Raw LLM Responses

A person I only knew for a short while but was very dear to me was another artist who was in his 90s. We connected with art studies and he told me of his time studying in Rome the traditional and classic painting and sculpture methods. He got to use ancient Roman sculptures and paintings as references and mostly painted everything in oil. One trip to his house I told him I wanted to show off my new tablet PC that I use to paint digitally. Despite his very classical and traditional background he was quite enthusiastic at the proposition of painting on a screen. He messed around on my tablet for at least an hour, color picking, painting thumbnails, testing the brushes, and just having a great time exploring. Halfway through his exploration of this new medium he started to cry. I went over and asked him what was wrong. He told me, he was sad he didn't have more time to learn this new way to paint. He knew he wasn't long for this world and I had just showed him a brand new way to think and apply his skills that he didn't have time to master. I gave him a list of free programs and told him to download them on his computer (he had a decent one to run them). He spent his final days painting a new acrylic painting for his daughter and exploring a new landscape of possibilities with digital media. He was right, he never had the the me to master it, but I learned a hard lesson watching him in his twilight. I want to be him on my last days. I never want to be afraid of new things. AI art doesn't scare me, I'm enthusiastically waiting until I can add it to my workflow, even if it takes until I'm 90 for it to work well.