About the picture
Seen from a hill above, the village is a scatter of red-ochre wooden houses with white window frames, several of them lit yellow from inside. Smoke rises from the chimneys into the cold air, birches and spruces fill the gaps between the houses, and the frozen lake lies white below.
Computer-generated scene; it does not show a specific real place.
How to approach this jigsaw
Start with the frame: switch on Edges and only border pieces stay on the table. After the frame, build the parts with strong shapes and colour: the red houses, the lit windows, the chimney smoke.
Leave for the end: the open snow, the night sky. Pieces from these areas look alike, so match them by the shape of their tabs and blanks rather than by colour.
Picture character
Large areas of nearly one tone — a slow, absorbing puzzle. A smaller size makes a good warm-up. Demanding →
