Painting on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Treeline, Sunset #3, Framed

Orange dusk and a dark tree mass shaped like a sleeping animal

This painting on canvas is by Brian Sindler, and is contemporary. It is acrylic on canvas. His working method begins with sketching, sometimes as many as a hundred on a first visit outdoors, from which he picks only a handful to develop into finished paintings. A square painting with a glowing orange-red sky fading to mauve. A heavy dark clump of trees bulges up from the left with a craggy top. A plain violet-gray field spreads below, in a thin pale frame. It is 37.5 inches wide and 37.5 high.

Sunset keeps the whole drama and lets the trees lounge.