Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

Clouds at the end of the day, in blue and apricot, over a strip of dark land.

Number 38 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, from 2020 to 2024. Sky studies are an old habit among landscape painters, who often use them to learn how light moves across a cloud. A dusty blue sky is brushed with short, textured strokes, warming to peach and rose near the horizon. A band of violet blue sea or plain lies beneath, and a dark ridge crosses the bottom. A few small orange flecks sit among the clouds. It is 7 by 7 inches in its frame, with an image of 6 by 6.

A sky that stays polite right to the end.