{"id":76,"date":"2026-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/a-winter-on-the-river\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:29","slug":"a-winter-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/a-winter-on-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A winter on the river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The River Year commission asked for one painting in each season. Winter was the second visit, and the one I was most worried about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paint in the cold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below freezing, oil paint goes stiff. It does not freeze, but it moves like cold butter. I kept the tubes in my coat and the palette on a hot water bottle, which works better than it sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large alignwide\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"A calm winter river with snow on the bank and bare trees in low sun.\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-2048x1323.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/landscape-winter-river-1280x827.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">River, January. Painted on site in the morning and finished in the barn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Snow is not white<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The snow in that painting has no white in it at all, except for one stroke on the water. It is blue gray in the shade and a warm cream where the sun hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you paint snow white, you paint paper.<\/p>\n<cite>From the studio notebook<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days at minus eight, a borrowed barn, and what cold does to oil paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,50],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio-notes","tag-commission","tag-river","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}