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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-called-painting-after-all dept.

An octogenarian artist has charmed the internet with her pretty paintings — which she makes entirely with MS Paint.

Concha Garcia Zaera lives in Valencia, Spain with her husband. As a hobby, the 87-year-old likes to create artwork — but a while ago, she had to abandon the oil paints she preferred because the chemical smell contributed to her husband's health issues.

So the 21st-century grandma found a somewhat modern solution: She began fiddling with Microsoft's primitive Paint program, turning out surprisingly complex works of art with just a mouse and a screen.

She used facebook to share the drawings but her granddaughter said "there are only old people there" so she set her up with an Instagram account.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:16PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:16PM (#661167) Journal
    It'd be a really clever filter. Maybe like that Google project [thenewstack.io] that reversed neural nets that were trained to look for objects, like say, bananas, so that they turned pictures into images of the things they were trained to look for.

    So train the neural net on hundreds of Grandma's hand-drawn MS paintings, run pictures through it to get that hand-drawn look, and presto!