Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A coastline at night, lit up in tiny flecks like someone dropped the sugar.

Number 6 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Night scenes have long tested painters, since nearly everything has to be suggested with a narrow range of dark tones. Here the whole panel is blue: a pale curve of surf at the left, a deep navy land mass beyond it, and violet lines that read as roads. Small dabs of white and yellow mark lights scattered along the shore and inland. The frame is 7 inches wide and 7 high; the image, 6 by 6.

Somebody down there left the porch light on.