Custom Puzzle Craft - Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle 27

The brightly colored painting featured in this puzzle was painted by San Diego artist, Renée Tay.

For Renee Tay prints available as puzzles see: Renee Tay - Prints

I used my standard Swirl Curl cutting style although there are some "open curls" as discussed in Puzzle 26.

The figure in "Cosmic Mother" presented a challenge, as I prefer to cut around the edges of exposed areas of the woman. I eventually adopted a strategy of focusing on the colored spots, more so for the upper part of the body - so the puzzle piece edges appear as an artifact of the spots draped over the image.

This is the second Renée Tay picture I've done. The first one was a very difficult to put together. In this puzzle, I decided to make some of the edges directly interlock and the pieces are a little larger (the puzzle has 208 pieces versus 263 in "In Heaven's Arms").

Puzzles 24 and 25 each had a butterfly piece. In this puzzle I decided to make a multi-piece butterfly and it came out quite well (see picture, below). I've been adding stars to a number of my recent puzzles, this one included. This star figural is a little more "swirly". Finally, I added a Yin-Yang symbol figural consisting of two pieces, a response to the painting.

Significant milestones

Largest Multi-Piece Figural

Name		Cosmic Mother
Date Completed		June 22, 2000
Puzzle #		27
Artist		Renée Tay
Image Source		Renée Tay
Size		13 3/8" wide by 10 5/8" high
Cutting Style		Swirl Curl (some open curl mixed in)
# Pieces		208
Color Line Cutting		None (except a little around the face and some of the dots)
Figurals		Butterfly (9 multi-piece); swirl star, stylized Yin-Yang symbol (2 pieces)
Treat Piece		None