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Cadmium Yellow 60ml

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Colour Index	77205
Fastness to Weathering	5
Lightfastness (1-8)	7
Opacity/ Transparency	O
Size	60ml

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Bringing back water soluble encaustic, the beautifully vibrant artist paint used by ancient Greek and Roman artists. Now available in our online shop.

In this video Pedro Cuní demonstrates how to pain

In this video Pedro Cuní demonstrates how to paint with watercolour using Cuní Water Soluble Encaustics. Once complete, the painting can be finished by brushing to heighten brightness and vibrancy, highlighting the extraordinary quality of the beeswax.#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #beeswaxpainting #encausticcuni #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #pedrocuni #watercolour #cuni #cunipaint #encaustic

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni #beeswaxmedium #beeswaxpainting #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #watersolublewaxpaint #watercolour #waxtempera #mural #muralpainting #wallpainting #artiststudio

#phthalogreen #cinnabargreen #cobaltblue ##titaniu

#phthalogreen #cinnabargreen #cobaltblue ##titaniumwhite #rawsienna #maroonoxide #lightbrown #burntumber #rawumber #darkbrown #carbonblack

The school of Apelles. Jean Broc, 1800.Apelles o

The school of Apelles. Jean Broc, 1800.Apelles of Kos (4th century B.C.), was one of the most renowned painters of ancient Greece. Much of what is known of Apelles is derived from Pliny the Elder (Natural History, XXXV). According to Pliny, Apelles used the encaustic technique for his paintings. Some ancient texts seem to corroborate the notion that artists used a cold water-soluble encaustic, as it allowed the drawing of thin and long lines and could be cleaned with a sponge.The Greeks had considered easel painting as the superior art form. In Greek tradition painters were wall-painters or pinake-painters, the last indicating painters of small size pictures, made in encaustic.#watersolubleencaustic #encaustic #apelles #plinytheelder #greece #coldencaustic #coldwaxmedium #beeswax #beeswaxpainting

Pompeian paintings have deteriorated successively

Pompeian paintings have deteriorated successively or even disappeared due to badly performed conservation but mainly due to a lack of maintenance.One example is the decorated room with garden paintings from the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, just outside Rome, which has been exposed to an incredible amount of interventions. The restoration history of the garden paintings is astonishing. They were exposed to a great number of interventions, until 1951, when they were finally detached and moved to Museo Nazionale Romano. Among the different surface treatments made on these paintings can be mentioned cleaning with bread with alcohol and various solvents, various applications of fluid wax and paraffin diluted in turpentine. It is a wonder that anything of the paintings remains. It must be said however, that on every occasion, the methods used were accepted by those persons responsible, i.e. thought to be adequate and, hopefully, harmless interventions. Time has shown they were not.#pompei #roman #wallpainting #mural #conservation #villaoflivia #museonazionaleromano #gardenpaintings #napoli

Cuní colours allow diluted brushstrokes with high

Cuní colours allow diluted brushstrokes with high color intensity. The paint spreads easily, allowing beautiful brushstrokes with clean tones comparable only to watercolor. After brushing the work, gloss is similar across both diluted and dense brushstrokes, making varnishing unnecessary.
#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #cuni #beeswaxpainting #encaustic #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #beeswax #watercolour #waxtempera #brushtroke #paintingwithwax

Casa della Venere in conchiglia, Pompeii. Garden p

Casa della Venere in conchiglia, Pompeii. Garden painting. The "horti" were private places for wealthy Romans, pleasure gardens within the city walls, created for resting and pleasure as a contrast to public life at the Forum. According to Pliny the elder, Epicurus was the inventor of such gardens, and Epicurean ideals were important in planning the garden as a place of retreat from the politic life in public in favour of tranquillity and spiritual preoccupations. Paintings representing gardens were often part of the setting, made on the garden walls as imaginary enlargements of the real garden. As the fresco technique is unsuitable for outdoor areas, they were probably painted with water soluble encaustic.
#watersolubleencaustic #archaeology #history #art #ancienthistory #garden #napoli #italy #naples #culture #rome #ancientart #pompeii #encaustic #coldwax #mural #muralpainting #wallpainting #casadellavenereinconchiglia #plini #epicure

Portrait of a woman. Antinoopolis, Egypt, 138-161

Portrait of a woman. Antinoopolis, Egypt, 138-161 AD. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France.
Infrared studies of the paint medium in these work indicate that it was painted with water soluble encaustic.
The Fayum portraits are excellent examples of portraits painted with hot encaustic as well as with water soluble encaustic.
#watersolubleencaustic #fayumportraits #portraitofawoman #romanegyptian #ancientegypt #fayoum #egyptian #encaustic #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #beeswaxpainting

