Two Women Running on The Beach is a small gouache painting on plywood which is an old fashioned surface. Miniatures themselves are traditional forms of painting. Picasso has also used a classical looking palette in this painting. The tan bodies of the women are contrasted by the brilliant blue of the background. The background, however, is oversimplified without any details and the sea and the sky seem to merge into each other. Even the brush work of this painting is crude, rough and untraditional