Every couple of years puzzle makers, collectors and puzzle doers from all over come together to talk puzzles. We were fortunate that we had the opportunity to give a presentation at this years Puzzle Parley in Salem Massachusetts, I promised Melinda Shebell from Jardin Puzzles that I would come up with something that would knock her socks off! She was amazed but laughed saying "I fooled you, I'm not wearing any socks!"
So maybe we can knock your socks off.
- Dee
"The Clown 1906"
Kees Van Dongon - around 750 pieces
This idea came to me as I was finishing working a jigsaw puzzle that had seamed to take way to long to put together. When the last piece went in it was bitter sweet. I was so happy to conquer the challenge but now sad that the puzzle was finished. I wanted it to keep going on. Soooo, I thought what if it could keep going, another puzzle within a puzzle or a game within a puzzle.
What if the figurals could change maybe tell a story. I cut many samples and here is how it works.
Well it is a circus...
so we took three jumping doggies from the clowns hat on the top left of the puzzle and ...
A little clown holding a hoop from the top right of the puzzle...
and we put them together so the little doggies are jumping through the little clowns hoop in the bottom left of the puzzle.
Now that's amazing!!
But we did not stop there
Our ringmaster will take it from here
Here are two pop up shadow figurals
this lion tamer means business
Wow!
This circus is really starting to come together.
How about some ...
Dainty Dancers on
Prancing Ponies
or
Rough riding bears on
big wheeled bikes.
I think this was the trickiest for the puzzler to figure out how it goes together.
Can you believe it ! it forms a platform for the elephant to sit on.
I love this one!
and now the grand finally.... steady, steady
10 acrobatic clowns
form a clown pyramid
every figural came from somewhere in the puzzle and fit together somewhere else in the puzzle.
Did we knock your socks off?
You can buy this puzzle, there is nothing else like it.
The Clown - 750 pieces
$1,875.00