Claude Monet 1000 Piece Puzzle The Japanese Footbridge

I love Monet so the finished project was gorgeous. The puzzle was intermediate to hard as far as puzzles go. I found it slightly challenging, particularly since I have 2 cats and a parrot who like to commandeer puzzle pieces. I had a lot of fun putting this puzzle together because it wasn't super easy.

We have numerous Pomegranate ArtPiece puzzles. My daughter and I loved our first one and added many to our collection. This puzzle is of very high quality, beautiful printing and pieces are thick and durable. Can definitely recommend the quality of all the Pomegranate ArtPiece puzzles. On the other hand, this particular puzzle is very challenging, more so than all the others in our collection. We had been actively working on it for a couple of weeks, but reached a point where we had almost 1/2 of the puzzle completed but then got frustrated and took a break. So there it sat all splayed out on our dining room table for more weeks to come. The difficulty lies in the pink/white flowers. Like most painting puzzles, the colors blend together or change quickly so it's hard to discern the pieces when they all look alike. We're back to it again and hope to finish it in the next few weeks. And although we always take apart our puzzles (after admiring our handy work for a few days), this one we're contemplating framing because it took us so long to assemble.

This puzzle did not disappoint. I’m a fan of Monet and puzzles, so this seemed a great idea. It is a very difficult puzzle, because of the brushstroke and not a lot of color /texture variations. This is not a puzzle that you will finish in one day. It’s fairly well constructed. Only a few pieces were stuck together or in need of a little love.

I got this for my mom, who loves Monet and puzzles. The one thing that we noticed as we've been working it together is that the pieces are so tiny and the brush strokes are so well...impressionistic, that it's CRAZY hard. Every piece looks like a pile of other pieces. It's a nice challenge for the puzzle elite, but a little too steeped in minutiae for us casual puzzlers. The pieces are also a little roughly cut and sometimes have a bit of damage when they were separated, so when you're relying on fit to make sure a piece that looks like 25 other pieces is the right one, it can be difficult to tell if the fit is truly correct.

Very difficult puzzle, took longer than usual because the color palate was so similar for all the pieces. After all the time I invested, I was short one piece!

Every one of the 1,000 pieces was there. I worked on it for a couple of months, a few minutes a day, my son helped me a LOT! Anyways, we finished, felt REALLY good about the success, then I pasted it together, placed on black foamboard, and display on a shelf in the bedroom. Love it! I'll never say, "wish I hadn't done that puzzle." Nope. Always proud that I did.

Really hard and challenging to assemble but that was what I liked.

One of the hardest puzzles I’ve ever done. You gotta be determined.