First of all, a brief introduction.

1. Sand bottle painting is the most representative tourist souvenir in Jordan. People use special tools to pour colorful sand into glass bottles with different shapes, and use the plasticity of sand to pile up colorful desert wonders in the bottles without using any adhesive. The production technology of sand bottle is quite similar to that of sand sculpture, and the artistic form is similar to that of China's inner painting.

2. The small sand bottle is about 10 cm high, and the big one is dozens of centimeters high. Each bottle has vivid and peculiar paintings. There are simple geometric patterns, as well as complex desert scenery and seaside scenery.

Second, the origin

1. According to local people, sand bottle painting was originally a folk art of Arab nomadic tribes. Bedouins who live in the desert all the year round pour sand of different colors into glass bottles of different shapes, and use the plasticity of sand to pile up colorful desert wonders in the bottles as gifts for relatives and friends.

2. Later, it gradually developed, screening ordinary sand, and then dyeing, drying and rolling the sand evenly. Petra, the ancient city of Jordan, is called "the city of roses", with brown, red, orange, purple, light blue, yellow and green rocks. The twisted strata of rocks with different colors form spiral and wavy color curves on the rock surface.

Tourists can't see the wonderful scenery there for a week, so the clever Petra came up with the idea of grinding rocks of different colors into stone powder and putting them into various glass bottles to outline the different patterns of Petra, so that guests can recall and appreciate the charming scenery endowed by nature at any time through sand bottle painting after returning home.

Third, the status quo.

1. You need to practice your skills first, but you should also have rich imagination. Beginners begin by drawing desert scenery such as camels and cacti. On the streets of some tourist cities in Jordan, artists also make sand bottle paintings. Under the gaze of foreign tourists, the artist gently fiddled with the utensils in his hand and rubbed the fine sand in his hand. The sand slowly flowed from his fingers into the bottle, so he was absorbed.

It seems that I am not drawing, but telling a touching story and depicting a long history. Some people say that these artists paint not so much to make money as to express their feelings through painting.