Here is the third installment of my beach sketches drawn on the sand in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina this past August. Today’s sketches are just of some of the various people that would come down to the Outer Banks for a week and play in the sand and surf. Thankfully, as they were creating sand castles and running out of the water from jellyfish, they never noticed what I was up to over in my little beach chair sheltered from the sun beneath a baseball cap and an umbrella. Enjoy.
This man intrigued me. He was a grandpa who just stood there barely moving with a slight grin on his face watching his grandkids. With that interesting physique, I wished he was a little more active so I could see him in motion doing something, but the best I could hope for was for him to slightly turn……which he did do for me to capture this slightly different angle. Once he sat down, he was out of my line of sight.I really liked how this lady had her legs kind of twisted as she just stood there with her camera waiting to get a shot of her kids.Speaking of kids, there were a few of them at the beach, but mostly pre-school aged kids since in the South, school starts by mid-August. It was tough to draw them as they never held still long enough for me to see a strong pose. This girl’s attention was held slightly longer than most when she played in the sand.And this might be my favorite sketch of my time at the beach. This little girl was maybe 6 years old, and had that delightful awkward gangly thing going for her. She reminded me of children’s book character Eloise.
