Mimi Lind Rufe Shows us Hers!
3rd Submission in the Series “Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine”
Hi, Paul;
Would you accept photos from someone who was raised in Gloucester , but has lived elsewhere since being married ? I still have many ties , get home , and made sure that my children ( and now grandchildren ) could dive and swim off the rocks on the Back Shore .( It was a right of passage my father used to tell my siblings and me …. if we swam back , he kept us ) .
I have been a decorative painter most of my adult life , and now am painting on canvases and really going back to my roots and doing seascapes , many based on photos of Gloucester .
I had the good fortune of growing up in Gloucester many moons ago , and during a visit last summer , found out about GoodMorningGloucester.org . I found this blog , and really liked it .Fun . Now I will share a little . First , I have neither a FB or website for my work . I paint mainly for the joy of it after spending many years as a decorative painter . I do have my work electronically filed , however . .
I too like to see painters tools and toys , and see how they lay out their palette .
So this is me ! I am a paint slut ; I collect oil paints . My box was made by my husband and is quite large . I love white and not ashamed to say so . And I use baby oil to clean my brushes and thin my paints . No more fumes again !
My 3 children each have at least 2 paintings done of their favorite spots in Gloucester .
That is my joy . It is so simple .
Love to all who may remember me . Mimi Lind Rufe .
I enjoy Good Morning Gloucester and found your blog ..
Let me know and thanks !
Good Morning Gloucester 
Mrs. Rufe–thank you for showing us how you lay out your palette (When I was a kid, I thought a “palette” was a female pal, but apparently I was wrong–my apologies to all the girls I referred to back then as my “palettes”). And also for the lovely seascape…
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Thank you . That is too funny ! But then again you are a funny man … You look like Grover and you hate scrapple .Thank you for your complement ,Ian and Karissma have several of my paintings . Call me Mimi , friend of Ian and Karissma .
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very nice painting!
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Thank you !
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