 7 high, with a 6 inch square image.

A quiet evening, thickly applied.