Journal RevMike's Journal: My son, the artist 2
So Joe has been pounding away on OpenOffice Writer lately. He mostly likes to take things from around the house and copy the words in. Today, however, he made up a new game.
OOo Writer has a "paragraph background" feature that allows one to set the background color for that paragraph. Today, he made several blank lines and started setting the color for each. Starting from the top, he made a band of light blue, a band of bright yellow, about 5 more bands of light blue, then a band of green.
Then he called me over and said, "Look. I made the world. Here is the grass, the sky, and the Sun." I was shocked. It was very 20th century abstract art. Very cool.
Nice. (Score:2)
Although discovering it on his own may be cooler, actually.
Writer will let him color individual letters, won't it?
Ethelred waves his cane (Score:2)
Heh. ASCII art was the first thing I thought of, largely because that's just what I was doing as a kid. My mom often took me with her to her studies and to her job, so often all I had to do was play with the IBM Selectric typewriters, and I made my own objets d'art on them all the time.
Fancy-pants kids with their new-fangled computers these days. Pshee!
Cheers,
Ethelred