So, I haven’t got much further with this. I finished the edges, and I’ve sorted the remaining pieces according to shape, but there are more than 500 of the red pieces…
Also, I managed to lose a piece. There’s no way there’s a black piece with some green still on the table, and I did an extensive search, including an unpleasant autopsy of a dustbag from my vacuum. That piece is gone for good.
I’m back in Dortmund for the weekend and back to this interesting puzzle. The easy part is now done, and there is no way I’ll be able to finish it before I leave again on Monday.
Vintage travel ads always make great puzzles, and this was very nice.
I started one more puzzle in Dortmund, where it will be waiting for my return. Today I’m heading back north with my car, and in a few days I should be back in Helsinki. Again, I’ve set it up so that there’s a post with an old puzzle photo every day.
This is an interesting image, but the red part is going to be tough. The title is given in French only on the box, but Epanouissement coloré should mean Colourful Blossoming (thank you, Google). It’s a 1500-piece Grafika.
On the box, the artists are given as Anne Poiré & Patrick Guallino, but the signature on the image makes it look like one person.
Hygieia by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, a painting from 1900. The quality was good, as it usually is with Grafika, but it was still pretty difficult.
It was really only the red and gold dress that was hard. Up until this point, I had no problems, but then all the pieces looked the same. At one point I thought it would be have been easier to have an area of the same colour rather than all this confusing red and gold, but I did learn to pick out some of the pieces. I found most of the snake-pieces, and I also managed to pick out most of the pieces with the small round / heart-shaped dots. Slow, but not unpleasant.
This was great, a wonderful, colourful image. I think this was my first Grafika puzzle, and the quality was really good. The finish is glossy.
Hygieia was a Greek goddess, daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. This version has little to do with Greek mythology, it’s a painting by 19th Century Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. I like his paintings, and sometimes I can’t help myself even though I know they make difficult puzzles. This is my favourite, and I also have a mug with the same image.
As a puzzle, it is quite difficult, but not too bad. I did sort the greenish area on the left according to shape, but it was fairly fast and enjoyable to complete, mainly because the quality is excellent. I expect it will become more difficult from now on.
There were some pieces stuck together again, this, unfortunately, happens with Grafika quite a lot, but it wasn’t too bad this time. I didn’t pull them apart, I don’t mind a bit of help with this 🙂
Two weeks ago I mentioned on the blog that the ice hockey world championship was about to start. Well, against all odds, Finland won! None of the big Finnish NHL stars wanted in, and 18 of 25 players were first-timers. Still, they managed to beat Sweden (21 NHL players), Russia (title favourites) and finally Canada in the final. In the end, hard work and team play beat star-studded opponents. Amazing!
Also, I managed to finish my Egyptian collage. The section below on the right, Tutankhamun in the middle and the two sections above and below him turned out to be pretty easy. For the remaining five I could sort the pieces into two piles, one for the two images with grey stone and one for the three remaining images with yellowish stone. It wasn’t all that easy, but still enjoyable from start to finish!
I started on a 2000-piece Egyptian collage by Grafika.
The pieces for these two sections were pretty easy to pull, but it’s going to get a lot harder from now on.
Grafika has a huge, 48 000 piece puzzle with images from around the world. I’m not up for that, but the images are also available as 1000, 1500 and 2000 piece puzzles. This is the image for Japan.
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