For each issue of BrickJournal Magazine, the BrickNerd team creates instructions for a LEGO mini-model to go with the theme of the cover story. For their recent issue all about crafts, we decided to create some art supplies including some paint, scissors and a canvas.

Getting Crafty

It’s time to get crafty! For the art theme, we designed three mini-builds of art supplies you’d find at a craft shop including scissors, a paintbrush and some paint, and an easel and canvas.

The scissors feature back-to-back mudguards for the shape of the handles using a fun SNOT technique made possible with the new 1x1x2/3 brick with a hole in it. They also pivot like a real pair, though we don’t recommend using them to cut any paper.

For the paint supplies, you can customize your paint colors and canvas with whatever you want using new 3x3 circle tiles. Also, see if you can find the well-placed banana used in the paintbrush.

Lastly, the easel and canvas can be used for many different things. Need a MOC cardholder at a LEGO convention? Use the mini easel! Want to create your own 8x8 masterpiece? Go for it! Oh, and those older red butterflies can be substituted with the newer yellow ones too (80674).

Here are the step-by-step instructions you can scroll through to build all the art supplies.

Painting With Color

This was a fun collection to design. We hope you enjoy building them just as much as you like to get artistic with the brick!

You can download a pdf of the instructions and full part list that BrickJournal published here. You can also purchase a copy of the entire current issue here. You’ll see some familiar MOCs from BrickNerd contributor Andreas Lenander, a feature about Jack England, and the mosaic musings of Deep Shen.

Will you build these LEGO art supplies? Let us know in the comments below!

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