Sketch Painting by Brian Sindler: Maple Frame

The sun sinks into a paint thick enough to hold its own weight.

Number 57 is a sketch painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on board in a maple frame, made between 2020 and 2024. Heavy, ridged paint is a common way to give a sunset body, so that the glow seems pressed into the surface. A bright, pale yellow sun sits low at center, ringed by scalloped orange clouds. Above it the sky is a muddy brown and olive, streaked with thin red lines. Beneath, a dark, ploughed looking foreground fills the lower third. It is 7 inches wide and 7 high, with a 6 inch square image.

Sundown, applied with conviction.