CUNI WATER SOLUBLE ENCAUSTIC
We are very excited to announce that Pedro Cuní has been commissioned to paint a mural in the stunning parish church of Pueblo Serrena, Monterrey, Mexico, using Cuní’s water soluble encaustic artist paint. The building was designed by renowned architects Belén Moneo and Jeffrey Brock, commissioned in 2013 and completed in 2015. Here is a…
Green for growth and harmony, blue for depth and stability. This ancient Roman mural of a lush painted garden covered the walls of a semi-subterranean chamber, probably a cool triclinium (dining room) for summer banquets, in the suburban Villa of Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus. Painted in 30-20 BC, the colours are amazingly still…
Red denotes prosperity and good fortune! The Inhabitants of Pompeii used red as one of the predominant background colours of the internal walls of their houses. This wall painting retains the freshness of colour it had when it was sketched in the 1st Century AD. The formula of the paint medium used was lost for…