Pups and Pups and Pups and Pups
94 Pieces, with 10 Figurals, and 18 Picture Elements
Cutting: Genuine Oak Ply
Approximate Size: 12 inches x 12 inches
Completed on: February 1, 2011
Original Artwork: Artist Unknown
"Pups and Pups and Pups and Pups" was cut for my son as a gift for his 8th birthday. Each of the pups in the artwork are cut out individually, and to keep the other puzzle pieces somewhat balanced with them, I made them rather large. Since all of the space between the dogs is yellow with paw prints, making the filler pieces small would have been somewhat tedious to assemble, I think.
I sculpted out the top border of the puzzle so that it was made up of a row of different types of dogs playing together.
This little dog is using the poodle's nose to try and see what all of the fuss is about.
A puppy must have been trampling on the puzzle, because each of the bottom corners have a paw print dropout.
One problem I was faced with was that although most of the pups in the artwork were different, there were several which were exactly the same as one another. I wasn't using locking tabs on them, and I really didn't want it to be possible for the same piece to fit into more that one possibe location. To overcome this, I made subtle changes on some of the pieces by altering their dog tags.
The puzzle contains 10 Figural Pieces, and of these there are 8 dog bones, each one representing one year of my son's new age. One of the Figurals is shaped like a stuffed dog that he has had since being really little.
....and, here's a picture of the back of the puzzle.
Jeremy is my Chief Puzzle Assembler, and I truly believe the ones he most enjoys assembling are the puzzles he gets for his birthday!
