Going with the Grains / Andrew Clemens' Art

Just out, in the June issue of The Iowa Source (Fairfield IA), is this illustrated article on Iowa-born artist Andrew Clemens, and his extraordinary, highly-detailed paintings made of grains of sand. Near McGregor (where Clemens lived), there is a region of sandstone, called Pictured Rocks, where the sand has been naturally colored by the slow, moist seepage of iron and other minerals. That was the source of the colored sand which Clemens used to build his intricate pictures—on the insides of chemists’ bottles. more>>>