LEGO Chess

That book the Blue Bishop was reading? It must have been Chess for Minifigures.

This will exist as a flexible, printed, magnetic game, but the image above is a mock-up.

The chess pieces are (in order of appearance):

• LEGO Minifigure 60: Red Tower Guard
• LEGO Minifigures 61: Red Knight
• LEGO Minifigures 71: Red Bishop 
• LEGO Minifigures 58: Red King
• Lego Minifigures 14: "Red Queen"
• LEGO Minifigures 70: Sweeping Peasant (Red)
• LEGO Minifigures 63: Red Peasant

 

• LEGO Minifigures 65: Blue Peasant with Flaming Torch
• LEGO Minifigures 57: Blue Peasant
• LEGO Minifigure 59: Blue Tower Guard
• LEGO Minifigures 62: Blue Knight
• LEGO Minifigures 72: Blue Bishop
• LEGO Minifigures 68: Blue Queen
• LEGO® Minifigures 56: Warrior King

LEGO Minifigures 72: Blue Bishop

You might think that this monastic-looking bishop is reading from the Bible. But I think it may be a different book...

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

LEGO Minifigures 71: Red Bishop

The bishops in my recent sub-series have been causing me some consternation. The clergy seem underrepresented in LEGO world (this is not a complaint; I am not a theist, and I'm reasonably certain that small plastic figures have little need for religious guidance). Then it occurred to me to make the bishops into monks, and with a little help from eBay and a Jedi knight, here is the first bishop. I expect his blue counterpart will turn up eventually.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

LEGO Minifigures 70: Sweeping Peasant (Red)

"Those blimmin' blue peasants, bringing bits of corrugated field onto my nice shiny tile, tossing it around with pitchforks and dropping ash everywhere! And who has to tidy it up, I ask you? Humph. There'll be trouble, mark my words."

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

Lowland Spring (Ashford Hill National Nature Reserve)

Yesterday was my first opportunity for a painting expedition this year. I thought to myself, surely the bluebells are out by now (they are late this year on account of spring being reluctant to show its face). So I laced up my boots and headed for the nearby bluebell woods.

There were some bluebells, but there were a lot more bluebell leaves. Maybe the woodland floor will be carpeted in blue next week...

So I kept on walking, getting slightly lost once or twice at the interface of the two maps I had with me. I was looking for a subject, but wasn't inspired enough to stop until just shy of two o'clock, by which time I was both hungry and concerned that I would run out of time.

LEGO Minifigures 69: Rainbow

And here is the Brownie's little sister, again using a little imagination to combine some of the elements.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
30 May 2013

LEGO Minifigures 68: Blue Queen

She may not have a crown, but she looks regal enough to be a queen

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
30 May 2013