Just go to monasteryicons.com and look...the icons are horrible and not canonical anyway, so who cares about letters and rumors. Just a cursory glance by an Orthodox Christian would be enough to let one know that this is not an appropriate source for icons!
No difference between writing and painting icons! Fr. Andrew Tregubov, one of the best iconographers living in America today, just laughs when he hears this distinction. The root words are all the same, it is just an unimportant semantic difference. His website is
http://www.iconmotif.com/store/
God bless,
Priest Matthew
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