Am I being VERY naughty.....

Or can I be forgiven? I've painted a couple of watercolours - fairly unusual for me, but I enjoyed it a lot - in which I took a couple of local scenes from my sketchbook: not looking at the photographs of them, and not going to the sites to check them, because I'm getting older, don't drive, and it's hard work to paint plein air when you're full of arthritis (excuses, excuses!). The paintings vary quite a bit from the actuality - I've altered them to suit my composition: I reason that if people want to see the reality, they can toddle down to the sites and point their cameras at them.  I know what my literally-minded younger brother would say - if you call it, eg, Fort Albert, dammit, it's got to look just LIKE Fort Albert (he was a lawyer: I think that explains things satisfactorily). I don't agree with him - though I would like to represent it accurately, if I could remember it accurately; or go back to the site to paint it, it's just more work than I feel able to undertake - so I offer an interpretation.  My interpretation won't be a thousand miles off; I probably WOULD try harder to get accuracy if I were painting a real landmark building - eg, a Cathedral, or Castle - but my commitment to accuracy only goes so far, so I offer an impression, aka stab in the dark.... Is this bad?  Should I be given a hard stare, or slap?   I don't have mountains to paint, on the Isle of Wight.  I can take liberties with downland, because - apart from anything else - no one can tell quite where you were standing when you painted a particular vista, and would find it very hard to prove you'd adjusted it to suit yourself; cliffs - well, they do change a bit over time anyway, so a bit of creative variation doesn't really trouble me (actually - it's really surprising [and yes I digress] how the broad outlines of even quite soft chalk cliffs can remain constant over around 100 years); but my little brother believes buildings should be sacrosanct - or at least, I think he does; he's a man of few, pointed, words.   There was a well-known painter of the Isle of Wight named Charles Brannon, who produced lithographs/aquatints of points of interest.  But - although I can only see them around 150 years after he drew them, I bet he changed 'em a bit!  Still, if the collective wisdom here is that I'm just to lazy to grasp and represent the actualité. I shall reluctantly conclude that I should try harder.  Don't want to, mind; but I'd try.  

Can't post the WIP for various reasons: post remains sort of valid, all the same.  

Scanned it, in the end; still missing the violet touch in the sky, but you'll just to have imagine it's a masterpiece. This COULD be quite hard work.