She might very well be. Using Gimp for content creation for some time could make her an expert (especially a fast learning and seemingly quite intelligent kid). Though painting itself isn't the main usecase gimp seems to want to support.
Though like so often: Only because a software wants to support a specific target doesn't mean it will be completely unusable for doing everything else.
Though like so often: Only because a software wants to support a specific target doesn't mean it will be completely unusable for doing everything else.