Grandma, 87, creates amazing art pieces using Microsoft Paint
Concha García Zaera has been using an old computer to create paintings of beautiful landscapes using the Paint application. Her work has made her an internet sensation, and won her over 900,000 followers.
Before computer games and social media, there was not much to do on a PC besides playing solitaire. Those who were determined to make the most of their home computer's features ventured into the realm of Microsoft Paint.
Once you decided what picture you wanted to work with and you figured out the choppy brush strokes, you could spend days perfecting your piece of art. Or, if you didn't have the patience for mouse-click art, you would give up and go back to playing Minesweeper.
Over the years, computers have become more advanced and many applications have fallen away. But luckily for Concha García Zaera, a woman from Valencia, Spain, Microsoft Paint was still part of the package on the old computer that her granddaughter gave her.
Concha, who took oil painting classes in her youth, started creating art pieces on the old program, and the results have been very impressive.
Concha only had a few hundred Instagram followers, but when a new fan shared her account on Twitter early in March, Concha shot to internet fame.
She paints buildings, bridges, and beaches using pictures that she finds around the house as inspiration. She told the Daily Mail: "I have no imagination at all, so I get inspiration from the postcards that my husband used to send me or drawings that I find and like."
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Is anything you ever drew using Microsoft Paint as elaborate as Concha's pieces?
Concha enjoys the simple beauty of her Paint creations.
And while she may now be internet famous, the humble grandma is still unsure about what it is that has drawn so many people to her account: "I do not understand very well why my drawings draw so much attention, I think they are very simple things."