You’ll find photos of 20 years of sand sculptures here, And if that motivates you to try making some yourself, you’ll find the basics of how to make a sand sculpture here. It is an amazing thing, when children walk by on the beach, glance over at the sand sculpture and exclaim “Whoa! Look at that!!!” And then they have questions… Are you an artist? What holds it up? How do you make that?”

NOTE for 2026: Hackers from Africa (OF COURSE!) took down the website and I now have to recreate it all over again, using my own platform (No more Wordpress - it sucks - it is too easy for hackers), so it will be a probably not till Thanksgiving that I get all the pages and photos back up! It is slow, painstaking work. The world has way too many despicable scumbags in it!

When I explain that it is just a pile of sand and I am not a trained or professional artist… you can see the wheels in their heads turning… if that can make that out of nothing but sand… what can I create from sand… or other things? One of them might become the next Robert Goddard, Thomas Edison or Elon Musk.

Here’s a quick Tale of Contents, by category, of sand sculptures I’ve made over the years. The menu is always available at the top of each page, under “Sand Sculpture Photo Gallery”.

• Movie Characters
• Cartoon characters
• Video Game characters
• Buildings and Monuments
• Snow sculptures

The first “professional” sand sculptors seem to have originated in Atlantic City in 1897, when “sand artists” made sand art on the beach by the boardwalk and people walking on the boardwalk would toss coins to them. Apparently, it stopped in the late 1940’s by a city ordinance. The NY Public Library has the postcard below from 1900 of one of the artists, who apparently called himself “The Sandman”, at work. So, in honor of his pioneering sand sculpting, I’ll do my best to keep the tradition of the original “Sandman” alive today, entertain adults and sparking the imagination of children on the beach!

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