creative art network
At creative art network we can customise, design and build almost any LEGO® brick model or sculpture you require. From corporate branding including logos, icons and characters, to promotional models for that special event or launch. From the initial brief through to the sourcing of bricks and the building, creative bricks can produce an amazing LEGO brick model or sculpture that will interest and delight yourself and your clients or friends, what ever the occasion.
When I tell people that I meet I collect and build with LEGO® bricks, I usually get a strange look appear on their face, "You, um, play with LEGO?" They normally respond. As most people think LEGO bricks are just a toy for kids, they do not realise it can be used as a creative medium to build amazing sculptures and models, just as any artist uses clay or paint, as a LEGO brick artist, I use LEGO bricks. So when people actually see my creations, they are then overwhelmed with the feeling of awe and the memories from their childhood flood back. Usually they are then jealous that I get to use LEGO bricks as part of my every day work!
Having collected and created with LEGO bricks for around three decades, I have managed to build up a large array of skills and techniques to help create my sculptures and models. Using these skills, I have managed to design and construct everything from corporate logos, promotional items, replicas of house hold items, amazing architecture, right up to a life size chainsaw and line trimmer.
As I have been a creative person my whole life, it was only natural for me to become a graphic designer, and I have been now for around 20 years. This has helped me visualise, plan, and design my LEGO brick models and sculptures thus allowing me to bring them to life. Having worked in the creative industry for so long, has allowed me to aquire the skills and knowledge to be able to design LEGO brick sculptures and models on a commission basis form logos, corporate functions, promotional material, advertising and events.
So for any type of sculpture or model you may need, whatever the occasion, from an event big or small, promotion, launch, or just that special gift, get in contact with me and let me build you something unforgettable.
Swan Lake
White Swan
LEGO® Pieces: 68
Height: 130mm
Cost: $30 (AUD) plus postage
The model comes in 3 glued sections allowing the body to twist and the head to move. The arms are also positionable.
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Flamenco Dancers
Number of Bricks:
Approximately x140
Building time:
Approximately 3 hour
These Miniland Figures were built as part of a group of models for a dance studio in Melbourne.
The Flamenco Dancers consist of a male and female dancer in Spanish Flamenco costumes and are posable together or individually.
Break Dancer
Approximately x56
Approximately 1.5 hour
This Miniland Figure was built as part of a group of models for a dance studio in Melbourne.
The cool break dancer is posed in a typical break dancing position and uses hinges to make the body and limbs flexible.
Launched around a decade ago, my LEGO brick Kingdom is an online experience with knights, castles and an ongoing story.
Recently I re-released the online Kingdom at a new address with a huge response. My come back to the online LEGO community will hopefully inspire and enthuse many fans.
The annual Australian LEGO® exhibition, Brickvention, was held in January 2011. For the past almost eight months, I have been creating my latest castle, Drachenberg, to enter in the exhibition.
After taking almost sixteen or so hours to transport it to the exhibition and set it up, I was delighted to find out that I had won the Best In Show award!
I was recently commissioned to build a 1:1 scale model of a Stihl Chainsaw and Line Trimmer for an advertising agency in Melbourne Australia. The models were used in a nation wide print ad campaign to promote Stihl genuine parts. The concept was to use a lego model of a chainsaw and a line trimmer to tie in with the slogan, "If its parts aren't genuine, it's not serious".
On the weekend of the 15th and 16th January 2011, Melbounre was the host of the annual LEGO fan exhibition, Brickvention. As one of the regualr AFOLs (Adult Fan Of Lego) in Melbourne, I brought along my latest creation, Drachenberg Castle, to display at the exhibition.
After a day of taking the model apart and transporting it to the Melbourne Town Hall, where Brickvention was being held, I then spent almost the whole of Saturday putting it back together and getting it ready for the public open day on the Sunday.
