{"id":4823,"date":"2025-01-02T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:16:13","slug":"the-fall-by-victor-zaretsky-dreamton-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2025\/01\/02\/the-fall-by-victor-zaretsky-dreamton-400\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall by Victor Zaretsky, Dreamton 400"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally did this lovely painting by Ukrainian artist Victor Zaretsky<\/a> (maybe Viktor with a “k”? not sure which version is preferred) (1925-1990), “The Fall”, from the Ukrainian laser cutter, Ihor Reshetnikov (Dreamton<\/a>, via Etsy). (Puzzle available at etsy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this painting discussed on Reddit, under the title “Autumn Wind” — you can see the wind in the piece, with the person’s hair or scarf blowing back, and the scudding, swirling clouds in the sky. The art is lovely — I really liked the trees, the path, and the lone figure walking, probably a woman, maybe carrying a baby? Sadly I couldn’t get a great picture of the front finished puzzle; the lighting and the google phone made it all somewhat washed out and orange-y. The almost-finished photo gives truer colors, although as usual, the camera picks up a lot of distinctive detail that is not really as obvious to my human eyes on the puzzle itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ihor’s whimsy designs are also really charming — his whimsies are clever, and I like the sort of formalistic, circular placement of the whimsies in the grid of regular puzzle pieces — contrasting with a sort of random placement as many laser cutters do. The wood was not the greatest quality, but frankly I’m amazed he’s able to do this work at all. I also enjoyed the geometric cut style — it’s not just straight edges, but includes lots of little variations in the pieces, slight angles or curves, so false fits are not a problem even when it’s hard to distinguish visual differences in darker sections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the back of the poster, Ihor also includes a really helpful grid of the piece layout and of the whimsies. I didn’t use it, but if you’re really stuck, that would be helpful! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First puzzle of the new year. (-: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finally did this lovely painting by Ukrainian artist Victor Zaretsky (maybe Viktor with a “k”? not sure which version is preferred) (1925-1990), “The Fall”, from the Ukrainian laser cutter, Ihor Reshetnikov (Dreamton, via Etsy). (Puzzle available at etsy.) I found this painting discussed on Reddit, under the title “Autumn Wind” — you can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,612],"tags":[],"artists":[653],"puzzling":[654,371],"makers":[382],"features":[630,245,480,487,106,8],"subjects":[259],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-lasercut","artists-viktor-zaretsky","puzzling-654","puzzling-lq","makers-dreamton-puzzles","features-301-499-pieces","features-geometric-cut","features-laser-cut","features-multi-part-whimsies","features-whimsies","features-wooden","subjects-landscape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250102_181835759-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}