Art practice

Cool art stream from Mikko that follows his painting a nice looking house with pastels.

Year long art challenge with weekly tasks, starting from basic and steadily getting more advanced. Emphasis on volume.

Great looking paint-along course from Mikko.

Sashiko (刺し子, lit. 'little stabs') is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery or stitching used for the decorative and/or functional reinforcement of cloth and clothing. Owing to the relatively cheap nature of white cotton thread and the abundant nature of cheap, indigo-dyed blue cloth in historical Japan, sashiko has a distinctive appearance of white-on-blue embroidery, though some decorative pieces may also use red thread.

– Wikipedia article on sashiko

Image: Detail of a mid-19th century kimono decorated using sashiko, with white cotton threads on an indigo-dyed plain weave background (Metropolitan Museum of Art)