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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: 4, Informative) by Unixnut on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:25PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:25PM (#661231)

    Indeed, and the earlier (mid-00s) IBM thinkpad tablet/laptop hybrids actually had a wacom screen, meaning that you can repurpose the laptop as an excellent artists tool, for much less than the equivalent size wacom screen/tablet combo.

    As a bonus it was well supported under Linux too.

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