#cadmiumyellow #titaniumwhite #cobaltblue #phthalo

#cadmiumyellow #titaniumwhite #cobaltblue #phthalogreen #cinnabargreen #rawsienna #carbonblack #watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #cunipaint #beeswaxpainting #coldwax #coldwaxmedium

The wall paintings discovered in 1995 at the Copti

The wall paintings discovered in 1995 at the Coptic monastery Deir elSurian in the Libyan desert, were painted using a wax painting technique. The colours appear brilliant and vivid and the smooth surfaces of the paintings have a particular lustre, which indicates that the paintings were probably made with water soluble encaustic.
As it is often the case, it’s the lack of accurate chemical analysis on ancient paintings that hinders the work of conservators.
#watersolubleencaustic #encaustic #coldwax #beeswaxpaint #beeswaxmedium #waxpainting #copticchurch #deirelsurian #coldwaxmedium #libyadesert #Libya

Cuní water soluble encaustic demonstrates high du

Cuní water soluble encaustic demonstrates high durability, as evidenced by the state of conservation of ancient works painted with this technique.
#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #beeswaxpainting #coldwaxmedium #encaustic #romanwall #romanwallpainting #villadeivettii

Passion of the day: American artist Heather Dougla

Passion of the day: American artist Heather Douglas is a multitalented artist specializing in landscapes. She experiments with all sorts of mediums from drawing and painting to ceramics, sculpture, silkscreen, batik and photography. For this amazing view of the George Washington Bridge in New York in 2019, she applied encaustic paint on top of Cuní colours, followed by a toner transfer. We love 😍
@hldouglas_art #watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #beeswaxpainting #encaustic #encausticcuni #beeswaxmedium #beeswax #coldwax #coldwaxmedium

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #beeswaxpainting #beeswax #watersolublewaxpaint #watercolour #waxtempera

Chung-Shih Wang. Cuní Water-soluble encaustic and

Chung-Shih Wang. Cuní Water-soluble encaustic and oil on canvas. In this beautifully atmospheric piece 'A Stroll in City', Wang conveys the sensation of Taipei's humid atmosphere in an imaginary urban scene. He used the optical qualities of water-soluble encaustic - brightness, transparency and colour intensity - to great effect to visualise the city's fast pace. The incorporated Chinese character is taken from Taipei’s “slow down” traffic signs, encouraging to try and escape the relentless speed of urban life occasionally.
#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #beeswaxpainting #coldwax #coldwaxmedium #beeswax #encaustic #taipei #chinesecharacters #watercolour #canvaspainting #urbanscene

Cuní water-soluble encaustic offers plenty of adv

Cuní water-soluble encaustic offers plenty of advantages compared to oil paint, for example much shorter drying times, gloss retention in diluted strokes, contains no toxic solvents, is odourless, extremely easy to clean and can be applied on paper.
#cunicolours #watersolubleencaustic #encausticcuni #beeswax #beeswaxpainting #wax #coldwax #coldwaxmedium

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni

#watersolubleencaustic #cunicolours #encausticcuni #cuni #beeswaxpainting #beeswax #coldwax #coldwaxmedium

Lady in blue. Tanagra, Greece. Terracotta painted

Lady in blue. Tanagra, Greece. Terracotta painted with water-soluble encaustic. 330-300 BC. Height: 32,5 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.The small Tanagra figurines were named after the site in Boeotia in east-central Greece where they were found, dating primarily from the 3rd century BC. The main subject matter of the statuettes are well-dressed young women in various positions, usually standing or sitting. On occasion they are depicted pulling their garments around them closely, veiling their face, wearing a hat or holding a fan or mirror.#watersolubleencaustic #tanagra #terracottafigurine #terracotta #louvre

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We very much would like to thank you all for your

We very much would like to thank you all for your continued passion and support in our endeavour to keep Watersoluble Encaustics, one of the most ancient and beautiful paint mediums, available to all. It is your passion that makes us tick. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a smashing 2024! Your Paint Club Team

Apelles painting a portrait of Campaspe, Alexander

Apelles painting a portrait of Campaspe, Alexander's lover. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Oil on canvas. 1725. 42x54 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Ancient texts relate that Apelles (4th century BC) painted in encaustic.All of the works of Apelles, the“silent poet,” perished long before the Renaissance. Neverthe-less, his legend, or literary image, survived largely in the Natural History of Pliny the elder, who claims that Apelles “surpassed all painters who were born before him and all who came after” him.#watersolubleencaustic #encaustic #encausticpainting #coldwax #apelles #pliny #ancientgreece #tiepolo #alexander

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