Category: wooden
Egon Schiele “Four Trees”
Beautiful and small. Also, surprisingly hard, even with only 79 pieces, because the pieces were (almost) all rectangular slabs. Artifact Puzzles: “This is a richly-colored 79 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle of the painting Four Trees by artist Egon Schiele. This is different than most of our puzzles in that it is a connector-less puzzle with its own […]
Utagawa Kuniyoshi “Cats”
4/8 fri – Artifact – Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) “Cats”, 258 pieces – challenging; lots of little black & white spotted cats, on a blue background, with many little red tags (name tags or activities?) … so hard – Ash & me & various PCAs (Abbey, Felicia) & nurses Artifact Puzzles – “This 258 piece wooden […]
Kandinsky “Squares with Concentric Circles”
I honestly don’t remember when we did this one, but Ash and I did it together – spring 2022? winter 2022/2023? Wassily Kandinsky, “Squares with Concentric Circles”, 1913. Public domain! Wikimedia Commons download. Apparently this work is held in a the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich. Artifact Puzzles: “This color-tastic 191 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle has […]
Paul Klee “Fish Magic”
All the little details of the Klee art were so nice. Lots of beautiful fish …. Paul Klee, “Fish Magic”, 1925 – in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Puzzle Design: Maria Berg Artifact Puzzles: “This is a 254 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle of one of Paul Klee’s most famous images: Fish Magic. […]
Karen Kunc “Verse from Macrocosmica”
Karen Kunc, “Verse from Macrocosmica”. Artifact Puzzles, 120-pieces. April 22, 2020 Took apart “Mars” and started an Artifacts puzzle, Karen Kunc, “Verse from Macrocosmica”. Easy to solve, completed quickly in a few hours (with AQ doing a lot) but very beautiful and aesthetically satisfying. And surprising! with straight-edged pieces in the middle … and two […]
Mars by Erin Darling
This one was fun and somewhat challenging because of the coloring. But, it was overall fairly small and quickly doable. The roundness and colors make me think of some artfully burned wood-fired pizza with a large pepperoni … Available at Bewilderness: This puzzle is the first in a brand new line of planet puzzle collaborations […]
Eric Joyner “Great Robot Migration”
Artifact Puzzles: “This is a wooden jigsaw puzzle of Eric Joyner’s Great Robot Migration. The design by Matt Lyon has 480 unique, interlocking pieces with dozens of robotic-themed whimsies traveling around (plus a few non-robots as well). We consider this one really hard. While there is a straight-edged border, many inner pieces have straight edges too […]
Hokusai Dragon
My first wooden puzzle! The Hokusai Dragon — 81-piece, Artifacts puzzle. https://www.artifactpuzzles.com/products/hokusai-dragonStarted and completed it on April 5, 2020. Challenging in that all pieces fit together interchangeably, so had to focus a lot on the image. Artifact Puzzles: “This 81 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle is challenging because the puzzle is cut so that any two […]
