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Re: Mona Lisa
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Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:06:15 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Arthur Gugick wrote:
   The Mona Lisa uses a pointillist style that I first saw in Roy Cook’s Aayla Secura Pointillist Mosaic winner of best mosaic at Brickfest 2006. My method differs slightly from Roy’s. Roy attached his 1x1 round plates to Technic bricks. I attached my 1x1 round plates directly to a plate beneath. Roy’s method allows more of the underneath color to “bleed” through than my method. My method allows the color to “bleed” more symmetrically.

The pointillist style allowed me to make my mosaic nearly the same size as the actual picture (21 inches by 30 inches)




Very impressive. I hadn’t seen this technique before, it rocks. Did you use a computer program to help you decide which color to use for the 1x1 rounds and the plate beneath or...?

Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG



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(...) Jason, Using MS Paint, I made and saved about 140 drawings of circles of various colors atop squares of various colors. I omitted combinations where the pieces were rare (1 x 1 orange plates, 1 x 1 round green plates, etc. ) After I saved all (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)

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The Mona Lisa uses a pointillist style that I first saw in Roy Cook’s Aayla Secura Pointillist Mosaic winner of best mosaic at Brickfest 2006. My method differs slightly from Roy’s. Roy attached his 1x1 round plates to Technic bricks. I attached my (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)  

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