Jigsaw 4, Series 3

A reprise of Jigsaw 2, Series 2 of on or about the 16th November 2012, that is to say getting on for 18 months ago. Picture itself seen at least once in the interval, most recently on 2nd March.

I enjoyed doing this jigsaw, but on this occasion rather than writing my notes blind, I have read those from the last occasion first.

I find that most of what I said then stands today, the main variation being the order, in that this time I did clothes (does one spell the plural of a piece of cloth this way?), then bodies, then townscape then landscape. Last time the bodies came after the undifferentiated landscape.

New camera does a much better job on the illustration than the old, although some of this may be down to the lighting conditions. Interesting the way that the camera picks up the pieces of the jigsaw and their joins much more strongly than the naked eye.

Having enjoyed the reprise, I shall experiment by doing the jigsaw again, forthwith. How does proximity affect the experience? The jigsaw is now all ready to go again, all the pieces face up and sorted into edge, irregular and other - where by irregular I mean the twenty or so pieces (out of the 500 or so) which do not conform to the usual rectangular format, that is to say something which is essentially rectangular with exactly one prong or one hole on each of the four sides - but nothing is joined up yet. We shall see how it goes.

PS: click to enlarge the picture and you should be able to find an irregular piece. For example, half way between the flying lump of red cloth and the top, just to the right of the white tuft sticking out of the rock face. Happy viewing! The improbability of the flying lump presumably bothered neither artist nor customer, this despite the overall realistic tone of the thing.