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R.I.P. David Bowie (1947-2016)

It was sad to hear of David Bowie's death this week, and I wanted to do something in LEGO form to pay tribute.

My other album covers are still a way off being ready for display, and I hadn't yet started on a Bowie cover of any sort. Since I had a large quantity of white bricks to hand I started with his final album, "★" (Blackstar).

The other cover I would like to recreate as a mosaic is "Heroes". In black, white, and two shades of grey it should still be recognisable at this 32 x 32 "pixel" scale.

Mosaics

I recently started my first foray into Lego mosaics. I don't have the bricks (or the money) for giant wall-sized ones, so I'm starting smaller. On a 32x32 baseplate, to be exact.

At that scale, large images don't translate well down into 1024 total "pixels". A 32 x 32 baseplate is 10 inches square, and an LP cover is 12 inches. So I'm also starting smaller with my mosaic sources. The baseplate covers 70% of the area of an album cover, so the artwork is (mostly) recognisable when reduced down to a highly pixelated version.

Below are two work-in-progress examples.