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 Hal Lasko, who discovered the software decades ago, using it to create paintings that resemble both pointillism and 8-bit art.

See also: Kid Creates Enormous, Surreal Picture in MS Paint [VIDEO]

Lasko, who spends ten hours a day paiting, has recently been featured on art blog Colossal. He has prints for sale online, 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

Topics: Hal Lasko, Lifestyle, Microsoft Paint, Work & Play