{"id":1660,"date":"2019-02-12T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:54:33","slug":"jigsaw-puzzles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jigsaw-puzzles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigsaw Puzzles – Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During the holiday season over the last three years, I have begun my own little tradition of putting together a work of great art jigsaw puzzle.\u00a0 The first was Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.\u00a0 I did it with my daughter and her then-boyfriend and I was going to frame it when we finished and give it to him…then I lost a piece in transit!\u00a0 That was a bummer, but the puzzle was loads of fun to do.\u00a0 I had these insights (for me) during the puzzle construction process that I had all over again last year when I did Van Gogh’s Cafe in Arles.\u00a0 (Seen here.)\u00a0<\/strong> And again this year while I’m working on a super hard painting by Renoir.\u00a0 Like,<\/p>\n

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  1. I am so grateful for my sense of sight.\u00a0 Doing a puzzle of a great master of art gets me into the fine details of what these guys were doing.\u00a0 What looks on first glance like a blazing yellow awning, upon the closer examination a jigsaw puzzle requires, displays flashes of red or different shades of yellow and white.\u00a0 \u00a0It is a real treat for the eyes.<\/li>\n
  2. There are times when I really,\u00a0really<\/em> want a piece to fit.\u00a0 As hard as I will it, there’s just no fit.\u00a0 And I want to jam the piece in, but know that’s silly because – it doesn’t fit.\u00a0 Move on.\u00a0 Find the piece that fits. You’re not going to force your desired outcome.<\/li>\n
  3. The puzzle and I are in a\u00a0mano a mano<\/em> competition.\u00a0 I am trying to fit the pieces together and the puzzle frustrates my efforts.\u00a0 I put a piece where I know it will fit – and it doesn’t.\u00a0 “You won that one, puzzle.”\u00a0 Then I find the piece that fits, and popping it in place is just so satisfying.\u00a0 “Gotcha!”\u00a0 \u00a0In the beginning, the puzzle has its greatest advantage.\u00a0 No piece is fit together.\u00a0 I’ve got to figure out where each of these different colored and shaped pieces go.\u00a0 The process is methodical and slow.\u00a0 The puzzle\u00a0laughs\u00a0<\/em> at me.\u00a0 But ever so slowly, the pieces fall into place and the shapes make the puzzle a little easier – until, finally, I pop in the last piece.\u00a0 “Good game, puzzle.”\u00a0 It feels like a competition.\u00a0 A friendly competition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I am now done for the holidays.\u00a0 My Renoir painting is only about 10% finished.\u00a0 I have slid it onto a board and put it under my bed….until next Thanksgiving.\u00a0 And then it’s you and me, puzzle.\u00a0 Just you and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During the holiday season over the last three years, I have begun my own little tradition of putting together a work of great art jigsaw puzzle.\u00a0 The first was Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.\u00a0 I did it with my daughter and her then-boyfriend and I was going to frame it when we finished and give it to Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,1],"tags":[28,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}