Summer mood - ACEO seascape studies

With all this hot weather and our visits at various seaside locations, I had to paint some seascapes: waves, sand beaches, and some tropical palm trees. Although imaginary, they are kind of ideal places for my vacation!
Here are the three little ACEOs (3.5x2.5 inches):

Shell-ing a-Round #03

The third ACEO painting for the challenge, and it is again a Mussel. Trying to get a smoother shell texture, and some glow with this and next one.

Breaking waves - dreaming of summer

The big breaking waves and the white foam coming close to our feed while walking on the seaside are reminding us of the lovely summer days and vacation! During the previous week workshop I introduced the masking fluid usage to the workshop group, and what better choice to show how to save the white of the paper than with the white of the waves foam. These two are the examples I had ready before the workshop, to give an idea of what we are aiming at (I have another 2 in work, which I partially did during the workshop). Both are 10x7 inches in size, and are done with my usual watercolor palette.