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Cuong NguYen

     Cuong NguYen is a figurative artist who is famous for painting realistic human portraits . It is said that his sometimes romantic and sometimes mysterious portraits and still life paintings reflect his positive outlook and determination to persevere . This is what makes him different from majority of the artists even though he had gone through hardships and poverty . Nowadays , Cuong NguYen works in both oil paints and pastels , he has reached a level where he can achieve smoothness of gradation  in using pastels without using blender at all . In oils , he aims for realism that never crosses the line to photographic . People see his paintings in a way that they reveal a fundamentally optimistic view of the world and a sense of wonder towards the beauty that surrounds us .

     In my opinion , Cuong Nguyen has trained himself to hold a good sense of colors and which helped him to achieve the realism he wants to show in his paintings . The fact that his greatest pleasure was to find time to draw has shown his passion towards drawings . Besides , it is revealed that he helped his family to earn extra livings at a young age by drawing portraits on streets . He has shown great determination to do what he loves to do , and now he is able to draw details of the portrait such as the eyes , hair and such .

Cuong's video on the glowing portrait : https://www.icuong.com/videos/







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