Peace Puzzle LIVES!

114 Artists so far!

Today I received the Congratulations! email from Kickstarter.com letting me know that the Peace Puzzle is funded. I was elated! Delighted! Dancing all day long!

AND there is still time to sneak in so if you have been on the fence...

The Peace Puzzle: Current project open for enrollment! 

http://1000woodcuts.blogspot.com/p/peace-puzzle.html

How to sign up:

Go to: http://tinyurl.com/peacepuzzle

Click on Back this Project green button

Choose a reward and check out

What exactly does this mean? Reaching the funding goal means that the project has enough funds now to become a reality. I can proceed with my machiavellian scheme to lure artists into this grand adventure, ha ha ha! First order of business is to find a supplier for wood, more on this on next post.

As promised, pieces of past puzzles

For the artists that are pondering upon our theme: peace, and wondering what type of image they will be creating, here are some examples of puzzle pieces past (say that 5 times fast). The following six pieces are from the Fantastic Garden, our last puzzle. Each piece is about 5 to 6 inches or 12 to 16 centimeters in diameter.
As each block came in, I placed it in my "real" garden in an appropriate setting to record each delicious image. The published book Growing the Fantastic Garden 2012, contained each artist's image with a written blurb they send in as they return the blocks. The last book was in color!

Diane Cutter, among the purple sage

Randy Feil, between two pines

Sharron Huffman, floating on the pool (Photoshop!)

Susan McLeod, among the cut firewood

Achim Nicklis, in the pommegranate tree

Renata Salgado, perched atop a Palo Verde tree

I'm off to research wood suppliers! We need a lot of wood...


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Octopus garden on the ceiling!?

What does nature printing have to do with our Fantastic Garden?

I met master octopus printer Sharron Huffman through the Nature Printing Society, an energetic fish-and-leaf loving bunch. These people will literally grab anything off the floor, from the ocean, riverbeds and forests, then ink and print it!
The creations are absolutely marvelous, check them out here:
Nature Printing Society

Sharron Huffman is the resident master octopus-printer and she delights students in the yearly workshop by bringing seemingly larger and larger octopi to be ink and printed (and, for what I hear, sometimes eaten afterwards!). Yum.
Find her amazing work here:
Herring Cove Originals http://www.sharronhuffman.com

Anyhow, she bravely dove into the world of woodcuts and contributed an octopus to our Fantastic Garden.

"I put my garden on the slanted ceiling in my studio also. Thanks to sweet Harry who got way up on the stepladder while I prayed for his safety! Here's Harry - 2 attached jpg's - doing the installation, and another photo for how it looks in context. I was getting ready for an open house/studio, and it was so neat how it worked out: my Puzzle Print Octopus came to rest very near my Octopus Wall of Fame. :-)

Many thanks again for such a fun project."

Keep them coming! This is fun...

Framing the puzzle prints

Framing dilemmas

So how does an artist frame the monumental puzzle prints?
I have been framing the puzzle prints for our upcoming show at the Sahara West Library Art Gallery from March 13th to May 4th 2014 entitled In Perfect Harmony, courtesy of the Las Vegas/Clark County Library District. And I mean ALL the puzzle prints and ALL the puzzle blocks! Twenty eight delicious pieces in all, representing over 400 artists from all over the world. Amazing.

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, framing dilemmas. First decision was to frame each panel separately in order to avoid having to pay dearly for huge unwieldy frames and huge unwieldy foam-board pieces and acrylic for backing and glazing.
Second decision was how to frame them. After exploring several possibilities such as borderless framing clips, wire corners (similar but home-made) and canvas frames. I purchased samples of each and found them not quite appropriate so I decided on simple line standard metal frames.
However I did not want a "border" interfering with the visual of the overall designs, so I explored the offerings in the Nielsen frames line and found a simple minimal metal frame in black, white, silver and German silver tones.
Again, I purchased one of each and placed the frames against the prints. The slightly off-white paper blended perfectly with the warm tones of the German silver frame!

