Big LEGO(R) Ambulance Driver

Painted for an international customer, on commission; based on number 50 of the Minifigures on Canvas series - as shown above left. Her head was too big, so I changed the painting - as seen above left.

LEGO Minifgures 81: Builder in a Hi-Vis Vest

This is another old figure; he belongs to my sister, and I think he came with a little front-loading dumper truck.

LEGO® Minifigures 51: White-clad Astronaut on Eggbox Moon

This is another of my old minifigures. He dates from the early 80s and has several friends, all of whom are also wearing white space suits. I made him an eggbox set, initially because I didn't really want to paint white on white... Maybe I should have chosen a green eggbox.

Acrylic on canvas, 7x7 cm
SOLD

LEGO® Minifigures 50: Ambulance Driver

This is a very old minifigure. She was my first such toy, and - according to my son's copy of the Dorling Kindersley book, "Standing Small: A Celebration of 30 years of the LEGO minifigure", this model was also one of the very first sold. "Standing Small" has her birthdate at 1978 -which would be about right. She came with a small ambulance, which she didn't  actually fit in without some  vehicular modifications.  She's in pretty good nick, all things considered. The white plastic is a little discoloured (l tried to make it a different colour to the white tile background), and her legs are a little floppier than they ought to be.  But she's intact, and she still  has her sticker; LEGO hadn't started printing directly onto the bricks at this stage.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
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Lego Minifigures 2 & 3: "Blue Astronaut" and "Policeman" - BOTH SOLD

Here are the fruits of today's labours. I've decided that this series is allowed to break one of my cardinal painting rules, viz. don't use black. It's an accepted fact that there are scarcely any true blacks in nature (blackberries are a very deep purple, as anyone who's eaten them can testify; shadows are merely areas where there is less light, and charcoal is ... well, not quite natural, but you'll find dark greys and browns in most hunks of burnt wood, even the slow-burnt wood that is charcoal). But, let's face it, Lego isn't nature. It's plastic. So I felt perfectly justified in using some Mars Black plastic paint (a.k.a acrylic) to paint the black bits on the Lego figures. Of course, the highlights are another matter.

Lego Minifigure 2: "Blue Astronaut", acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm. - SOLD
Lego Minifigure 3: "Policeman", acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm. - SOLD

LEGO® Minifigures 1: "Girl"

This is the first of a new series of paintings, intended to appeal to the less serious art-shopper. I'm considering a stall at a one or two local Christmas fairs, and I decided to do a few small canvases because I was worried that my landscapes, being larger and representing more work, might have too high a price for the event. I'm also planning on getting some greetings cards of a couple of the landscapes printed.

I acquired a number of these very small canvases, almost on a whim, and their small size inspired me to select small subjects. Initially, I thought of flowers - very close up flowers, like the one in "Tulip" - but then it occurred to me that there were a number of iconic toys which might look well in such a small scale. I liked the idea of using a plastic paint (acrylics) to create an image of a plastic toy. I'm starting with Lego minifigures, although I may expand to other subjects. The minifigures are nice because there are many different characters to choose from, and they have a fairly broad appeal. I started with a fairly plain one - the only printing she has is her features - partly to keep it simple, partly because this is what minifigures looked like when I was a child.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7cm. SOLD