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CUNI COLOURS
JUST PICK UP A BRUSH: No torches, no fumes, no fuss. Cuní Colours is a unique Water-soluble encaustic artist paint as used by artists in Ancient Greece and Rome. Cuní Encaustic behaves like a rich, blendable watercolour - made from pure beeswax, it requires no heat and is a multi-support paint, with great performance on both oil primers and acrylic or glue gesso.
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WHAT MAKES THIS SO DIFFERENT?
Traditional encaustic painting uses melted wax — hot plates, torches, special tools. Ours doesn't. Cuní Water-soluble Encaustic is beeswax in a water-soluble form: thin it with water like watercolour, layer it thick like oil or acrylic. No equipment beyond a brush and a jar of water. Brushes and equipment can be cleaned up with soap and water only.
A QUICK GUIDE TO ENCAUSTIC
WHAT IT IS, IN ONE BREATH
ANY BRUSH, ANY SURFACE - works on paper, wood, canvas and even wet mortar. It can also be applied on metal, glass and plastic. WATER-SOLUBLE: thin it, blend it, clean it up with water, without the need of any solvents. NON-TOXIC: made from ingredients found in cosmetics and food. COMPATIBILITY: Cuní colours can be blended with acrylic, oil, watercolour, casein and egg, glue and gum tempera colours and media.
CHARACTERISTICSA ‘NEW’ 2000 YEAR OLD PAINT
This is the exact paint artists held in their hands in Greco Roman antiquity. And it's a true colour bomb. 💥 No medium out there can bind that much pigment. This is the reason why the colours stay so incredibly vibrant even when watered down to the consistency of ink. DaVinci failed to get this lost formula right for his Battle of Anghiari, but thanks to the perseverance of the Cuní family, this paint is now back after 2000 years.
FREE UK SHIPPING OVER 60£
We are really in it to make this paint available to as many artists as possible, thus we're keeping our shipping rates down as much as we can afford. We offer free shipping on any order over 60£ inside the UK - don't forget to claim it at check out. For international shipping we are sticking to the lowest flat rate level we possibly can.
FOR THE CURIOUS
Renowned Spanish artist Jose Cuni has worked for half a century to
unlock the mystery of the evasive formula of the paint used by
ancient Greek and Roman artists. While on a scholarship in Naples to study the Pompeiian wall paintings in the 60s, he found a lead among the traditional stuccoists in the Naples area. In 1962, Cuní developed the formulation of the
water-soluble encaustic based on beeswax and soap, confirming its
outstanding quality and capacity to reproduce the execution features that characterise Roman wall paintings. Now his sons have taken up the baton to produce this historically important paint.
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