Print on acid-free black foamboard backing
Nielsen German Silver frame ready to be assembled

Since there is no mat, I used a variation of the standard T-hinge
with the hinge folding over the backing board

Back of the board with linen-tape hinge being folded and adhered

Fast forward about 5 days here are all the prints all dressed up and ready for their outing. Next I tackle the blocks!

The very first puzzle print

14 prints ready to party!

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.

What did you do with YOUR garden?

Sit Back and Enjoy!

Our own Sonia Jensen sent these pictures of the Fantastic Garden.
"I have a low slant ceiling in my studio.  Yesterday I pinned the Fantastic Garden prints side by side on the ceiling.  It is wonderful to glance up and remember the whole project."

 

Awesome!

 

What did you do with your puzzle?

This only happens to We

We as in Me!!!

Seeeee...the "W" is an upside down "M"...just like my book apparently was assembled with an upside down cover!!!

Oh lordie, como sufrimos las madres solteras...
 I checked the first few books, maybe two or three of them and they looked fine so I really don't know how many of you received the unique one-of-a-kind anomalies (good way to look at it, no?).

I have to laugh. I have contacted the printer (CreateSpace) and am guessing they probably won't do anything for me since I will not ask any of my dear artists to return their books.
So here's the deal, if you can live with it, keep it and enjoy the unique copy of this otherwise perfectly wonderful book. If you can't live with it, just let me know and as soon as I receive the replacement copies I will send you one with its head in the right place.

Moving right along...sigh

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

No Rest for the Weary

Reset Button

When I finish a large project there is always huge relief accompanied by a tiny bit of a letdown. After graduating from my Master's Degree (eons ago!) I holed up in the house, became a walking addict and wrote three novels. Only then life went on...

As I write this, I am thinking of several home projects, a rather physically demanding garden/house/yard task or four (...teen), a few print series I have been meaning to finish up, the next puzzle project (of course) and generally trying to organize my jumbled brain into a coherent plan of attack to accomplish even half of what I want to do for the rest of the year.
One thing I know for sure, my friends and family have mandated that I rest for at least a couple of weeks so here I am, resting...NOT!!!

BTW The Books are Mailed

These lovely accounts of our adventure are now off and running to their proper homes. If you missed the opportunity, the book Growing the Garden 2013 is now officially available in Amazon.com, Amazon Europe and soon in Amazon everywhere else. Also in Kindle format through Amazon and in e-book format through CreateSpace (Amazon's POD outfit).
Title: Growing the Fantastic Garden 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1493648306
ISBN-10: 1493648306

But Wait, There's More!

And if you wish you could hang the lovely prints but lack the space, or alternatively if you would like to give the gift of art this holiday season, you can! And in the process you can help fund the deficit for this project and seed the next one.
Visit the Puzzle Prints section in either of 1000 Woodcuts stores and browse the many alternatives in formats and sizes:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1000woodcuts.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=350053
and
https://www.etsy.com/shop/1000woodcuts?section_id=14219552

There are a couple of exhibits in the works for our lovely puzzles and I managed to secure a puzzle prints solo exhibit here in Las Vegas! More about those in the next post.

Books books and other garden things...

Ordered!

Good news for everyone who pre-ordered the Growing the Fantastic Garden 2013 print version book. Last week I finished uploading files and photos and such, editing, re-editing, proofing, re-proofing and finally...

Immediately I headed to my account and ordered your books. Order will be received on or around November 15 and I will immediately send them out to you.

Participants of the Fantastic Garden who pre-ordered one or more books are listed in the Participant List page on this blog. If you do not find your name listed as having ordered a book, let me know:

http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com/p/participant-list.html

Cover Peek

Check it out, like it? It is YOUR work!!!

Where to get it

The book will be available in Amazon.com and Amazon Europe in 5-7 business days. I also paid to have the book distributed to the rest of the world (well, the rest of the world serviced by Amazon) so it should be available later this year everywhere else. A Kindle version is also available, live right now. And may I add how much of a pain it is to re-format the big book on Kindle format! Yikes! But it is done.