With an array of amazing models and sculptures, from train layouts to huge ships, Brickvention 2011 was clearly the biggest LEGO event held in Melbourne, and also proved a big hit for the public too. When the doors opened at 9:30am on Sunday, there was already a line of dedicated LEGO fans going round the block!
With some fans returning from 2010, the turn out was massive. Around 8000 people came through the doors to view all the amazing LEGO models. I struggled through the day to talk to as many fans as possible and gave some technical and building advice to many up and coming builders from 6 to 60 years old. There were lots of ooohs and ahhhs over the whole day and so many big smiles on alot of children and parents alike.
The weekend was a huge success and I was over the moon with the amount of kind and uplifting comments I received about my model. Along with the public admiration, I was also awarded "Best In Show Award" for my Castle and received a trophey made of LEGO and a cool LEGO set.
Make sure you come and visit next year in Melbourne for Brickvention 2012. Visit the Brickvention website for more details: www.brickventures.com
I was recently commissioned to build a 1:1 scale model of a Stihl Chainsaw and Line Trimmer for The Foundry, an advertising agency in Melbourne Australia. The models were used in a nation wide print ad campaign to promote Stihl genuine parts.
The concept was to use a lego model of a chainsaw and a line trimmer to tie in with the slogan, "If its parts aren't genuine, it's not serious". Showing the powertools as LEGO brick models and not real items.
I was given a real chainsaw and line trimmer to base my models off. As I was limited in certain orange bricks, I built the model using red bricks that were digitally altered in post production.
The models were shot on location in a backyard shed in the Melbourne suburbs and then the photos were touched up and then dropped into the ads and posters.
The ad campaign was launched in May of 2010 and was very successful throughout Australia.
I also built a micro model, that was used on shelf talkers for suppliers of Stihl products around Australia.
Advertising Agency: The Foundry, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Directors: Annie Price, Pat Baron
Art Director: Matt Hine
Copywriter: Nathan Burley
Photographer: Hugh Peachey
Lego Artist: Kevin Hall
Around ten years ago I was inspired to create a place online that featured my LEGO brick castles and combined my graphic design skils with them. So after around a year of planning, building numerous castles, photographing them and editing the images, I launched the Kingdom of Andrastavia.
My website was an instant hit with thousands of people visiting and enjoying my models and reading my ongoing stories. Throughout the LEGO community, my name became notorious for my castles and photo editing. As no one had taken on anything on this scale, I was setting the bar for online LEGO stories by presenting them in a way that was not only enjoyable, but also educational.
After a few years of updates, new chapters and many images, the website was hitting around 3000 visits a month! Plus I was getting fan mail from all over the world from educational websites, history groups and alot of parents who ended up being fans after showing their kids the Kingdom. I also had a lot of fans ask if they could purchase some of my models or have instructions for them. So I decided to produce a small custom set that was featured in my online story, The Peddler's Cart. With its own instructions and custom torso, boxed up in a individually numbered box, the set was an instant hit and sold out as soon as I released them. I have since been working on a few more sets to release in the near future.
As other LEGO fans wrote their own story lines and created other online LEGO Kingdoms and web spaces, I made a lot of close friends who were fans of mine. One friend, Anthony Sava, suggested in creating a cross over chapter using his story line of Ikros (www.ikros.net), and intertwining it into Andrastavia. So we co-wrote a chapter and featured it on both our websites. This too was a huge sucess and is still talked about today.
Eventually, time caught up with me and I found it harder and harder to update the website on a regular basis, with the site eventually dissapearing after the hosting service closed down. Andrastavia then just became history and just a memory.
After many people blogged about the loss of Andrastavia and I still received email after email asking what happened to the Kingdom, I finally decided to re-release the website and upload it agian. a decade after the Kingdom was first released, it is back and online receiving a massive 2000 visits in just a week!
