I have substituted the crashing wave on the right with a mermaids tail. Obviously, or hopefully, still recognisable as a wave but I thought I needed to carry through with the overall stylisation. I also didn’t want the obvious big white spuming wave that is in the photograph. I think that in some ways I have made the wave almost silent and it just adds to the poetic mood of the whole scene, that’s my take on it. I thought it was finished but it may benefit from a bit more detail in the mid ground sea.
Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. Day 6