There are also other choices. I will be listing the print and e-version (PDF) of the book in my store on Etsy.com as soon as the physical book crosses my threshold.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/1000woodcuts

And another reminder that the Colophon is now available for download through my website:

http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/fantasticgarden/index.html

Other Stuff and Sweet Deals

Also, for everyone and their art loving friends, there are Fantastic Garden quality reproductions and a few sets of original prints available, ready to begin to fund the next madness!

Follow the links from my shop portal to get your own Fantastic Garden goodies:

http://1000woodcuts.com/shop/index.html

To sweeten the deal, here are some relevant codes:

Etsy Shop

TISTHESEASON10 (10% off until end of year)

FREESHIPPING (just that)

OFF20FANTASTIC (20% off on Fantastic Garden goodies)

FineArt America

 BHCXZJ 20% until end of year

That's All Folks!

This concludes this project. After suitable rest, I will begin jotting down the buzzing ideas for the next one so stay tuned to this blog or my Facebook page(s)!

The garden is history!

Colophon ready to download

Colophon

Colophon is defined as a brief description of a book to which it is attached. Traditionally, printmakers use the word colophon to describe details about a collection of prints, usually bound in a folio.

Our Fantastic Garden Colophon expands slightly on the information each participant received with their set of prints. I have heard word that our Garden has reached far across the globe already!
A large version of the print can now be seen online on the project page and you can download the colophon from the links on top of that same page:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/fantasticgarden/index.html

The Book

I am also happy to report that the book is about two days of writing and two more days of editing away from being completed. It is looking to be around 150 pages, with a page dedicated to each participant, extended ramblings, a bit of history on the previous puzzle print projects (say that three times fast), images of the panels, process explanation and photos for those that missed the blog posts, and musings on gardening and printmaking. Will be available in about two weeks give or take from my various shops and on Amazon.com, both print and eBook formats.
Those of you that pre-purchased the book will receive notice of mailing around that time.

Without giving much of it away, here is a sample participant page:

Stay in touch!

Don't forget to stay in touch because once the ink dries on one project I start getting an itch to start another one. Keep an eye on the blogs or my Facebook page or my website: 

Maria Central 1000woodcuts.com

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

They're all gone!

Done mailing

Preview of the book cover!

Quick post! Happy to report all the prints have been mailed. Yesterday I took the last truck load to the Post Office and then I took a long deserved walk in the nearby park.

Funny story about that, one of my neighbors saw me leaving the other day with boxes full of tubes and casually asked me if I was shipping my artwork. I said, yeah, 'tis the season... Well, yesterday again as I literally loaded 56 long triangular packages onto the back of my truck (don't worry, I live very close to the P.O.) he saw me again and said: "boy you sure sell a lot of art!"
I replied kind of casually, "yeah, not bad really, about 100 bucks a pop profit I guess". Then I left him standing there with his mouth wide open staring at my truck full of tubes. Har har!

Finances in good shape

Seriously now, the finances came in about right, although I always seem to underestimate some expenses. The only thing not accounted for is the printing and mailing the Growing the Garden book and that will be finished mid-November! About three months earlier than expected. I am pleased as pie.
Books will go out in about three weeks so you will have them in time for Christmas!

Share the fantasy!

Feel free to show your prints to everyone, post on social madness, er, media, and all that. Spread the word to all your printmaking friends and friends of friends, and that will help make the next puzzle print bigger and better!!! YEAH, I said bigger...

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

Announcement From the Shipping Department

Mail Room Stuff

After a particularly successful festival a few years back, I had to pack and mail several woodcuts, special orders, framing orders and such. A customer replied within days of my mailing asking me to please forward a note to the Shipping Department commending them for their careful and fast shipping. Funny how the web makes us look good sometimes, isn't it?

My studio is a mail room!
Stacks of prints, rejects toward the back, set ready to roll on the right.

Well, you will be happy to know that I authorized overtime pay for the Shipping Department and three quarters of the Fantastic Garden sets have already been mailed! I always start with the ones that will take the longest to get there so my world friends don't have to wait so long. Everyone should get an email with shipping and tracking/customs information in the next day or two.
With "the guys" in shipping working so hard, I predict all the prints will be mailed by tomorrow or Thursday.

