It's a shame there isn't a timeline. This appears to be the first image "boomerangs and blobs"? https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...

No way that was done by someone with no training. I call bullshit.

No training in what?

Also note that she mentioned „no formal training“. And she is a digital artist and knew how to code.

I missed all of that, thank you.

So that painting I my mind just went from "impossibly good for someone who's painting for the first time" to "mediocre".

Yeah it kinda puts the article in a different light. It is also is worded in a way that sounds like she was actually painting on canvas, which doesn’t seem to be the case as I understand.

„She immediately began painting. She had no training in art. But her hands just knew what to do. “It was fulfilling to connect line and form. I let things be guided by intuition,” she says. Two hours later, the canvas was covered in splotches of teal, brown, and orange. She titled her first piece “Blobs and Boomerangs.”

Definitely. "Splotches"

Lots of people make images like this as kids. You just draw overlapping shapes then use the paint bucket tool to fill in portions.

I don't know, pretty "meh".