Wednesday, July 24, 2013

This 97-Year Old Man Creates Beautiful Artwork in MS Paint

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By Stan Schroeder2013-07-24 10:08:24 UTC




Talk about making it hard on yourself: Hal Lasko, a legally blind 97-year-old man is using Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create his artworks.



MS Paint, especially in its older iterations, is Microsoft's notoriously feature-absent drawing program -- in fact, it's so basic that creating anything worth looking at with it is a challenge in itself.



It doesn't really bother , who discovered the software decades ago, using it to create paintings that both pointillism and 8-bit art.



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Lasko, who spends ten hours a day paiting, has recently been featured on art blog Colossal. He has , and is having his work shown in an exhibition for the first time.



How do you like Lasko's artwork? Share your thoughts in the comments.



Thumbnail image: Hal Lasko

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