As summer nears its conclusion, so, too, does Dartmouth’s studio tour season.

A week after The Art Drive brought 32 artists together in Westport and Dartmouth, the South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour returned for a second round this past weekend. Some of the stops on the tour featured a love for art that extended beyond generational boundaries.

Susan Carbral, 64, opened her studio on Utica Lane to the public and gave her granddaughter, Jacqui Luca, 21, space in her backyard to showcase her own work. The two couldn’t be more different.

Cabral, a self-taught painter, draws still lifes, birds and photorealistic boats. Luca, a senior at UMass Dartmouth, works in abstraction, exploring feminism through wax sculptures. What connects them is a mutual love of creating art and expanding their abilities.

“I’ve been doing this for about 30 years, teaching and painting,” said Cabral. “I didn’t go to college for art, but, because of that, I think I worked harder to know more. I took classes with every famous artist on the northeastern coast. I still take classes to this day.”

She said she teaches small groups of adults and students at her studio. One of her former pupils was her own granddaughter.

“Me and my grandmother, we bounce off of each other quite a bit,” said Luca. “I do understand that, because my work is kind of out there, she helps me when it comes to getting my work into galleries. She broadens my skill set.”

Luca’s sculptures begin as aluminum meshing that she shapes and then brushes with wax. The surface is smoothed out with a heat gun. She said she enjoys that her process affords her flexibility. If she doesn’t like how a piece turns out, she can melt it down and start fresh.

Cabral said that, when it comes to her students, she encourages them to learn different techniques and to try new things. She thinks artists will tire of their work if they do the same thing over and over.

As for her granddaughter’s vastly different body of work, Cabral says it makes her want to step outside her comfort zone even more.

“It’s wonderful to have [art] in the family,” said Cabral. “We can go to galleries together, go to workshops together and work together.”

Across town in her home, Christine Bean, 94, had her various watercolor landscapes on display. She taught sewing classes at Dartmouth Middle School before leaving in 1978 to pursue her passion for art.

“I devoted my time to painting, which I always wanted to do. I started practicing from books and going to workshops,” said Bean, adding that she would go on sabbaticals to learn from other painters.

She said her preferred method of painting is to head out into nature, but that became difficult after her husband fell ill. It was around that time she began to teach an art class for nine students out of her home.

“It was something that made me keep at it. It was sort of a therapy,” said Bean.

After her husband passed, she, too, became ill and stopped teaching. But she still paints, even if she can’t go outside as much as she’d like.

Jill Law, 64, an interior designer, was part of both the Open Studio Tour and The Art Drive held earlier this month. She said that this summer’s studio tour season has been a positive experience. During the tour, she was able to give a demonstration on her process, which involves painting on top of custom created resin canvasses.

“When I did the demo, people were so into it. I think maybe 30 percent of them said ‘I’m going to try that,’” said Law.

She also enjoyed the crowd the studio tours attracted this year.

“I have not heard one negative comment,” she said. “Everyone has been interested in the process and very complimentary. I’m pleased.”