There were so many trees, each of them different: different kinds of leaves, different tones, different shadings. The sketch below is a meditation. I could have worked on it all day. The overcast lighting would not have changed the shadowing that much.
Japanese Garden
Pencil Sketch
10″x8″ 110# Moleskin Journal
I have a photograph of this scene, so I can get back to it whenever I want.
It’s a beautiful place and a really great depiction, I think. And I know what you mean about the meditation aspect of drawing something like this.
Thank you, Claudia. It was very nice just sitting there in the garden.