How we made the sunflowers out of LEGO® bricks
Even before coming to work on this set, Stijn was familiar with one of his country’s most famous artists.
“As someone from the Netherlands, you grow up being surrounded by Van Gogh,” he says.
“My parents are both educators in art history and growing up, we would visit museums often; but my love for Vincent truly blossomed when I worked on this project. It is one thing to visually look at his work, but then also to research his life and backstory was something else. It truly puts into perspective how talented he was.”
It was with great pride that Stijn began translating the work of this iconic artist into LEGO bricks.
But where do you start when you’re trying to make a 3D model of a painting?
“Initially, I worked on a very rough first concept sketch,” says Stijn.
“Obviously, with LEGO bricks, there is the possibility of going into a full 3D translation, but we decided to stay close to the original and limit the extrusion. Using our LEGO system as a medium, we look for existing elements that relate to the shapes and brushstrokes in the original artwork. This way we can decide the scale and size of the model.”