California Sand

My sister is a photographer and took this pic of her kids at the beach. I knew right away that I wanted to paint it. I loved the composition and the bright colors and the fact that it had figures in it but I didn't have to worry too much about the faces. So I painted it. I had no idea how hard it would be. Painting sand is not an easy task. I had never painted sand before so I tried to find out how others had done it but none of them painted the kind of sand I was painting. After practicing on several smaller pieces I finally decided I would just do my best and even if it didn't look like the sand in her pic I would be happy if it just looked reminiscent of sand. I think it does. I was way stressed about painting this .... which usually improves the results and I am happy with the finished product. I see a billion mistakes in this but I feel like I improved during the process and I am just way happy that I am doing some serious art again. Here's to watercolor!