Artist Ksenia Gromova is a talented portrait painter; and, since 2017, she has been practicing smooth embroidery. Take a look at the incredible portraits she’s made with just a needle and some thread!
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dali
Catherine the Great & her favorite Grigory Potemkin
Marilyn Monroe
Joseph Brodsky
Sandro Botticelli's Venus
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Vincent van Gogh
Shakespeare (and poor Yorick)
Sergey Yesenin
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