Pedro Cuni
Pedro Cuni
Pedro Cuni is a visual artist, painter, muralist, and expert at paint media technology, color theory, and pigments. Cuni has exhibited his art internationally at places such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Spain. Not only an expert in the landscape of painting, Cuni is known for his work with ancient painting materials, having done chemical research at Cooper Union on Ancient Greek and Roman paintings. He currently collaborates the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo researching ancient Egyptian painting techniques. Cuni is the founder and director of the paint company Encaustic Cuni, which produces paint that was once used by Greco-Roman artists two thousand years ago. Cuni is involved in running and teaching workshops in major institutions across the world including Taiwan, China, Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the US.
Website: https://cunip.myportfolio.com
Classes with Pedro Cuni
Cuni Water-Soluble Encaustic Painting Techniques
In this class we will learn how to use water-soluble encaustic applied to different historical painting techniques. The renaissance use of chiaroscuro with transparencies and velaturas, the 19th century Academy technique of “alla prima” technique and the modern technique of impressionism, fauve, expressionism.
