They say that there are two types of artists. Natural born artists, and the ones that work hard and invest a lot of time and effort to eventually become artists.
Joseph Kraham considered himself a "horrible" artist, as he didn't know how to draw, paint or shade. However, everything changed in 2014 when he and his wife experienced the death of their precious Great Dane. At that moment, Kraham decided to memorialize their pet using LEGO. And this is how it all began.
“It was just supposed to be that one piece, and then I’d be done,” Kraham said. “But here I am, three years and 40 pieces later.”
Since then the artist, who is also a full-time engineer and father of three, started to create intricate LEGO mosaics that he donates to charities or popular Houston athletes like Jose Altuve. Over the last three years, Kraham has spent approximately 2300 hours on his artwork.
He specializes in pointillism - an art style in which small, distinct colored dots form the whole image. He does everything from scratch and uses his own technique that involves painting the LEGO pieces with Acrylic Lacquer aerosol spray and a brush.
Curious about his artwork? Scroll down the page and see it for yourself!
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You have a special talent! Just curious - how big are these? If the bricks were average size, some would be at least ten feet!
It feels like I'm back in 1995 watching pictures on netscape navigator...
We went to see "Art Of The Brick" exhibition when it came to town. "Girl With A Pearl Earring" among other works were done in Legos with a slight 3-D affect. Those were incredible. The attention to detail and colors used in making these are truly stunning, I would like to see these on special exhibition some day as well.
Amazing work! Looks like pixelated pictures. I wonder how much all these LEGOs cost him. And how much time he spent planning the artwork, making sketches, choosing the right colors and how much he needs from each one etc. and then how much time on the actual work putting it together
This is nothing exciting or impressive. The "artist" merely used one of the half dozen or more apps out there that let you take an image and convert it to a pattern. Most of them let you limit to standard brick colors or choose your own palette, and a few of them let you combine "pixels" into any of the available brick sizes. This is something every AFOL has done at least once.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lego+mosaic+app&oq=LEGO+mosiac&ie=UTF-8
Load More Replies...You have a special talent! Just curious - how big are these? If the bricks were average size, some would be at least ten feet!
It feels like I'm back in 1995 watching pictures on netscape navigator...
We went to see "Art Of The Brick" exhibition when it came to town. "Girl With A Pearl Earring" among other works were done in Legos with a slight 3-D affect. Those were incredible. The attention to detail and colors used in making these are truly stunning, I would like to see these on special exhibition some day as well.
Amazing work! Looks like pixelated pictures. I wonder how much all these LEGOs cost him. And how much time he spent planning the artwork, making sketches, choosing the right colors and how much he needs from each one etc. and then how much time on the actual work putting it together
This is nothing exciting or impressive. The "artist" merely used one of the half dozen or more apps out there that let you take an image and convert it to a pattern. Most of them let you limit to standard brick colors or choose your own palette, and a few of them let you combine "pixels" into any of the available brick sizes. This is something every AFOL has done at least once.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lego+mosaic+app&oq=LEGO+mosiac&ie=UTF-8
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