Announcing the FIRST! Puzzle Prints Solo

Puzzle Prints in the Gallery

Wonderful venue, large, well lit

The show was up on Thursday and I visited both Friday and Saturday and I am delighted how good the puzzle prints and blocks look all dressed up.
The Fantastic Garden and the Great Cairn had to hang side by side due to weight and space limitations, but still look maaaarrrrrrrrrrveloussss, don't you think?

I am posting ALL the pictures on the 1000 Woodcuts Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/1000woodcuts

In Perfect Harmony

Now showing! March 13th to May 5th 2014
City of Las Vegas / Clark County Library District
Sahara Library Art Gallery
9600 West Sahara Ave
Las Vegas, Nevada 89117

Hours M - Th,10am - 8 pm  / F - Su, 10 am - 6 pm

The Great Cairn

City of the World blocks

Two information panels with all YOUR names!

The beginning of it all, Puzzle Print #1

This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 

The Puzzle blocks get polished up

Blocks get framed

The puzzle blocks are all a wee bit different sizes and framing them needed to be a custom job. After several trips to the home improvement store, I decided on a simple non-obtrusive and natural color molding to properly dress up the puzzle blocks.

A few hundred dollars worth of molding, two bottles of wood glue, a can of polyurethane and two weeks later, all the blocks are properly encased in their frames and ready for the show!

Simple pine molding with a generous "back-lip"
to hold the blocks together

A Great Cairn block gets ready for framing

Stole my husband's miter-saw for the job (I gave it back later)
a necessity for perfect mitered corners

A band clamp with reinforced corners surrounds the entire frame
quick-grip clamps hold the frame against the wood block

The first puzzle all framed up

And there they are! All 14 blocks ready for the show

This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.