Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A pink stripe of cloud, and one dark thicket that has no plans to move.

Number 7 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, from 2020 to 2024. Open plains and big skies have long been a draw for landscape painters, since the land asks for so little drawing. Streaky blue gray sky sits above a band of bright pink cloud. Below, a broad tan plain is dotted with low shrubs, and a mass of near black trees fills the right side. It is 7 by 7 inches in the frame; the image is 6 by 6.

The pink is doing all the persuading.