These are the beautiful mosaic art from rice grain made by Vietnamese artist Duong Huu Cuong. Subject of their art mainly portraits, traditional landscapes, animals. Each work of art begins with the choice of palette, which consists of basic four colors – white, yellow, brown and black. Rice grains are selected carefully according to colors and size. Creating a beautiful rice painting requires lots of devotion and patience. It takes from six to twelve days to create a rice grain painting of 80cm x120cm. It's started with skecth of the future picture is applied to the base with a pencil, then grafts the colored grains with glue on the wooden frame to fit to the draft design. The most important step is to combine the colors of the grains in a harmonious way so that when matching together they will turn out a desired artwork. The final step is to dry the painting under the sun to make the grains attach and the painting more shiny and more vivid. It also helps protect the painting.
rice grain mosaic paintings
