Ashcat

With Affinity Photo V2 on iPad Pro and Pencil.

This was the first thing a thought. A Dali compsition! Well done! Compliments! 

Made with symbols Affinity Photo V2. Text at the gear is “gears of life”.

Nice idea, it inspired me to get a little creative.

Made with symbols Affinity Photo V2. Text at the gear is “gears of life”.

I love the simplicity of the tree! Nicely done 👍

Made with symbols Affinity Photo V2. Text at the gear is “gears of life”.

Made with symbols Affinity Photo V2. Text at the gear is “gears of life”.

This was the first thing a thought. A Dali compsition! Well done! Compliments! 

To try and give a bit more detail to what Kasper-V has already said above…
The sundial is in Derbyshire, England, which is in the Northern Hemisphere.
(I am assuming that the sundial is installed in the place where it was designed to be used, and not taken from elsewhere.)
The thread title tells us that the sundial is vertically-mounted, rather than horizontal.
In order for it to be usable we can also assume that it was installed on a south-facing wall (or similar), since it is in the Northern Hemisphere, otherwise the sunlight wouldn’t fall directly on it and, therefore, the sundial wouldn’t be easy to read.
Since the Sun rises in the East, and the sundial is in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are looking towards the North when reading the sundial, the sunlight will first hit the sundial, at dawn, at a low angle just above the horizon to the East (on our right), which will cast a shadow on the sundial on the left, e.g. near the 7 A.M. position.
The Sun will then continue to move West, and behind us, with the shadow angling further ‘down’ and to our right moving towards midday (12) at the bottom of the sundial.
After midday the Sun will continue moving West with the shadow angling further ‘up’ and to our right towards the 6 P.M. position after which the Sun eventually goes down on the Western horizon.
I hope that helps.

Thanks for the compliments, Ashcat! This is in the northern hemisphere, and the sun moves across the dial from right to left, so the shadow moves the other way. Clocks came after sundials, so I don't know why 'clockwise' is actually 'widdershins'!

Es ist schon erstaunlich, was aus meinem Affinity-Projekt mit meinen digitalen Heften geworden ist. Daran habe ich im Sommer 2021, als ich begann, nie gedacht. Auslöser war sicherlich der Hype um die Affinity-Suite, aber auch mein Einsteigerbuch zum Publisher, das im September 2020 auf den Markt kam. Ist das alles schon so lange her? Nun ist mittlerweile das M62-Heft Nr. 20, auch ein Sonderheft ist kürzlich erschienen. 
Viele meiner im Laufe der letzten 3 Jahre geschriebenen Artikel sind aus meiner täglichen Arbeit heraus entstanden. Auch einige Themen in den Affinity-Gruppen bei Facebook wurden behandelt. Heute frage ich mich, wie ich in der Zeit insgesamt 516 Seiten schreiben konnte. Ungezählte Stunden habe ich mit Recherchen, Screenshots, Tüfteln und Ausprobieren verbracht. Mit jeder Ausgabe sind neue Leser und Leserinnen dazugekommen, nicht selten wurde ich auch privat angeschrieben, um ein Problem zu lösen. Also, näher kann man am Leser einfach nicht dran sein.
Zudem wuchs auch meine Internetseite mit vielen unterschiedlichen Informationen stetig an. Wenn etwas mehr Zeit übrig bleibt, werde ich diese weiter ausbauen und erweitern. Für die aktuelle Ausgabe Nr. 20 habe ich wieder sehr interessante Themen gefunden und ich darf Ihnen wie immer recht viel Freude beim Lesen und Ausprobieren wünschen!
Freuen würde ich mich auch einmal über ein Feedback der Affinity-Macher, denn mein Projekt ist in Deutschland einmalig und hat mittlerweile viele Freunde/Freundinnen gefunden!
https://magazin62.de/

I found a pic of a wall-mounted sundial at Norbury Manor in Derbyshire in my old photos. (It's a National Trust property, and open to visitors from time to time.) It was erected as a memorial to (I think) the former owner, who died in 1987. I've changed all the inscriptions in the foolish hope of looking clever.

 
The base colour is 45/38/71 in HSL . . .

and I found a grungy texture in my collection (this is a reduced copy) . . .

and after some playing about, I found an opacity or 25% and a blend mode Colour Burn gave me a pleasing marble-like effect.
For the incised text, I darkened the fill slightly and applied an Inner Bevel/Emboss FX using the first (triangular) profile, inverted. I adjusted the radius till the bevels met in the middle, making the letters look as though they'd been carved.

Geometric line art. The figure itself created in Affinity Designer, and the effects and background added in Affinity Photo.
 

Complete made with Affinity Photo 2.3.1, textures from Affinity(D.Wuestenhagen packet) and texturelabs. My own photo served as the basis, the processing was to go in a painterly, impressionistic direction.
 

At first I make a sketch with a basic brush, than I paint the bird, with a lot off layers so if I’m not content I can delete just that layer or use a different color to see what is best. For details I make a new group and again a lot of layers. I use a lot of different brushes. For finetuning I use the smudge brush. The background is always the last layer I make. During the painting my background is only one color. And no, I don’t use gradient. 
 

With Affinity Photo V2 on iPad Pro and Pencil.

With Affinity Photo V2 on iPad Pro and Pencil.

I thought I'd take Affinity Designer's amazing new spiral tool for a spin in a recent Spoonflower competition. Spoonflower is a print-on-demand service for anyone who wants to buy printed fabrics and wallpaper. These spirals incorporate Pantone Peach Fuzz and Peach Blossom. Peach Fuzz is the 2024 Colour of the Year.

The image above was rendered in Cheetah 3D. The remaining images are Spoonflower mockups.
These patterns can be bought printed on demand; not just on fabric and wallpaper, but also as ready-made duvet covers, pillow cases, table cloths and napkins. https://www.spoonflower.com/en/collections/796023-spirals-by-geometrical_design?productType=FABRIC
I'll be adding more spiral patterns to this collection over the months to come.

I used the mechanical pencil H4 from the Pencil brushes with a high width. If I want some parts thinner, I used the eraser also set on mechanical pencil so that the outer line of the branch is not strait. 

With Affinity Photo V2 on iPad Pro and Pencil.

At first I make a sketch with a basic brush, than I paint the bird, with a lot off layers so if I’m not content I can delete just that layer or use a different color to see what is best. For details I make a new group and again a lot of layers. I use a lot of different brushes. For finetuning I use the smudge brush. The background is always the last layer I make. During the painting my background is only one color. And no, I don’t use gradient. 
 

With Affinity Photo V2 on iPad Pro and Pencil.