I set up the stacks of prints so I can stamp the back with the official Fantastic Garden stamp. Then I turn each print over one by one, give it a last minute inspection, reject some particularly annoying ones and make a set. Roll the set between scrap paper, in this case architects proofs that I steal from the recycle stack of an architect's shop. Good proofing paper!

A bit of plastic protection in case of rain and into tubes they go, trimmed to fit the international 24 inch limit. Domestic sets I ship in USPS provided cartons, free with Priority Mail service. It's all very boring, really but I kind of get into looking at each set of prints as they go off into the world.

Tape gun (doesn't everybody have one?), scale, tubes...

Ready to fly to faraway lands!

Colophon

Prints were mailed with an information sheet. An expanded Fantastic Garden Colophon will be available as a PDF download shortly.
I will make an announcement when it is finished.

The Book!

Growing the Garden is well under construction and should be available later this year, in about four weeks. The original estimate was to finish the book in January but I'm feeling industrious...or should I say, the Publications Department is feeling good!!!

Must be that second spring we get here in the desert about this time of the year, complete with purple sage and yellow lantana blooms and a tad of spring fever.

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

Tidying up the Garden

Kickstarter Update

I just sent what may be the very last update to participants and backers of the Kickstarter Project that, well, kick-started the Fantastic Garden.
Here is the full text of the update with a yummy repro of the whole print:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/557726766/fantastic-garden-monumental-collaborative-puzzle-p/posts/630165

List Getting Shorter

Here is my list of things to do from last post, with updates:

1. Finish colophon of information to be sent to everyone with prints - CHECK Waiting for the printed info sheets to be delivered at my doorstep in two days.
2. Have colophon copied 92 times CHECK! same as #1
3. Finish putting together and formatting book (will take a while longer) - WORKING...
4. Take better photos of finished prints for poster size rewards - CHECK
5. Send pics to POD outfit for fulfilling rewards - CHECK Waiting for posters and other rewards to be delivered in about four business days
6. Pack and mail 92 sets of prints - Tubes ready and waiting; Mailing list cleaned up and uploaded to my mail program.
7. Pack and mail roughly 50 books and about 18 other rewards to backers of project
8. Start new project - Oh dear, ideas are waaaay too many and jumbled right now but soon, my preciousssss, soooooon...

The Last Print Video

And last but not least, as promised, just got done editing the very sad video entitled Fantastic Garden: THE LAST PRINT :-)

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

And then...SUCCESS!!!

The Garden is Printed!

Unbelievable but true, I finished all 440 prints today. Yes, I am tired, you bet. But happy tired.
I have a video or two of the last print being printed which I will upload shortly.

There is always more to do though. Aside from finishing up the "reporting" videography (wait 'til you see my exciting cleaning video!), the tasks left for the project are as follows:

1. Finish colophon of information to be sent to everyone with prints
2. Have colophon copied 92 times
3. Finish putting together and formatting book (will take a while longer)
4. Upload book and get proof copies, then publish
5. Order roughly 50 books for participants and backers of project
6. Take better photos of finished prints for poster size rewards
7. Send pics to POD outfit for fulfilling rewards
8. Pack and mail 92 sets of prints
9. Pack and mail roughly 50 books and about 18 other rewards to backers of project
10. Start new project MWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

The prints

Here they are, the last two sets hanging peacefully in my very clean studio.

Am I the only one that really enjoys all those print edges hanging together? Hmmmm...

And here is a sneak peek at all the panels (yay!):

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

And then there were two

Halfway there!

Progress comes to those who work and work and work and work. Here is a pic of three full racks of prints, labor of love for all my dear fellow fantastic gardeners.
After a looooong Monday, I confess I took the day off today to regroup and carbo-load, ready for another printing session tomorrow.

While I was taking the day off, I took the dry(er) prints down and stacked them to make room for the ones from the next block. Then I prepared the next block, which took a while longer than I expected. Seems I neglected to shave off the edges on this one and my own background carving was a bit rough. I cleaned up some backgrounds and such. I'm nervous about this next one because of some detail blocks but I trust the printmaking gods will watch over me and all will be fine.

