Deb Stoner creates intricate still lifes using a flatbed scanner as her camera, capturing even the smallest details in the plants and bugs she collects. Though her artwork often begins by growing the greenery she features,Siris Lilactakes its subjects and name from the garden of friend and fellow artist, Siri Schillios. The elaborate photograph, reprinted on this 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, shows off Stoners skill at blending the natural and digital.
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Darlene Kuligs signature style of semiabstract spirited landscapes are utterly joyful. In Down by the Fishing Pond, Kulig has captured her memory of a beautiful summer weekend spent walking through elegant gardens near tranquil water. You can practically hear the cattails brush against each other and distant insects hum, as rows of fishing punts gently rock in the pond. This 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle invites you to rest and reflect on a calm day, as effervescent bubbles drift through the air. |
Brightly hued and spotted with champagne bubbles that effervesce from the earth, Darlene Kuligs signature artworks are utterly joyful. She refers to her style as semi-abstracted spirited landscape. Kulig, who lives in Toronto, takes hundreds of photographs when she travels, and then uses them as a basis for authentic details in her work. Her stylized art builds on twenty years experience as a graphic designer, and in each new painting she explores light, rhythm, and personal connection. Flower Field in the Countryside (featured on this puzzle) recalls a scene and sense of place captured during the artists trip to Vienna. |
When we awaken to each new day, whether we are aware of it or not, we are thrust into a world of infinite proportions and never-ending revelations. We have come from the secret work of our dreams, and with eyes open we encounter Earth and discover the ancient presence of a landscape alive with extraordinary beauty, writes artist Robert Bissell in his book Spirit (Pomegranate, 2019). Bissells bearscontemplative and curiousseem to lead lives as complex and thought-filled as those led by humans. His paintings invite a sense of wonder and appreciation for our precarious connection with the natural world.
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Albert Bierstadt (American, b. Germany, 1830–1902) |
Charley Harpermaster of the midcentury menageriehas collected an eclectic ensemble with Beguiled by the Wild. Once published as a black-line drawing in his 1994 book of the same name, this image has been freshly colored in true Harper stylefrom the behemoth rhinoceros to the littlest leaf. True to form, though certainly not to scale, the flora and fauna here can be found throughout decades of Harpers art. You might recognize his iconic cardinal, but can you place others? |
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Claude Monet (French, 18401926) was one of a daring group of French painters who turned away from academic tradition and developed a fresh, spontaneous style devoted to the pursuit of light and its fleeting effects on sky, water, and land. Painted in 1874, the year of the groups first exhibition in Paris, Monets Sailboats on the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers reflects the emergence of the artists mature style. His agile brushwork was superbly suited to the evanescent interplay of sunlight and water. The groupwhose Impressionists moniker was inspired by critical attention directed at another of Monets paintings, Impressionism: Sunrisedeftly captured scenes of everyday life in flickering brushstrokes, bold colors, and soft atmospheric effects. Water and the reflections of landscapes would become an obsession for Monet, and ouard Manet, one of his contemporaries, would speak admiringly of him as the Raphael of water. |
Bright and spotted with champagne bubbles that effervesce from the earth, Darlene Kuligs artworks are utterly joyful. Kulig refers to her style as semiabstracted spirited landscape. Her stylized art builds on her experience as a graphic designer, and in each new painting she explores light, rhythm, color, and the life force of her subjects. The image of St Nicholas Abbey in this 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle was inspired by her travels in Barbados. |
Eric Werts still lifes nearly vibrate with saturated color and decadent detail that somehow exceeds the limitations of realism. InMola Salsa, a stonemolcajeteseems to exalt its earthly contents to the level of ambrosiathe food of the godsaccompanied by a golden tequila offering. Not surprisingly, Wert began his career as a scientific illustrator. His current approach is, he says, more poetic than scientific. |
Charley Harpers whimsical paintings have delighted art and animal lovers for more than sixty years. Harper (19222007) developed his unique style while a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League in New York City. His distinctive use of simple geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colorsa style he defined as minimal realismsuccinctly captured the essence of each creature he portrayed. |