Harvest Festival is a colorful, entertaining, and gorgeous puzzle that I enjoyed immensely! It combined the fun of working with such an interesting image with the challenge of a semi-random cut – and to top it off it was a very good quality puzzle. 🙂

Tidemark puzzles are a new to me company, and I was pretty impressed with both the image and the quality. The pieces are semi-randomly cut, a good thickness, and fit together quite well. The image reproduction is bright and colorful with crisp lines and very little glare. Their catalog is quite small with only 8 images to choose from, but if one of them strikes your fancy you should give it a try. (Most of them are a little muted for my taste, but there may be something you’d love to assemble.)

The wavy lines of color weren’t easy and got a little tedious on the last day of assembly, but I still love the image and am super proud of myself for sticking with it.

The artwork by Jonathan Green is so striking that I couldn’t help but enjoy myself; bright colors in a puzzle make me happy, and don’t we all need a little more happiness in our lives? I know I do. 🙂

Details:

• Title:                  Harvest Festival
• Artist:                Jonathan Green
• Brand:               Tidemark
• Piece count:     1000 pieces
• Size:                  Approx. 19 x 27 in. (48 x 67 cm)
• Purchased:      New

Quality:

• Board:               Very good
• Cutting:             Very good
• Image:               Very good
• Box:                   Average
• Fit:                     Very good
• Puzzle Dust:     Moderate amount
• Piece cut:          Semi-random cut
• Piece shapes:   Good variety
• Finish:               Slightly shiny finish, lays flat

Overall Rating:      Very good, recommended