Bo sang umbrella village was another really unique experience here in Thailand. Watching the people here make the paper, carve the bodies of the parasols, tie them together and then hand paint them in stunning detail was a true work of artistry. Each painting started out as tiny blobs of colour on a blank canvas, little splodges that looked like melted skittles. And then they were layered over with different colours, each picked to match the perfect shade and huge of the one before it, until a simple blurred scene began to take shape.
Then, the clever part began. Taking tiny bags full of beautiful arrays of coloured acrylic, they would poke a tiny hole in the very edge with a needle, to release a thin stream of paint like the piping of icing on to a cake. And here the images began to really come to life with tiny details, the creases in a butterfly's wing, the chirruping beak of a blue bird. These were like miniature examples of tiny moments in life, born on the tip of a paint brush.
