Tesselated Fish Puzzle

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The 'Tesselated Fish' Puzzle is an approximately 250 piece, hand cut jigsaw puzzle, cut from original art work painted on 6.5mm ply.  This puzzle features 48 individual tesselated fish shapes cut as push-fit pieces fitting into a red cedar framed tray. Each of the fish are a mini puzzle of from 5 to 8 fully interlocking pieces, mostly 5 or 6 pieces.

This puzzle would be very challenging to re-assemble when all the separate pieces are mixed. If the individual Fish that comprise the puzzle picture were kept intact it would be a matter of fitting each shaped and painted fish to its neighbour and to the frame. If all the pieces are mixed then all the fish shapes need to be assembled as 48 mixed mini puzzles with similar outline shapes. This puzzle has not been disassembled yet but only put together after sanding smooth the reverse side of each piece.

The stages of producing this puzzle include tracing the original design drawn on paper onto a gesso-primed 6.5mm ply board. The linework in this line and wash painting, has then been 'inked-in with black acrylic ink using a pointed nib dip pen.

Thinned washes of black acrlic ink have then been painted over the line work, to establish tones, shading and modelling of forms. This monochrome grey underpainting, now ready for colouring has then been colourised with subsequent separate transparent layered washes of coloured acrylic ink; burnt sienna, pthalo blue and orange yellow.

Some accent colour of red acrylic and metallic colour have also been applied prior to final varnishing and cutting. Each of the figural pieces have been painted on the reverse side in the same manner as the main painting.

$500 AUD (About $1.30 USD per piece)