re: #130 FemNaziBitch

My family does puzzles over the holidays. Mostly as a way to avoid forced family fun and because all other space in the house is taken over by forced family fun.

So, we started a 2000 piece puzzle of Starry Night.

The box and the actual puzzle were printed with different color ways. Which, for Starry Night, isn’t unusual —as I understand it, no reproduction ever matches the original or any other reproduction in color.

You’ll notice it’s February and I (having been abandoned by all other puzzle manic family members) and still working to complete it.

Alone I can usually get thru a 1000 piece puzzle in a day or two. THIS ONE IS A PITA.

I feel stuck, like I can’t proceed to any other project until it is finished.

I’m actually learning a lot about the painting in the process —-his brush stroke technique —etc.

Don’t get so frustrated to the point you cut off an ear. /

A great painting by the way. It would make a hell of a puzzle. The fact that many of the colors are used throughout and the strokes go round and round the stars and moon would add to it.

And I do believe much of his work was done with palette knifes instead of a brush. That is why the paint it so thick and each swipe has the raised edges. It becomes dimensional and textural.