Ania Tomicka

I don't work with yellow. My palette has only Yellow Ochre and sometimes Naples Yellow, but it's rare. Since I recently received the Hansa one from Schaal, and I wanted to understand these two pigments properly, I ran a deliberate experiment and wrote down what I found. I decided to compare the two since multiple sources state that Hansa is the non-toxic equivalent of Cadmium. Hansa Yellow (PY74) Warm, bright, transparent azo pigment (photo by Schaal) Cadmium Yellow (PY35) Warm, dense, opaque...

As a painter, I am always curious about how the same pigment can behave differently depending on the brand, the formulation, and the medium it is ground in. Recently I found myself with three different pyrrole reds: two by Schaal (one of which has since been discontinued, and its newer replacement) and one by Michael Harding, alongside a Schaal cadmium red. It felt like the perfect opportunity to compare them properly: not just pyrrole against cadmium, but pyrrole against pyrrole, because...

Throughout the history of art, the nude has always been a form of language. It is the purest matter through which the artist tells the essence of being human, stripped of roles, eras, and social identities. Laocoön and His Sons , by Agesander , Athenodorus and Polydorus of Rhodes (2nd century BC), Pio-Clementine Museum , Vatican. As a genre, the nude is a complex subject to approach due to its many variations: formal, aesthetic, and iconographic. Some art historians even consider it to be...