I don’t normally do portrait orientation puzzles – they don’t fit well on the puzzle table – but made an exception for this as I’ve always loved this painting (along with Boston in Everyday Twilight, which they also have as a puzzle). I did not know, but this is a detail from the painting, shown … Read more
Not actually sure where I picked this up – potentially from Puzzle Warehouse or Amazon. Great image by David MacLean – Grand Canal Venice – lots of fun to do. Photographic detail, though obviously not a photograph. Lots of great texture in the brick, in the water, and in the sky – with enough barber … Read more
I love the puzzles Pomegranate puts out, including this 10000 piece one published with the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jacob Lawrence’s The Wedding, painted in 1948. Really interesting to do this as a puzzle to get a rich sense of the color and the background.
Another RoseArt puzzle, Mark Frost Home Country – Warming House Went on Americana kick for a bit with puzzles. Interesting texture in the trees / branches and some “gimme” spots with type. Check out Mark Frost American Art for more about the artist.
Via Pomegranate, Red House & Yellow Sleigh, 1000 piece puzzle. Harris was one of the founders of the Group of Seven, a set of Canadian landscape painters. He’s also well known for a number of paintings of the north shore of Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains. Can’t seem to find where the original of … Read more
Via RoseArt, Home Country – Cape Ann 1000 piece puzzle. “Cape Ann” by Anthony Kleem is the source material here. You can see many of the inspirations on the Gloucester HarborWalk: The Paint Factory, for example. Love the colors on this one, especially the fall trees in the foreground and on the hills in the … Read more
VIa Pomegranate, Vincent Van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1000 piece puzzle. The painting, which is dated 1890 (in the last year of Van Gogh’s life), can be seen in person at the Detroit Institute of Arts. There’s a short video about the painting from the DIA facebook page: https://fb.watch/wBhTrSFfie Van Gogh’s ‘Bank … Read more
Via RoseArt / Kodak Premium, Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam – 1000 piece puzzle. I tend to alternate between the Pomegranate style art puzzles, with more muted colors and often more challenging patters, with these Kodak Premium style very colorful and detailed puzzles. There’s more fine detail you can use to place pieces, but still some … Read more
Via Pomegranate, a 1000 piece puzzle of Van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures. The cropped image above includes my puzzle board to show the “bonus” pieces included – took me a while to figure out in the beginning why I had more pieces than I could fit, until I was able to recognize one was … Read more
Via Eurographics – Eilean Donan Castle Scotland 1000 piece puzzle. Photo here doesn’t really do the puzzle justice – looks more vibrant / colorful in real life. Eilean Donan Castle is a 13th century castle in the Highlands, in Dornie on the way to Isle of Skye. I’ve not had a chance to visit but … Read more