Andrew Clemens invented, then perfected, the art of the sand bottle in the late nineteenth century. By Leslie Umberger and Jill Vaum Rothschild Andrew Clemens, Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle ...

Remember sand art from when you were a kid? It's that craft where you took a clear, empty bottle and poured in layer upon layer of colored sand until the whole thing was filled to the brim.

Andrew Clemens was an Iowa folk artist. He created beautiful works of art in bottles using different colored sands. It is estimated that there are less than 50 of his works surviving. Well ...

One of the sand art bottles depicts the Shanghai World Expo mascot at the Jordan Pavilion in Shanghai on June 9, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Jordan's sand bottle art is associated with the nature of the desert, sand, and glass. Beautiful paintings are painted inside bottles at the request of visitors, or the choice is left to the artist.