Sketches from my trip to Japan last May~how I miss Kyoto!

these illustrations are inked on watercolour paper. I will be painting them shortly!

Some coloured sketches from my trip to Japan

We were the first to get to this secluded temple in the suburbs of Kyoto.

In order to walk on the wooden platform, you  need to take off your shoes…so we did.

By the time we left, there were a group of locals who did the same. When we turned around and looked at the shoes neatly placed at the bottom of the stairs, we could too easily see which ones were ours…so obviously placed facing sideways

How embarrassing sometimes to be a tourist!

Kyoto

Last time I was in Kyoto was in summer 2009. I really wish I wasn't so busy running around, and had taken the time to sketch all the small alleys and old houses.