 However, from the earlier pages he seems to be grappling with the techniques for the first time.He was successful early on in showing space receding over reflective water or within interior spaces, but appears to have experienced more difficulty with landscape.Early attempts, for example "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" in which three imposing figures in the foreground are presented before a distant hillscape, see him, perhaps crudely, eliminating the mid-ground to create the illusion of distance.