Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

A row of dark trees, a rosy sky, and snow lit by the last of the day.

Number 44 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Painters often choose late light on snow because shadows turn violet and the sky borrows its warmth. A broad dusty rose sky glows orange at the horizon. Tall, shaggy dark trees stand in a line at center and right, with two smaller ones at left. Pale lilac snow fills the foreground, with a dark strip of distant land between the trunks. The frame is 7 inches wide and 7 high; the image is 6 by 6.

A cold evening with a warm opinion of itself.