While there is no opening reception for this show, it will be up for the month of February.
One of my students left this drawing behind last night! It is SO lovely! I’m saving it to return to her next week.
Remembering last winter when we had all that snow.
"Winter Composition" 16"x20" mixed media on canvas
"Paths, Real and Imagined" 30"x40" oil on canvas
Getting ready for our show at the Needham Public Library in February. I’ll post when it goes up.
Big News!
I’ve accepted a job as art teacher at Ursuline Academy in Dedham Massachusetts.
I wasn’t looking for a change, but when the opportunity came my way, it was such a perfect fit I couldn’t pass it up. Unfortunately, this means that I’ve suspended my offerings of morning and after school art classes. I have kept one adult evening class going, but by consolidating my morning group into the evening group, I have no openings for new students at this time.
I will miss the students I’ve been teaching, wonderful artists each and every one. But I am also very excited about the new students I am about to meet; and the opportunity to craft the art program for the school. 2012 appears to be full of new beginnings for the Rufos!
Dancers 18”x18” oil on canvas.
You can see this one hanging at Needham Dance Theatre. I did it early this fall, but never got around to posting it.
Town Common, 24”x24”, oil and mixed media on canvas.
I really appreciate the traditional New England town common with little shops around it. It is picturesque in all seasons (except perhaps mud season). Folks from my hometown might notice in this painting our newly renovated town hall.
I just dropped this painting, along with all those recent abstracts, and several other things, at Studio Hop in Providence (810 Hope Street
Providence, RI).
4”x4” oil on canvas.
This is just a little guy. Makes me think of olives and cantaloupe.
8”x8” oil and mixed media on panel.
Moon, planets, orbs, ladders, scribbles…
8”x8” oil and mixed media on panel.
I like the textures, the scratching, drawing into the paint.
8”x8” oil and mixed media on panel.
Fingers, toes, house, bubbles.
6”x6” oil on canvas.
The first set of paintings were really a study in cobalt and neutrals.
6” x 8” oil paint.
There’s less of the original drawing in this version.
6” x 8” oil paint.
Change of palette here. Also, I began with a blind contour drawing of a hand. There were two of these drawings, so I made both into abstract compositions.
6”x6” oil on canvas.
Reminds me of droplets on a glass slide, before looking into the microscope.
10”x10” oil and mixed media on canvas.
Beads? Eggs? Windows?
For friends who may not have heard the news…
After twenty + years of architectural design and planning I’ve launched my own practice with Michael Wang. Michael and I have been working together for the last fifteen years at Arrowstreet in Somerville, Massachusetts. As the economy begins to come around, we think the best time for successfully creating our own design studio is now. We’d like to extend our gratitude to the people of Arrowstreet past and present. We will be finishing project work there over the next few months, and with a spirit of mutual appreciation, will continue to look for ways to collaborate. 2012 ought to be an interesting year. Look for more info here on my blog and at our website: www.formandplace.com
Come see our work this Saturday December 3, 10:00-5:00, at the Rhode Island Convention Center at the RISD Alumni Holiday Sale. John will be manning our booth. If you didn’t blow everything at the Black Friday Sales, come on down and find something beautiful and unique. Great shopping for apparel, ceramics, glass, jewelery, paintings, drawings, and so much more.
6” x 12” oil paint
In one of the evening classes I taught last month, we worked on abstract paintings. I had the class start by choosing a magazine photo. We then cropped the photos in order to create interesting compositions. We worked out palettes and loosely duplicated the structure of the photo. Then, we worked over those images to increase the dynamics of the picture, and to explore mark-making.
This was my demo. It was such a fun exercise that I have found myself painting more of these. Not by working with magazines, but by using the shapes and marks that this first exploration produced. I’ll post the others in the coming days.
ps - this began with a photo series about how to thread your holiday turkey.