Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A pink sky leans over a hillside of brown paint cut with a palette knife.

Number 32 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Painters of small panels often favor flat, scraped planes of color over fine detail, so a hillside can be built from a handful of marks. A rose pink sky streaked with horizontal strokes sits above a line of dark ridges. Below, tan and umber slopes fall toward a pale gray path, with a patch of lighter paint at the center. It is 7 inches wide and 7 high, and the image is 6 inches square.

Not a lot of green, and nobody misses it.