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.
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
Here is the pile of pieces before assembly
Pile of pieces to start. Pen and fingers for size comparison
Pieces spread out to begin
I started with the greens and dark blues
Then I moved to the reds
Then came the light blues
Then came the rest
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!