Avery Kintner of San Luis Obispo spent four hours on the beach below SeaCrest OceanFront Hotel pushing a tiny rake, a stick and a rope through a large patch of sand. He moved in circles and squiggles, ...

Artists from all over the world gathered at Pismo Beach to draw intricate art on the sand. This is the first time an event ...

But the ancient act of placing your index finger in damp sand and drawing a heart, or your name, or a flower, or the sun, is particularly timeless, and a pastime sandily savored by ocean visitors the ...

An artist in Ireland creates mind-blowing optical illusions out of sand — and then watches them wash away. Manuel Frolich enjoys going to the beach, but he doesn’t just lounge around like most people.

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WSAV) — Spectacular sand art awaits! The SCAD Sand Arts Festival returns to Tybee Island Friday. SCAD students and alumni will transform Tybee’s South Beach into a one-day-only ...

When it comes to keeping kids entertained, you can run out of options quickly since they’re always on to the next big thing. You can only have them watch so much TV, read so many books, and play ...

When the tide is low on the southern Oregon coast, giant spiraling paths can be seen drawn in the sand. In the spring and summer, people flock to Bandon to walk these artistic labyrinths that stretch ...

Andrew Clemens invented, then perfected, the art of the sand bottle in the late nineteenth century. By Leslie Umberger and Jill Vaum Rothschild Andrew Clemens, Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle), 1883, ...

Remember sand art from when you were a kid? It's that craft where you took a clear, empty bottle and poured in layer upon layer of colored sand until the whole thing was filled to the brim. (And then ...

The Pismo Beach Sand Art Festival runs Nov. 6-8 as artists carve sand murals at low tide; view zones from SeaCrest, Wilmar Avenue, the pier or hotel rooftops.

Shelter-in-place restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic have pushed many people to revisit old hobbies or start new ones. Although a friend’s suggestion inspired Glenn Ohler to pursue a new ...