Painting the DC Temple

"For Time and Eternity", 
watercolor, 19"x13"

"For Time and Eternity, in Sepia"
Sepia was Liz's idea and I think it turned
out beautifully in a giclee.

Living in Potomac, Maryland, gave me the opportunity to have the DC Temple just 15 minutes away (traffic permitting) in Kensington.  I painted on location and from photographs I took. The temple is a particularly challenging subject because the shape is hexagonal, rather than rectangular.  It also challenges because of the various heights of the spires and the way the light bounces between them to make back glows.  I've made over 60 studies of the temple in pencil, watercolor, and oil.  Included within my blog are many of my favorite images.

"September Evening", 24"x36", watercolor, in the private collection of Geoff and Susanne Huguely.  I now have the honor that a full-size giclee of this image was selected in 2016 to hang in the Barlow Building,  which functions as the home of the BYU/Washington (DC) Seminar.

"Serenity at Sunset", watercolor, 19"x13"
in the private collection of Mac Christensen, of Salt Lake City, UT.
This was painted during a blizzard.

"DC Temple in the Blizzard of '96"
Watercolor, 19"x13"
In the collection of Ralph and Carole Hardy.
This is one of my favorite Temple paintings.
It was made with gusto, like the blizzard outside my window. 

The paintings that have the reflecting pool in the above position were based on a photograph of my son, Eric and his bride Liz, as they posed at the far end of the pool.  I have done paintings on location at the Temple, but I feel a little conspicuous in my art clothes and gear painting in such a peaceful and beautiful setting, therefore most of my work are from photos.