Friday, November 13, 2015


We are a group of ladies who have been together for many years. At first Judy Moolenschot was our teacher, helping us to find our own voices and creativity, but now she has decided to go back to making her own artwork  and we all get together once a week to potter along on whatever takes our fancy artwise. However Judy cannot completely silence the teacher within and still conducts workshops with us sometimes. We have enjoyed the journey of finding our own different styles and talents and delight in learning new techniques and skills.

The place where we meet is a hall belonging to the Lions Club of Tokai, which is surrounded by a business selling compost (hence our group’s name).

Occasionally we all work on something together, whether it be a workshop or a project.

As we are all busy people, this blog is not complete yet, but we hope you will enjoy reading a bit about us, and check it from time to time to see if anything new has come up.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Blog training

Group training to use the blog

We have set up a blog training date on the 4th of November at Judy's home.

Sonja, who set up the blog, will be showing everyone how to:

  • create new pages and posts on the blog,
  • format the content,
  • resize pictures for the web,
  • add content and images,
and answer whatever other questions come up.



Monday, June 8, 2015

Life Drawing

Drawing from life

Sketching our model

Quickies







Sketches

Sketches






Drawing Class 1

Drawing Class

Drawing each other

5-15 minute quick sketches







Collages

Collages



Session 2 2015


Still getting ourselves into the habit of painting, drawing, getting the eye-hand coordination working again.






Session 1 2015

Still Life

We started the year off getting our eye-hand coordination going again.





Identi-kits

Identi-kits

Our project for the day was creating what we called identi-kits.  We cut out eyes, noses, hair, and mouths of various faces in magazines, then mixed them up, chose a few from a container and rebuilt a face from this.  We then drew new faces from our collage.