I cleaned the press bed and the press, got the next batch of paper ready, straightened out the blankets and reset the pressure, cut some more newsprint and brought out the next can of ink (third one!).

Then some office work, I took pictures of the last two blocks and formatted them for the book and such, took pictures of the first two prints, updated the blog page with participant names and books pre-ordered, worked a little on the colophon design, worked a little on the book formatting, made a slide show of the garden growing with the last four added, and now I'm blogging.

Here is the short slide show, enjoy!

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

Print_Tricks

Friday's activities

Playing around in the studio...and later in PS Premiere. I need another Maria!
Monday I should finish block number two and the other two blocks are now complete and patiently awaiting their turn. One of my favorite movie lines of all times: "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." (from Pixar's Finding Nemo, line masterfully delivered by Ellen Degeneres)

Printing the Garden! Finally! Really!!!!!

All in a day's work...

Well, make that two days' work!
Some videos for you mere mortals, mwahahaha (sorry, the sweeeet smell of ink is affecting me).
Seriously, I am HAPPY to report that one block is printed! Yeah, the whole thing, all 120-some prints, hanging pretty. I am currently prepping block numero dos and I will attack it first thing in the morning.

Here are two videos, identical but the first is raw with all the music and noise of my studio. The second is edited, with stills inserted and narration (yawn! I like the flamenco better). Enjoy!





Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

Block Prep 2

Last Few Touches

Another short video on block prep and a video on press preparation. To see the full text of the press prep you will have to mosey on over to my main blog:
http://1000woodcuts.blogspot.com

Finishing gluing the blocks in place:

Preparing the block for press:

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

Easy Relief Printing With an Etching Press

Press prep for painless perfect prints

Go ahead, say that 3 times in a row fast!
There are various issues when printing relief prints with a press and a hundred ways to solve them.

One of the most prevalent is paper slipping, especially at the edges of the block, which results in a "double" edge print or simply a blurred edge usually on the trailing edge.
With smaller blocks, I have a three prong method of solving this problem. I use runners, a thin felt, rubber blanket or matboard tympan, and I lay the block at a slight angle to the roller. With larger blocks that fill the press bed, such as the Fantastic Garden blocks, I needed a better method.

Runners and a Chase

Block "locked" side to side and end to end

Most printing problems can be solved by placing two runners perpendicular to the press roller, along the edges of the press. These runners should be about the same height of the block being printed and serve two purposes:
1. They support the roller and avoid bed warp
2. They keep the roller from bouncing on and off the block

Shelf support keeps end piece flush to end of block,
strip with peg keeps the runners flush to sides of block

For the Fantastic Garden, I took a page off the letterpress manual (well, not literally) and built a chase of sorts.  A letterpress chase is a shallow box, slightly lower in height than the block, that completely encloses the block to be printed. Pieces of wood called furniture are placed in the chase around the letter-form (the block to be printed) and the furniture locks the form so that it does not move while printing.

Since I am inking by hand, I did not need to completely "lock" the block tightly but I did need a way to prevent the roller from slipping off the edge of the block and causing the dreaded double edge. The Fantastic Garden prints are bleed prints so any slippage of the paper had to be prevented. As you will see in the video, I simply cut a few pieces of wood to fit the perimeter of the block and secured them with pegs and shelf supports.

Blankets, Felts, Blotters?

In order to even out the pressure over the darks and lines of the block, for relief work, a thin blanket, blotter and matboard or a rubber blanket are used. A thick etching blanket is not necessary and may in fact push the paper to the carved valleys, where it may pick up unwanted ink. Thick blankets are used sometimes when embossing is desired.
For the Fantastic Garden blocks, I am faced with deeply carved blocks, next to shallow delicate carvings, next to dark areas next to line work. Quite a challenge to please everyone!

The choice for the Fantastic Garden blocks, after some testing, was a thin felt blanket backed with a rubber blankets. I used a blotter to protect the felt from picking up ink. A few proofs on any block usually give the best tympan for that particular print. The thin felt accommodates for various heights, the rubber blanket keeps the tympan "hard" enough so no embossing or dipping will occur. The blotter just keeps things clean!

