This blows me away! There are those who say "I can't" and there are those who just "do". This man obviously has inborn talent that can't be supressed by disability.
On a side note, we were in one of our units yesterday and I saw some artwork by the resident. A 20-something man, who wouldn't strike you as artistic by looking at him or talking to him. Very overweight and his personality is a tad "goofy" and laid back. His art? Fantastic! He said he has been drawing since he was 3.
Be sure to check out "Grandpa's" web page that I've linked at the end.

Legally blind 97-year-old makes masterpieces with simple Paint app

When his eyesight started to go, 97-year-old Hal Lasko rediscovered his passion for art — thanks to the simple Paint app that comes with every Windows computer. Inspired, he now spends hours poring over pixels and creating art that is rich and evocative, yet unmistakably digital.

"I had paintings that I'd started that I no longer could work on, so I put them on the computer," Lasko told NBC News. "I found out that if I blew it up, I could see exactly what I couldn't see when I was painting."

Lasko was originally a "letter man" — or type designer — in the middle of the century when signs were painted by hand. (American Greetings still uses one of the fonts he created). But a condition called wet macular degeneration progressively damaged Lasko's vision as he grew older, and he is now legally blind — though he doesn't let that stop him from doing what he loves.

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The results are impressive, especially considering the tool he chose: Microsoft Paint, the super-basic app that comes free with every copy of Windows, was Lasko's canvas 15 years ago, and it still is today.

He tried more sophisticated programs but ended up sticking with what he knew. "To conceive a painting, it was much easier to keep it simple. I had had years to learn how to do this — so I just decided that this is my way. What I made was beautiful to me."

Many of Lasko's works can be viewed and purchased on his website; in honor of his upcoming 98th birthday, each piece is priced at $98, of which 10 percent will be donated to Veterans of Foreign Wars programs.

http://www.today.com/tech/legally-blind ... snhp&pos=6

http://www.hallasko.com/