Sunset Crossing

This was my first Diamond Art Club project and I feel like I started from the deep end. This is the largest diamond painting I've bought so far and it did take three months of steady almost-daily work to complete. The finished painting is bright, colourful, and very beautiful.

The design is excellent of course. The canvas is of very good quality and the adhesive was strong over the entire surface of the artwork. I'm not sure if I like the way the covering plastic is perforated because it forced me to only work on one square at a time. That's not my preference because I like working one colour in an area at a time, and I would like more freedom in how I structure my work. The perforations also tore quite a bit.

I would have given this five stars, however the quality of the resin diamonds was only adequate. The sizes were very uneven and many times had bits of flashing around the edges or outright holes. In the finished design you don't notice this, but I am fussy about my placement and I wanted it to be perfect and it certainly wasn't. If I had been strict about it, I would have discarded about 10% of the diamonds. I didn't because I was worried about running out of diamonds.

I am still very happy with the finished work.