A Saturday Sketch

Last weekend the Saturday sketchers went to a private garden in one of the old neighborhoods. The owner has landscaped his garden in a number of interesting and sometimes quirky ways. For example, he used a top of a salvaged column as a centerpiece in one flower bed, making it look like an old ruin. The terraced garden features a large patio dominated by a gurgling fountain. We sketched there for a couple of hours in various locations. 

In this particular sketch my interest was in the shapes and colors, so I omitted part of the fountain in favor of the more rectilinear shapes of the house and the grounds. The circular shape of the fountain helps draw the eye to the sketching figure on the right-hand side.