Center of Learning

The winners of Classic-Castle.com's Colossal Castle Contest have been revealed.  The winner for the category "Center of Learning" was Thomas Arrowford with "The Great Library of Salamackia".  It boasts a mosaic map of the LCC world of Roawia on the floor.




Congrats on the win!

A Host of Ye Olde Tapestries

tapestry [tap-uh-stree] - n. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.

The first is of a unicorn by Flickr user, jackiebritton. My favorite parts of this one include the shading of the back legs and the slope parts used to insert the unicorn horn.

Here's a mosaic found in Legoland, Windsor taken by Flickr user, Derringdos. I like the use of only five colors.



Majita Grguric made this Black Falcon mosaic, but unlike the tapestries here, this one is studs up, opposed to SNOT. The shading in the grey is just superb, though.


NewRight made this smaller tapestry of a castle. This one is probably my favorite out of the lot as the mist and clouds are really a great touch, as well as the color of the trees and the slopes at the top of the castle.


Flickr user, Daniel Z "DNL", created a hunting scene. This one is interesting by its use of multiple perspectives (with the tower and people). Once again, you can notice the little shading of the side of the tower and further away legs of the horse that make the mosaic great, as well as that he used both sideways and right side up SNOT techniques. It is a bit odd that the tower's top is not included inside the tapestry, though.

Bluesecrets made both of these tapestries, of which the one on the bottom won the category of best tapestry in the 2008 Colossal Castle Contest VI on Classic-Castle. The first is a recreation of her avatar, which is very smll, but effective. The second is of a knight. The scattering of colors the is really great, and the clouds are really spectacular too.

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Lo! A Lovely Library!

Benjamin Jakobsen (Bentoft) made this mosaic-filled library for the Colossal Castle Contest at Classic-Castle.com.

It includes these gold-tinged stained-glass windows: 

I wonder if one of those books is a LEGO book?  ;-)

Castle-y Goodness

Check out the mosaics all over this gorgeous room by Etzel87.  I especially love that center square. 

Sanctuary Overview, by Etzel87

Another gorgeous interior is this Room at Toberg by Benjamin Jakobson (bentoft):

Room at Toberg, by Benjamin Jakobson

The Room at Toberg was an entry for the Colossal Castle Contest at Classic-Castle.com.  You can find the categories and rules here. 

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"

So over at Classic-Castle, moderator Bluesecrets created a contest in which contestants were to show how they believed dragons were created. Now the winners have already been announced here, but user rogue27 (also a moderator of C-C) included a very small, yet well done mosaic in his entry.

His description reads: 

"The exchange student always blew off his sculpture assignments so he could dream up new monsters. Nobody expected that his creations would find their way into legends."

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The mosaic is only about 6 studs long and 3 and a third studs high, yet conveys the image nicely. I'm going to have to try and incorporate small mosaics like these into tapestries, graffiti, or something else into my creations and I invite you to do the same!

You can check out the his Brickshelf gallery here, and the gallery for the entry here.

Guess the quote in the post title above in the comments below! (No google seraches! XD ) I'll give you hint. It will be released as a motion picture in a few months. ;-)

UPDATE: The winner of our not-so-official contest is Martin! The quote for the headline of the post has been modified now. Thanks for guessing!

Until then, bye!