This painting didn't quite turn out as envisaged, I think some bits have worked out better than others for example the sky and the sea, I'm not so sure about the foreground sand and stream leading in though and I had a bit of a disaster trying to paint the stream see slide 8 it just wasn't working so I wiped it off! I've added some progression photographs as usual and the original reference photo which was my inspiration. #seascape #sunrise #appleysunrise #coastalpainting #c

I considered it was about time that I created a painting from my home town of Shanklin where I live on the Isle of Wight. Most people know this view as Dunnose however my husband begs to differ and pointed out to me that the cliff is actually called 'Knock Cliff'. Well anyway I produced this painting and apparently broadly speaking the place-name element os in Dunnose can mean God (Celtic) the place-name element dun in Dunnose can mean fort (Scots Gaelic Irish) so I'm going