Painting prodigy: Ghanaian toddler becomes world's youngest male artist

Ace-Liam Ankrah, a toddler from Ghana who turns 2 in July, has become the world’s youngest male artist, as confirmed by Guinness World Records.

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 I discovered Ace Leanne's passion for painting

00:21 around the age of six months.

00:23 And this was when I was working on a painting commission

00:26 from Miss Universe Ghana.

00:28 And I wanted a way to keep him busy

00:30 while I also did my paintings.

00:32 So I spread out a canvas on the floor and added paint to it.

00:36 And then in the process of crawling,

00:37 he ended up spreading all the colors on the canvas.

00:40 And that was when he created his first masterpiece.

00:55 Usually he'll spend as little as five minutes sometimes.

00:59 But he'll leave the work and come back to it later,

01:01 sometimes days, sometimes weeks.

01:03 So right now, my future plans for him

01:08 is to seek scholarship opportunities where

01:11 he will be found in an educational space

01:14 where his art could be nurtured, as well as probably working

01:18 with international galleries where

01:19 he could sell his artworks.

01:22 (upbeat music)

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