Photo: Ottawa Nature Museum, Ikebana, Red and Green, May 29, 2009
Beading: Beige-brown glass pendant green bead necklace
Puzzle: Twilight in the Park by Rod Chase
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 48.26cm x 35.56cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox
Artist: Rod Chase, Photorealist
Painting: Twilight in Central Park
Notes: Rod Chase is known to his collectors for producing photo-realism at its finest. The talented artist says, “Being a photorealist, I am dependent on finding accurate reference material for each painting.” Chase works with acrylics on canvas, spending hundreds of hours on each painting with the ultimate goal of …
Puzzle: The Concert Room, by John O’Brien
Size: 500 pieces
Producer: Parlor Puzzles, Soft-touch velvet backing
Artist: John O’Brien – John’s artwork conveys a series of mystery and romance seldom found in contemporary art. With exquisite craftsmanship, poetic ideals, and a modern awareness, he created a unique style, which has come to be known as “contemporary romantic realism”. His passion for France, Italy and Ireland can be seen in the romantic settings of elegant interiors, European street scenes, and neighborhood cafes and pubs. …
Puzzle: Daughter of the Deep, by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Rose Art, Jewel Scapes series
Artist: Josephine Wall is an English born artist who currently resides in the seaside community of Dorset, England. She specializes in mystical, surreal-like, fantasy paintings. [Bio on Josephine Wall site]
Notes: Mortals hold seashells to their ears to hear the sounds of the seas and imagine life in the deep waters below. Perhaps a mermaid would look into …
Puzzle: Aristide’s Garden
Size: 500 pieces
Notes: Aristides (530 BC – 468 BC) was an Athenian statesman, nicknamed “the Just”. Herodotus is practically our only trustworthy authority. Aristides is praised by Socrates, in Plato’s dialogue Gorgias 526a-b, as an exceptional instance of good leadership. [Wiki]
It is unknown to which gardens this puzzle is referring. A search reveals Aristide/Aristides/Aristidis gardens present in Greece, the States, and the United Kingdom. I also do not have a record of the …
Puzzle: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.5cm
Producer: Impressions, Sure-Lox
Notes: Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 412 ha of public grounds. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20% larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared. It is over 5 km long east to west, and about half a mile north to south. With 13 million …
Puzzle: Nostalgic Still Life
Size: 1000 pieces
Producer: Warren, RoseArt, Prestige Puzzle series
Notes: A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements …
Puzzle: Tranquility
Size: 1000 pieces, 1 missing
Dimensions: 68cm x 48.1cm
Producer: Mega Brands, Click series
Notes: Tranquility is the quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; serenity. The word tranquility appears in numerous texts ranging from the religious writings of Buddhism, where the term passaddhi refers to tranquillity of the body, thoughts and consciousness on the path to enlightenment, to an assortment of policy and planning guidance documents, where interpretation of the word is …
Puzzle: Van Gogh – “Starry Night” photomosaic
Size: 1000 pieces
Producer: Buffalo Games, Robert Silvers
Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 – 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. [Wiki]
Painting: photo. “The Starry Night” depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. The center part shows the village …
Beading: Glass pendant, blue, green, black bead necklace
Puzzle: Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.5cm
Producer: Sure-Lox, Impressions series
Location: site
Notes: Notre-Dame Basilica (French: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d’Armes square.
The church’s Gothic Revival architecture is among …
Puzzle: The Old Town, Cracow, Poland
Size: 1000 pieces
Notes: Kraków Old Town is the historic central district of Kraków, Poland. It is one of the most famous old districts in Poland today and was the center of Poland’s political life until King Sigismund III Vasa relocated his court to Warsaw in 1596. Medieval Kraków was surrounded by a 3 km defensive wall complete with 46 towers and seven main entrances leading through them. The fortifications around the Old Town were erected over …
Beading: Wine charms, Music
Puzzle: Pabellon Mudejar, Sevilla, Spain
Size: 750 pieces
Dimensions: 59.37cm x 39.4cm
Producer: Sure-Lox, Impressions series
Location: site
Notes: The Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla is a museum in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, located in the María Luisa Park, across the Plaza de América from the Provincial Archeological Museum. The museum occupies the Mudéjar Pavilion (Pabellón Mudéjar) designed by Aníbal González and built in 1914. The exterior is ceramic over brick, and has three doors with …
Beading: Wine charms, Words, Wind
Book: Bilingual By Choice: Raising Kids in Two (or More!) Languages, by Virginie Raguenaud
Title: Bilingual By Choice: Raising Kids in Two (or More!) Languages
Author: Virginie Raguenaud
Source: Veddma library
ISBN: 978-1857885262
Available online
Notes: The first eight chapters (out of ten) of this book are devoted primarily to the discussion of why it is beneficial to be bilingual, why it is important to retain your heritage language and teach it to your children, and why being bilingual is not unpatriotic. The author’s target audience is clearly …
Beading: Wine charms, Words, Warp
Beading: Wine charms, Medical
Puzzle: Merlin’s Oak by Myles Pinkney
Size: 500+ pieces
Producer: New Fangled Angles series
Artist: Myles Pinkney is an outstanding fantasy artist. Magic flows through each one if his illustrations, bringing to life a fantasy realm outside that of the architecture of traditional mythology. He also deals with Arthurian legend and religious subject-matter. Works such as “Christmas Presence” and “Merlin’s Oak” demonstrate Pinkney’s ability to articulate his artistic vision in the painstaking detail of his …