“D’you know I do a lot of my painting with my eyes shut?”

Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired.

Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art.

He is joyous and contented.

Meet 98-year-old Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter. See more of Hal’s work at hallasko.com

Filmmakers: Josh Bogdan & Ryan Lasko

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, 5 And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain. 10

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918


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