Legally blind man makes art masterpieces with Microsoft Paint

Courtesy: FOX 8

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio ? A 97-year-old man has become an Internet sensation known as ?Pixel Painter?.? FOX 8 in Cleveland reports that Hal Lasko suffers from condition called Wet Macular Degeneration, which forced him to give up painting. Undaunted, Lasko turned to an unlikely source to reinvigorate his passion: Microsoft Paint from Window 95.

?I had to give up painting because when the brush meets the point where it?s important, that?s where I lost my eyesight. And as my eyesight deteriorated, I turned more and more to the computer because I can blow it up,? Lasko said.

Lasko is a former graphic artist who did everything by hand. Now with the aid of a computer he has created more than 600 digital art pieces. Microsoft Paint allows him to zoom in on the pixels to refine his work.

Lasko turns 98 on Sunday and to celebrate he is selling paintings of his website for $98 with 10 percent going of the proceeds going to benefit Veterans of Foreign War programs.

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Source: http://fox4kc.com/2013/07/27/legally-blind-man-makes-art-masterpieces-with-microsoft-paint/

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