Painting on Board by Brian Sindler: Ephraim Yacht Club Nocturne, Framed

Dim lights across a murky horizon, floating in an enormous black frame

This painting on board is by Brian Sindler, and is contemporary. It is acrylic on board. Rather than copying a view faithfully, he uses color to evoke mood, often borrowing the tones of dawn and dusk to soften the atmosphere of a scene. A small, soft painting of gray-brown haze above a dark violet water band, with a few tiny yellow lights along the horizon. The wide dark frame with carved steps dwarfs the canvas. It is 13 inches wide and 11 high.

The frame is the loudest voice here, and the picture is fine with that.