Tough Going with Still Lives

This week, we thought we'd try painting "from life" again. 

Judith brought in 10 small vases 

filled with colorful flowers from her garden. 

We had to draw some guide lines for most of them,  

except this woman. 

She is deaf and smiles the whole time she paints. 

Look how she added the tiny holes in the "vase"! 

  (She did this totally on her own) 

Peg didn't believe she did this. 

Ten minutes after she did it. 

As eager as they are to come to this class,

 the idea of "painting" eludes most of them. 

They all have such unique personalities and needs, 

no matter what we come up with,

it works for some and not so much for others. 

This was a stretch for most of them. 

NOTE: 

I'm excited about the Alzheimers breakthrough in the news today!