I was challenged to paint a favourite scene for a friend and they supplied this picture. I had never done a scene like this before.

This waterfall and hole in the rock (known as the 'punchbowl'), is located at the Linn Of Quioch near Braemar.

legend states that the Earl of Mar poured strong spirit into the 'punchbowl' which was then used to toast the Jacobite cause in 1715.

I used artistic licence and removed a lot of the branches that were cluttering up the view.

I changed the time from the middle of the day to the evening partly because I had bought a tube of Naples yellow and started using it on the sky.

The waterfall is painted in 'irridescent white' so that it shines in low light.