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44 Incredible Mosaics Made Using Thousands Of LEGO Pieces By Joseph Kraham
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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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And I’m over here, struggling to build a LEGO house!
Just gotta pick up the pieces...
You have a special talent! Just curious - how big are these? If the bricks were average size, some would be at least ten feet!
He used 38,000 LEGO pieces to make this art! 51408318_5...38ef16.jpg
Amazing!
It feels like I'm back in 1995 watching pictures on netscape navigator...
These are amazing - Thank you
These must of cost a fortune to make. Legos are so expensive.
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
STUNNING
Awesome. Reminds me of something we have called Ministeck
I'd love to see a video of the work itself! It looks amazing!
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
Well, aren't you a real Negative Nancy! I used to do cross-stitch, which uses the same 'block' system, and made some of my own patterns with a program similar to the apps you mention. Just because he didn't come up with the original image doesn't mean he isn't being creative. It also takes a great deal of patience and dedication to make something like this, so stop trying to put this guy down, ok?
Patient, yes. Art, no. None of the images he used were his own. Nothing here was his original creation. That's why I take issue with all the sheeple fawning over it. It's fine and commendable to have the patience and dedication to complete a paint by number. But it's not art. And it's not him I'm putting down, it's sheep like you.
I don't see Legos at all in these photos. They just look digital to me
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To be fair, it's not digital, but it's not impressive either. There's half a dozen or more apps you can get that you input an image/photo and it outputs a pattern and brick list. That's all this "artist" did.
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This dude has never been laid I can promise you that
Dude! XD
TJler is the eternal virgin.
And I’m over here, struggling to build a LEGO house!
Just gotta pick up the pieces...
You have a special talent! Just curious - how big are these? If the bricks were average size, some would be at least ten feet!
He used 38,000 LEGO pieces to make this art! 51408318_5...38ef16.jpg
Amazing!
It feels like I'm back in 1995 watching pictures on netscape navigator...
These are amazing - Thank you
These must of cost a fortune to make. Legos are so expensive.
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
STUNNING
Awesome. Reminds me of something we have called Ministeck
I'd love to see a video of the work itself! It looks amazing!
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
Well, aren't you a real Negative Nancy! I used to do cross-stitch, which uses the same 'block' system, and made some of my own patterns with a program similar to the apps you mention. Just because he didn't come up with the original image doesn't mean he isn't being creative. It also takes a great deal of patience and dedication to make something like this, so stop trying to put this guy down, ok?
Patient, yes. Art, no. None of the images he used were his own. Nothing here was his original creation. That's why I take issue with all the sheeple fawning over it. It's fine and commendable to have the patience and dedication to complete a paint by number. But it's not art. And it's not him I'm putting down, it's sheep like you.
I don't see Legos at all in these photos. They just look digital to me
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To be fair, it's not digital, but it's not impressive either. There's half a dozen or more apps you can get that you input an image/photo and it outputs a pattern and brick list. That's all this "artist" did.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
This dude has never been laid I can promise you that
Dude! XD
TJler is the eternal virgin.