They say you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. But, at the age of 80, after painting in oils all my life, I started an art course with the painter Uri Peretz in Beer Sheva, where I live. The course started with water colors and then acrylics, with an abstract approach. The idea is not to have a fixed idea of what you are trying to do, but rather add paint to paper, board or canvas and let random actions produce something. It can be purely abstract, or it can tend towards something real, like a person, a building or a scene in nature. This is the opposite to my previous approach that required a close examination of a subject and then an attempt to reproduce a facsimile of that as an image with paint on canvas. I found it hard to embrace the freedom of this approach and also difficult to make decisions to completely over-paint whatever had been painted to produce a different image. However, I persevered, and although I think Uri did not approve of my tendency towards representational art, nevertheless I hope I succeeded somewhat. Here are some of the paintings that I produced during this course.