I was in Washington, D.C. back in September and made the following sketches:
The Old Patent Office, now the National Portrait Gallery, was designed by fellow Carolinian Robert Mills and completed in 1842. One of my favorite buildings in the Federal City, it's almost an abstraction of classicism with its severe Doric details. I ate in a restaurant across the street and above the International Spy Museum and caught the South facade as the sun was setting. Each block of the honey-colored masonry is a different hue, giving a blockiness that adds to the severity.
Union Station
Waiting for the Metro.
