Inspiration in Unexpected Places

Last spring, I was wandering around a community wide yard sale.  I discovered a local artist who makes beautiful watercolor paintings.  She had several that caught my eye.  One in particular jumped off the wall at me as an ideal puzzle subject!  So, I bought it and obtained permission to use prints of it for my puzzles.  The painting is of a flower.  But, she did not stop there.  The finished puzzle was cut into strips, and then the strips were woven together and framed.

Water color of flower

Barbara Hoisington Water color painting of flower

I removed the painting from the frame, scanned it, printed it, and mounted it to a board.  When trimmed up, the puzzle was 11 7/8″ tall and 15 7/8″ wide.  After cutting, the number of pieces came out to 497.  This is a interesting puzzle, as I cut several of the internal edges as straight edges.  This will be not be easily assembled by starting with edge pieces!

Some of the internal straight edges are shown. Others are not

Some of the internal straight edges are shown. Others are not

Here is the pile of pieces before assembly

Pile of pieces to start. Pen and fingers for size comparison

Pile of pieces to start. Pen and fingers for size comparison

 

 

Pieces spread out to begin

Pieces spread out to begin

 

I started with the greens and blues

I started with the greens and dark blues

 

Then I moved to the reds

Then I moved to the reds

 

Then came the light blues

Then came the light blues

 

Then came the rest

Then came the rest

 

The backside of the puzzle

The backside of the puzzle

 

So, something a little unique.  It is a fun puzzle, but not one to just begin with the edge pieces first!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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