After a year off due to COVID, the Hampton Beach Sand Sculpture Competition was back.
We spent an idyllic day at the beach looking at the sculptures and enjoying the cool breezes.
Each artist has three – eight hour days to complete their work.
2021 Hampton Beach Sand Sculpture Contest
Milford Street 
Fantastic!!
My sentiments exactly.
The detail artists are able to achieve on these is just amazing!
I agree. The details are phenomenal.
Wow! They are getting bigger and more detailed!
The latest thing seems to be to carve a void in the center. The gaps tend to be rather small though for obvious reasons.
I didn’t get down this year, so thanks for this post.
I’m glad you enjoyed it Judy.
We have beach contests every year and each time the artistry amazes me! I can’t believe they can create such works of art, only to have them destroyed.
I feel the exact same way.
Amazing! 🙋♂️
Isn’t it?
do you by chance know how they hold the sand together? It is a wonderful display. thank you.
Thank you, Dymoon. It’s all gravity and water. They use a sand whose grains are the right shape. Then theycompress it in blocks using forms. Then, they can carve it.
Wow! That was fun! I enjoyed this very much, Chris. Thank you!
Thank you, Nancy. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Magnificant ! Every time I see it, I wonder how the artists manage to create these statues.
We had also different sand sculpture festivals here in Belgium over the past years.
It is very impressive; so much creativity and expertise at the mercy of the rain!
Oh wowwwwww😊😊😊😊thesea are amazing work of art Chris
Phenomenal. I am always impressed by the artistry involved in sand sculptures. 👀🍃
How awesome these sculptures are!! I appreciate you sharing this….takes me back a number of years ago when we were raising our girls in San Diego. They have the same thing and every year we’d make a point of going and looking at all of the sculptures!! Great captures….thanks for posting this!!
Oh, wonderful! I love sand sculpture! What artists these people are!
I love your Beach Sand Sculpting Festival – so many beautiful pieces of art! They’re currently building the highest sandcastle here in Europe, in Denmark I think. It’s over 20 meters high!
That must be an amazing sand castle.