Ania Tomicka

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...

Color mixing is an exciting journey that every painter experiences. For those new to oil paints, mastering the art of color mixing can...