This pastel work, done on an approx. 12×10 scrap of white Pastelmat, was based in part off an image by Somchai Sumnow from Pixabay, but also off of some of my own reference photos of Hawaiian beaches.

Mostly I was interested in the different shades of blue and also how different brands of pastel lay down on the paper. There are some weird diagonal lines, probably creases from the original 19×25 size of the Pastelmat sheet,

And, just for fun, comparing the above pastel piece with another beach piece I did 3 or 4 months ago with acrylics, sand texture, glass beads, and iridescent paint.