Sweet Ride
| Puzzle Link | Link |
|---|---|
| Puzzle Artist | Steve Crisp |
| Puzzle Maker | White Mountain Puzzles |
| Piece Count | 1000 |
| Category | The Puzzles Of Steve Crisp |
| Tags | bright colors |
We are big time jigsaw puzzle fans, and the coronavirus lockdown started for us in about mid-March of 2020. Yet this was the first jigsaw puzzle we worked since the lockdown started! This was because getting trapped in my house did not make me immediately bored. I was quite happy to have a big block of time to update my websites, rent a bunch of movies, and kick off some major home improvements.
In early May of 2020 we finally found time to start a puzzle on the occasion of Emily’s birthday. And the one we opened was “Sweet Ride” by puzzle artist Steve Crisp and made by White Mountain Puzzles (1,000 pieces).
It seems that Steve Crisp has pivoted recently from making very British puzzles images to assemble at tea time, to coalescing the psyche of the big land known as USA (where I live) into puzzle format. Drive-in movies, drive-in restaurants, diners, sock hops, the Statue of Liberty… All of these containing all the right details and done with Mr. Crisp’s great eye for visual arrangement.
This puzzle, Sweet Ride, was very fun to work, lovely when assembled. In real life, the gleaming Thunderbird fairly jumps straight out of the puzzle. The scenery is like a nature lesson with its Joshua tree, cactuses, tumbleweeds, roadrunner, and more. There are many fun details to uncover when working this puzzle. And most of all, the puzzle does capture the joy of taking a car ride in the west on a long summer evening.
The puzzle itself, done by White Mountain Puzzles, was very good. Nice purple chipboard. Hardly any puzzle dust. Fun piece shapes, and everything fits together perfectly.
Another good one by Steve Crisp and White Mountain Puzzles. See more photos in the gallery at the end of this post.
Mystery Lady
She’s back!
If you work enough Steve Crisp puzzles, you may start to recognize the mystery lady. She has been at Sid’s Drive-In, inside the diner, and more places than I can remember right now. I suppose it’s not too big a leap to think that Mr. Crisp inserts his friend as characters into the puzzles.
In fact, the whole car load of people in this puzzle can be identified as characters in the Sid’s Drive-In puzzle, as if they finished their food and were going for an evening drive. What a fun development in jigsaw puzzles, to have a story line that travels from one puzzle to another! That earlier puzzle was called “American Drive-In”, 1450pz, by Steve Crisp and White Mountain Puzzles.
Gallery
The pieces are turned out
See what we did first
The Thunderbird
The western scenery
The picturesque landscape
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