Presents a children's book for early readers that contains easy steps to drawing a sandcastle, sailboat, seagull, and other objects and animals one may find at the seashore.
Discusses artist Edward Hopper's lifelong love of the sea, and looks at some of the many paintings and drawings he created of scenes along the coast of New England.
Provides paintings of beaches, rocks, water, gulls, fish, and other aspects of nature on a small Maine island, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he painted them.