Press Prep Video

This video and others in my new and improved? (so Google+ says) YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3zMh-qyRRieyCmzEgGdWQ

Ready to print!

Work begins!

My studio is a-buzzing with activity. I made a couple of videos of prepping the block and printing but as usual I'm behind editing and posting. 

The first is ready, beginning to prep the block. Next one I glue the block to the backing board so everything stays together while printing. And after that, I prep the press and get ready to print.

Prepping the block

Excitement builds! Next prepping the press...

Caboose

This is it

This concludes the individual pieces that I will publish on the blog.
As I have been publishing online, I have also been building the Growing the Garden printed book, which will have all the individual comments, photos of the blocks as you have seen them, photos of the printed pieces, and of course the usual "map" with all the participant's names and their location in the Fantastic Garden.

Some have asked what info they will receive with the prints. Even if you did not pre-purchase the printed book, all participants and backers will receive the information sheets with pictures of the 4 panels, the 4 panel map of the participants, and my usual comments about the project.

Everything is on course to be sent back to participants and backers of the Kickstarter project alike in the next month or two. Today I am finishing up the block chase which should make things a bit easier in the printing process.

Next in line for the preparation tasks are to continue to tweak a few blocks that look like may be problematic (did I not say to carve deep?), and perhaps I may get to actually proof a few of them this weekend just to make sure they will behave properly.
Videos and photos upcoming. Here are the last two blocks. I balanced the Kookaburra between the live and dried trunks of one of the Palo Verde trees. I always mean to cut down the dry stuff but love the contrast between yellow and green trunks...and the birds love to perch on them!

Melissa Read-Devine - Sydney AUSTRALIA
http://www.readdevine.com
"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree", a well known nursery song sung by Australian children. This one is typical, sitting patiently, watching for a tasty snack to slither or crawl his way. Watch out if you are having a BBQ in your garden - these guys are notorious sausage thieves!

Maria Arango  Diener - Las Vegas, Nevada USA
http://1000woodcuts.com
"Cricket and the Two-Tailed Lizard"
Cricket was a feral rescue who loved playing in the garden, much to the chagrin of lizards and birds, mostly. We named her after her favorite prey, crickets, which she chased under the hollyhocks. But she also often brought us lizard tails...still twitching after being torn from their rightful (annoyed, surely!) owners. Cricket (1997-2013) is now a very happy inhabitant of the Fantastic Garden and has a best friend, a two-tailed lizard. 
I imagine the ongoing game goes something like this: Cricket chases lizard, lizard sheds one tail and escapes with the other one intact, everyone happy. Lizard grows tail back. Next game, Cricket chases lizard...

Print Party?

Well this year there is not going to be a print party, exactly. Oh I have fun, no doubt about that! I'm a one-woman print party animal! Flamenco music will be playing LOUD in my studio to keep me "in the mood", and strong coffee and energy bars will be served often.
But just too much going on right now to travel to my friendly helper crew in the Northwest or anywhere else. I will miss them dearly...I will pay the price with sore shoulders, no doubt, and nobody will be yelling "printmaker down!" when I collapse on the floor to stretch my back. Aaahh, good times for sure!

So here is the deal, I will begin printing next week and, even employing the mighty power of all the available Marias put together, printing will continue for about three weeks. Daily. Lordie, good thing I've been hitting the rowing machine daily during the "training" phase.
Want to drop by? Sure! I can use press crankers, print hangers, paper placers, and large roller wielders. Drop me a line 1000woodcuts at gmail dot com and we can chat about it.


Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com

More Pieces

Enjoy the last few!

Amanda Gordon-Miller - Baltimore, Maryland USA
Poppies for the garden!

Sarah Hope Parmeter - Santa Cruz, California USA

Wendy Shaft - Williamston, Michigan USA
http://wendyshaft.blogspot.com
A collaborative project, like this, reminds me that I am not alone as a relief printmaker. This is second project with Maria and what a glorious experience to see the final art.

Mary Weimer Green - Avon Lake, Ohio USA

Fantastic Garden Headquarters: http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com