LEGO Wild Animal Artist: 'I Love Creating Art'
DENVER (CBS4)- This week large sculptures of LEGO animals will join the wild animals that live at the Denver Zoo. The artist behind the project said he just loves to create art with LEGOs.
The nearly three dozen LEGO brick sculptures are part of the "Nature Connects, Art With LEGO Bricks" exhibit at the zoo sponsored by The Goddard Schools. Some were made specifically for the Denver Zoo.
"I love creating art with LEGO Bricks because I think it's one of the most fun ways to create any kind of art. It gets kids inspired, they can look at it and imagine themselves creating something. Hopefully go home, make something great themselves. It's a lot less serious, like me," said LEGO Brick artist Sean Kenney.
The exhibit opens to the public on Friday and continues through Nov. 1 and features life-size and even larger than life animal and plant sculptures scattered throughout the park.
Some of the sculptures include works of art representing species from North America and abroad like a 400-pound bumblebee and a hummingbird with an eight-foot wing span. There is also a lion, a snow leopard and polar bears.