The Art of Inner Painting *3min

In 2011, in a private home in one of the hutongs of Beijing, a young
woman lived with her grandmother in two small rooms without running
water or a bathroom. There are public toilets in the hutongs used by
all the residents of that lane.
 The young woman was a snuff bottle painter. She had been chosen as one of the vendors to have a stall at the Beijing Olympics.
This practice of painting the inside of bottles started when tobacco was banned but snuff was readily available.
Men carried their snuff in their pockets in tiny, flat bottles and got it
out using a metal tool that scratched the inside of the bottle, making
weird designs.
The artist in the video is doing a Chinese art form called Inner painting or inside painting. This involves glass bottles with pictures and often calligraphy painted on the inside surface of the glass. This is done by manipulating a specialized paint brush through the neck of the bottle. To paint the inside of the bottle, the artist must paint backward. Concentration is crucial to make precise strokes. A skilled artist may complete a simple bottle in a week while something special may take a month or more.
The best craftsmen may only be able to produce 85 bottles in a year, this is art at it's finest.