Sketchbook Saturday – Beaches

It’s reasonably hard to come up with creative ways to sketch a beach, given that the actual sand-water strip is pretty much the same in all parts of the world. But the surroundings differ so widely that the sketcher’s interpretation makes all the difference. (Hamburg, Germany – Beach bar on the Elbe, above)

It’s the colors and perspective in this moody sketch of Patong Beach in Thailand (on Flicker, here)

Works from Urban Sketcher Róisín Curé’s series Farewell to the French Riviera, told in sketched vignettes (here)

Clinton Beach Day, an annotated record of what artist Judi Nyerges experienced in Washington (see more here)

Illustrator & comic artist Roberto Lauciello collaged some of his people sketches from the beach on Behance, here.

A couple of Julia Khokhlova’s frantically creative Cyprus in the Summer sketches (above and below / more here)

And finally (below), a near Impressionistic take on Calabria, Italy’s seaside by Oksana Drachkovska, here.