13200 Annunciation: Progress #11, 110 hours.
Day 23. 110 hours total.
Yesterday was the day when it felt like I broke through. The dark green areas which are quite scattered with the upper trees, the grass/flowers area with its very difficult twists and turns, and Gabriel's shadow, may well be the hardest portion of this puzzle (though I'm not excited about that blue dress). I have gone from over 2000 dark pieces to perhaps 1300 left. That feels a lot more manageable. It took about 8.25 hours to complete the rest of the green; the remainder I spent building the left wall.
The wall, which I thought would be really difficult, is turning out to be not bad at all. I didn't even need to arrange the pieces into shape-formation on pieces of cardboard, but can build the puzzle my normal way. The left side has more green in its brown, the right side more reddish. There's also a very subtle grain to the area that runs horizontally. Interestingly, I found the blades of grass to be much more tricky than solid color areas.
I'm now really tuned in to the subtle shades of these dark colors in a way that I wasn't a few days ago. I expect the final run will be stone work, red dress, blue dress.
13200 Annunciation: Progress #11, 110 hours.
Day 23. 110 hours total.
Yesterday was the day when it felt like I broke through. The dark green areas which are quite scattered with the upper trees, the grass/flowers area with its very difficult twists and turns, and Gabriel's shadow, may well be the hardest portion of this puzzle (though I'm not excited about that blue dress). I have gone from over 2000 dark pieces to perhaps 1300 left. That feels a lot more manageable. It took about 8.25 hours to complete the rest of the green; the remainder I spent building the left wall.
The wall, which I thought would be really difficult, is turning out to be not bad at all. I didn't even need to arrange the pieces into shape-formation on pieces of cardboard, but can build the puzzle my normal way. The left side has more green in its brown, the right side more reddish. There's also a very subtle grain to the area that runs horizontally. Interestingly, I found the blades of grass to be much more tricky than solid color areas.
I'm now really tuned in to the subtle shades of these dark colors in a way that I wasn't a few days ago. I expect the final run will be stone work, red dress, blue dress.