Make sure you go and visit my Kingdom and loose yourself in a Medieval world of mystery and magic. I am currently working on a re-design for the website and chapter 4 is being produced right at the moment. So stay tuned and save the website to your favorites: www.creative-art-network.com.au/Andrastavia
Whether for business or private use, a LEGO brick model can say so much! From birthday parties to table decorations, a LEGO brick sculpture or model will certainly add that touch of fun and interest to any event. From replicas of buildings to house hold items, almost anything is possible to create and display at your next event or even in your home.
For any corporate branding such as logos, word marks, characters, or icons, creating these out of LEGO bricks can make a great talking point or addition to your office reception or foyer. These can also be displayed at trade shows, corporate events and launches which add that touch of difference and uniqueness to your next event or company branding launch.
When promoting your business, product or even a service, why not add some creative flair into it and feature a LEGO brick model. As we all know, to get your product or your business noticed, you need something different to your competitors. Try using your product built form LEGO bricks to totally wow and engage clients and customers.
Drachenberg Castle and Village
Approximately x500,000
Approximately 800 hours
(7 1/2 months)
This medieval German castle and village was constructed for the annual LEGO fan exhibition Brickvention, in Melbourne Australia in January 2011.
Having taken almost 8 months to construct, the model is built over an area over two metres long by one and a half metres wide. And contains a church, inn, bakery, houses and even a 15th Century Gutenberg Printing press shop.
The castle and village was based off alot of German castles, villages and towns I have been to on my travels. Having down many hours research, the castle is actually built similar to a real castle with very thick walls and rooms typical of this era.
I was delighted to be awarded "Best In Show" for this model.
Llandaffwn Castle
Approximately 2500 hours
(18 months)
This huge white castle and seaside cliff face with a small church, was constructed for the annual LEGO fan exhibition Brickvention, in Melbourne Australia in January 2010.
Having taken almost 2 years to construct, the model is built over an area over two metres long by one and a half metres wide. And contains the castle with underground catacombs, a small church, houses, a beach, a flour mill with working water wheel and tunnels under the cliffs.
The castle and village was based off Welsh castles I have visited . The terrain was built first and the the caslte built into it.
I was delighted to be awarded "Second Place" for this model.
Norman Tower Castle
Approximately x200,000
Approximately 840 hours
(6 months)
Based on some Norman Tower castles I had visited while living in the UK, I built this model to be part of my online website story for The Kingdom of Andrastavia.
The castle is built over an area over two metres long by one and a half metres wide and features the main keep and the outer wall ring. Built beside a river, the model also has a tithe barn and a small group of shops with a fountain.
The main keep tower splits into two parts revealing the interior with a main hall, kitchen and several rooms.
Lego Dragon
Approximately x3000
Approximately 8 hours
I built this sculpture to be displayed in my entry foyer of my old house a few years ago.
The model was around 1 metre long and about 70cm high. The toes on each foot could move and be posed open or closed. The jaw was also hinged.
Stihl Chainsaw
and Line Trimmer
Number of Bricks (Chainsaw):
Approximately x30,000
Approximately 35 hours
Number of Bricks (Line Trimmer):
Approximately x12,000
Approximately 50 hours
I was recently commissioned to build a 1:1 scale model of a Stihl Chainsaw and Line Trimmer for an advertising agency in Melbourne Australia.
The models were used in a nation wide print ad campaign to promote Stihl genuine parts. The concept was to use a lego model of a chainsaw and a line trimmer to tie in with the slogan, "If its parts aren't genuine, it's not serious".
There was also a mini scale chainsaw built for shelf talkers that sat along the shelves at distributors.
Knife
Approximately x90
Approximately 1 hour
This simple knife is based on a 16th century single sided style.
It has a pommel with matching hand guard and measures around 30cm in length.
This knife was built for a display of 16th Century weaponry.
Medieval Sword
Approximately x1500
Approximately 6 hour
After seeing alot of Medieval weaponry on my travels around the UK when I lived there, I decided to build this sword based on a few swords I had seen.
The sword was around 1.2 meters long and included a hand guard and pomel.
I mounted my family crest over the sword and hung in on my wall as a decoration.
