My Son's Smile

For those of you that don't know, I became a father for the first time(outside of his mother) on 12-21-09. My son, Kal-El Patrick Harrison, is such a wonderful little boy and the apple of his mother and my eye. Recently he has started really smiling at us and thought that could be a great visage for my first lego mosaic. So I took a picture of Kal-El.

 I turned it and cropped it and edited it down until I had something like this...

it took a lot of playing and tweaking to get it where I could use just the colors that I had the most of in lego and still be able to recknogize my son when i looked it the picture. After I had this image all set up I just had to build it, starting with the platform for it to go on... This was more of a challenge than I thought it would be, I do not have as many baseplates as I needed and so i had to splice them together... here is the back of the final result so you can see what I was dealing with to get a 44x44 base for this image.

Finally getting the base built I took to laying the brick for the colors... it was not too difficult of a job but it was time consuming. I suggest you take it a row or column at the time instead of trying to do all of one color, because it is very easy to get confused. Anyway here is the final result... 

You can see a lager version of it here.

Next week I will be doing something football related as the Champions League will be starting back.

Forza Milan!

Be Champions!