MOC: The Milkmaid

[Morphy]

My recreation of Vermeer's famous painting, c&c appreciated.

It helps to step back to see the colors blend.

This is my second attempt at a Vermeer LEGO mosaic.

[Slegengr]

This is interesting, Morphy! It does look good from a distance, as the pixels blend together.

Are these real bricks or digital bricks?

Nice build!

[Zerobricks]

Not bad! How many different colors did you use in total?

[Morphy]

These are pictures of real bricks. I used 24 different LEGO colors:

black, white, very light gray, light bluish gray, dark gray, dark bluish gray,

blue, dark blue, maersk blue, purple, dark green, lime green,

olive green, sand green, orange, bright light yellow, light aqua, tan,

dark tan, red, dark red, reddish brown, brown, and bright pink.

Edited October 8, 2014 by Morphy

[AmperZand]

Absolutely brilliant! Instantly recognisable.

I'm curious how you do it. Do you project an image of the painting and then place the LEGO plates using the closest available colour? Do you print it out and put the plates on top? Or is it completely free hand, done just by visual reference to an image of the original?

[viracocha]

Dear Morphy, as I like painting, LEGO and art I can't miss this theme.

As for my opinion there is no much craft or art here. We can see your good pixelization experience and brick color selection. But one can easily use every simple image editor for the first and perhaps bricklink for the second. I am sorry, there is nothing to comment here as long as there will be shown some intelligent or art work.

Anyway I appreciate your work on bringing together the painting and lego. good luck!

[Morphy]

Thank you for the comments. I've developed my own unique method which I'm continuing to improve. One of the things I'd like to do is offer an image-to-mosaic service. Using a familiar painting helps to demonstrate the fidelity of my method. With original art, there would be nothing to compare to.

Here's one my designs next to one generated with Floyd-Steinberg pattern dithering (an algorithm found in many image editing programs). The original image is on the left, my design is on the far right.

These orange images use digital bricks.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Morphy