Mr. Tatsuo Horiuchi, 74-year-old Japanese used Excel spreadsheet to create impressive pictures below.
Excel is a tool to represent computational data. Therefore Excel's spreadsheet interface is quite simple with dry numbers, charts are boring. However, Mr. Tatsuo Horiuchi of Japan discovered a way to draw pictures on Excel and turned this spreadsheet interface into real works.
Horiuchi started using Excel after he saw people using this program to work
But Horiuchi never used Excel as an office software
"I see every user using Excel to draw a chart, I think I can use it to paint," said Horiuchi.
Horiuchi explained that he chose Excel because it was already installed in the computer
Mr. Horiuchi said that drawing on Excel is easier than drawing on Paint
Before retirement, he wanted to create something new
So he bought a PC and tested it with an Excel program
Horiuchi uses Autoshape features in Excel to draw pictures
His painting is a combination of many different layers
If you look closely, you will see each petal has its own shape
Horiuchi's paintings often depict outdoor activities
Mr. Horiuchi won the first prize in Excel Autoshape Art 2006
Horiuchi's paintings are on display at Gunma Art Museum in Japan
According to the Japanese PC Online news site, Mr. Horiuchi said he initially tried Microsoft Word but had difficulty calibrating the medium-sized paper, so he moved to Excel, software with automatic features. Reduce the size of the worksheet (worksheet) to fit the A4 paper size. Drawing in the spreadsheet application was very difficult at first but the ambition helped him to overcome and become a true digital artist and his works were exhibited at many exhibitions in Japan.
Tatsuo Horiuchi is not the first artist in the world to use Excel as a drawing medium. But unlike other artists like Danielle Aubert, he did not use Excel's cell fields to create paintings. Instead, Tatsuo Horiuchi uses Excel's AutoShape feature to draw complex shapes, then color to create Japanese paintings. He still believes that Excel is a great tool and that artistic paintings do not need complex solutions.
The artworks that Mr. Horiuchi created in Excel reflect the beauty of Japanese life and culture. From the fruits of his labor, Mr. Horiuchi proved to everyone that he has real talent in using software beyond its normal purpose.
