[CraigLupine]

Hello,

My name is Craig Lupine. An American Artist who has great enthusiasm for the Japanese Culture; I practice Sumi-E as one of my art styles.

The reason I came to this site is to learn more on the Japanese Culture, I'm not good at looking up my desired information on Google because of a handicap of mine. Anyway, i thought someone in this forum would help me out with a question of mine.

I decided to take up a challenge for my arts-and-crafts skills. Making my own Kimono's out of cotton instead of silk. The reason I came up with this challenge was something inspired by an artist I know on Youtube, "Henry Li" a Chinese Sumi-E artist. Anyway a saw him tape a video of him painting crows with acyrlic paints on tee shirts in Sumi-E. So I wanted to give that a try on Cotton Kimono's. I did it before, made a kimono out of an old pillowcase for a stuffed animal plushie which I painted a plum tree out of india ink, it was my first attempt that was a long time ago. However that's not what's bugging me.

A friend of mine who I told about this endevour suggested to scrap it, saying that Kimono's aren't meant to be painted on, even if there made as a blank canvas. I was wondering if any of you had an opinion on this matter. Any advice is welcome.