{"id":20529,"date":"2026-01-16T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:12:06","slug":"we-need-colour-in-a-black-and-white-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20529","title":{"rendered":"We need colour in a black and white world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January 16, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This title is not referring to current chaos in the world, but to art. Art tries to bring some colour and serenity in a landscape that, here in Ontario, Canada, has reverted to monochromes after 50 centimeters of snow! It is the biggest load I have seen in a long time and the predicted temperatures for the coming days are getting close to the first few winters after we moved to Canada in 2014. I remember house hunting with day temps of minus 30! The predictions for tomorrow speak of minus 24…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no more of that. As pretty as virgin snow is, I still prefer warmer weather. I know it will come, it always does, but the end of May still seems like very far away. So, I wanted to bring some colour to this day. I named this new work ‘The Mask’. There is no special meaning to it other than working with my favourite colours and of course including a pair of eyes. You can interpret it anyway you like. I was content with the results! Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acrylic on a flat piece of canvas. Unframed as yet. And it is for sale!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 16, 2026 This title is not referring to current chaos in the world, but to art. Art tries to bring some colour and serenity in a landscape that, here in Ontario, Canada, has reverted to monochromes after 50 centimeters of snow! It is the biggest load I have seen in a long time and the predicted temperatures\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-blog"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Artist's Blog<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Artist's Blog<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 months ago","modified":"Updated 4 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20533,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}