Bonseki
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Bonseki is the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks.
A woman making a tray landscape showing the full moon. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1899
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Bonseki artist at work
Marmotinto
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Marmotinto is the art of creating pictures using coloured sand or marble dust and otherwise known as sand painting.
Balmoral in Alum Bay Sand, by M Carpenter
Georgian sand painting by Benjamin Zobel, c. 1800
Victorian sand picture of Steephill Castle by Edwin Dore