Old Glory at the Smithsonian

8x8-inch oil on deep, gallery-wrapped canvas

It's hard to avoid feeling patriotic sometimes when you live and work in Washington DC. I enjoyed watching the breeze make the giant flag hung from the National Museum of American History billow and dance. The transparency of the fabric in the mid-morning sunlight was something I knew I had to capture in paint. The deep shadows in the building's window wells also captured my attention.