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
FOR SALE

LEGO® Minifigures 49: Swimmer

When I picked up this figure, originally to tidy her up, she was leaning forward on her stand. It occurred to me that she might be on a diving board, leaving forward, about to - literally - take the plunge. So that is how I have painted her.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
FOR SALE

Live Bands Every Week

I have plans to feature a more complete view of this public house in a bigger painting, but, for now, here is a small acrylic of its prominent advertisement for regular live music.

Bike at the Back

This bike caught my eye, so I took a photograph with the intention of painting it. Should I tell you that I didn't include all of the railings? I decided not to paint the ones in front of the bike. I didn't want to make it too difficult to spot!

EDIT: Renamed. "Bike at the Back" is catchier than "Bike round the back of the Compass," I reckon.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 5"
SOLD (in Bromley)

The folks at LEGO® , they say...

I sent an e-mail to LEGO, partly because I thought they might like to see my LEGO minifigure paintings, and partly because I wanted to enquire about their position on my representations of their product, and my use of the word LEGO. I also mentioned the possibilities of a future self-published book, and of greetings cards based on the LEGO paintings.

Lego Minifigures 48: Olympic Gymnast

This little figure is still basking in the light of London 2012. She belongs to my daughter, who has been asking me when I was going to paint her gymnast for quite a while now. Well, today it was an INSET (teacher training) day and I had some time off work, so we all sat down and did some painting (the children had some paint-your-own nested bird sets - like Russian dolls, but owls and penguins). And when I was asked to paint the gymnast again... well, it seemed churlish not to.

I considered painting her balanced on her beam... but that didn't seem to work terribly well with the square format.

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
FOR SALE