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1: Vietnam Art - The Complex Minimalism of Le Thiet Cuong
Le Thiet Cuong's latest exhibition is "Lan's Story", a story about women in the war. Paintings displayed at this exhibition show a simplicity. Cuong is the first Vietnamese painter to use an irreducible style so his artworks are said to be easy to understand

2: Art Canvas Prints Giclee
Giclée, is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée", from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art.

3: Own Oil Painting Masterpiece.Portraits From Photos
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject, most often a person. Now everybody can have own masterpiece oil portrait at his home created from photos.

4: Portrait of a Westminster Winner
Drew Thurston was eager to tackle his latest commission-- painting the official portrait of an internationally famous star.�I love the painting...This is stunning,� says the portrait�s new owner

5: Process of Oil Painting
The process of oil painting varies from artist to artist, but often includes certain steps. First, the artist prepares the surface. Although surfaces like linoleum, wooden panel, paper, slate, pressed wood, and cardboard have been used, the most popular surface since the 16th century has been canvas, although many artists used panel through the 17th century and beyond.

6: Canvas for painting. Stretched canvas
Canvas has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels of about 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, which is very early indeed for oil painting also.

7: Painting and oil painting
Painting:
Painting, meant literally, is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, the term "painting" means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.


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