Carabao Painting

Early on in my stay in the Philippines, I watched a sea lion paint a picture.

Recently, it seems that we somehow missed a carabao painting contest in Vigan. But this was something different:

As part of the Viva Vigan Festival of the Arts, local painters used carabao as their canvas, first applying a primer coat of water soluble white paint, and then painting a variety of scenes on top of that. Farmers feed the carabaos corn and hold them to distract their attention from the painters and to stop them from licking the paint, said a story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Carabaos, unlike horses, do not have sweat glands, the paper said, which is why painting them is possible.