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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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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday April 02 2018, @01:27PM (1 child)
Can spend weeks on trends.google.com looking things up to see their cultural position.
Facebook right now is about where myspace was at the end of 2010... not good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:24PM
How can you say that? It's valued in the billions! Billions I tell you.
So, has the social network guy dumped his shares yet or wut