1000 Piece Oil Painting Jigsaw Puzzle

I work 1000-piece Max Renard puzzles because they are so vibrant and well made. My favorite feature is that the backs of the pieces are numbered 1-6 on some puzzles and with 6 different colors on others. These colors tell you what section of the puzzle any given piece goes in. The result is that you can separate the 1000 pieces into yellowbacks, pinkbacks, bluebacks, etc., or 1, 2, 3, etc., put the pieces of each color or number in its own bowl (if you have six cereal bowls, let's say), and then work one section at a time. It still takes a couple of weeks to put the puzzle together, but the task is challenging and fun rather than slow and frustrating. Okay, there's just enough frustration to let you know you're working a thousand-piece puzzle, but it doesn't spoil the fun. And when you're through, you can smile rather than saying to yourself, I'm glad that's over. It helps that many of the pictures are of fine art, and very colorful.