The Love mosaic we built for the Hope Gala was our second mosaic to build. We saw this idea of a Lego mosaic last summer, and started with a different Chinese character, “Fu”. This Chinese word has the meaning of good fortune, good luck or blessing. Traditionally, this is given to newly married couples and others who you wish to bless. It is often woven into a … [Read more...] about A Mosaic of “Blessing”
Mosaics
Ai Mosaic, Pt 6 – Building the Mosaic
You’ve got the design, you’ve got the parts. Now to build the Mosaic! This is, I think, the truly fun part of Lego… getting to build with it, create some wonderful thing and see the 3-D thing before your very eyes. The first issue we ran into was having the design to follow for building. We don’t currently have laptops, it’s all desktop and tablets around here. Nor do we … [Read more...] about Ai Mosaic, Pt 6 – Building the Mosaic
Ai Mosaic, Pt. 5 – Ordering the Parts
Ai Mosaic, Pt 5, Buying in the Parts. In the last installment of this series, we figured out our color palette and created a wishlist for the final set of parts needed for the mosaic project. In this section, I’ll tell you about how I ordered the items on that wishlist, while aiming to keep our costs down. I placed my orders through BrickLink. Even though I find BrickOwl … [Read more...] about Ai Mosaic, Pt. 5 – Ordering the Parts
Ai Mosaic, Pt. 4 – Color Palette
The Color Palette Colors are a big deal when creating a mosaic, especially if you want to keep the costs reasonable. In this post, I’ll tell you about how we took the image that Rachael had created thus far, and then edited it to make sure it was something we could realistically afford to build. When I first looked at the wishlist and clicked BrickLink’s “buy all” … [Read more...] about Ai Mosaic, Pt. 4 – Color Palette
Ai Mosaic, Pt. 3 – Editing the Design
To edit the design, I first downloaded the design, from the My Baseplate in bricklink.com, via the ‘download creation’ button. This gives you a ‘.mo’ file that can be opened in stud.io. This the mosaic file that will bring the design into stud.io. Yes, another bricklink.com program. Why stud.io? Why not LDD (Lego Digital Designer)? I found the learning curve with stud.io to … [Read more...] about Ai Mosaic, Pt. 3 – Editing the Design
