Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A moon like a thumbnail clipping, and a forest that has gone green and rosy.

Number 34 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, from 2020 to 2024. Landscape painters have long used a pale moon in a warm sky to mark the turn from day to evening. A large cluster of olive and dark green trees fills the right side, flecked with lilac and pink. At left a small pale moon hangs in a peach sky, above a gray band of distant water. Brown earth runs along the base. It is 7 inches square in the frame, with an image of 6 by 6.

The trees look to be holding their own.