Puzzlewood no801 670pc The Wedding of the Owl & the Pussy Cat by Owen Wood, 3D-enhanced Jigsaw DSC06913
Feb 2024
For David Shearer's talk Anything But Square. This jigsaw was inspired by a shaped British Jigsaw Library puzzle cut by Dick Sawbridge. Heather has created something even more splendid, and made it 3D-enhanced too.
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Post Script: I took the two jigsaws of this series to the June 2022 meeting, themed 'Jigsaws Telling Stories through Visual Humour or a Caption'. 'Pea-Green Boat' was made up at the meeting (for the third time) and Wedding was the jewel in my show & tell.
Taking the jigsaw to the glass door really improves the photo.
There are three levels to this 3D-enhanced jigsaw cut by Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood.
Puzzlewood 670pc The Wedding of the Owl & the Pussy Cat by Owen Wood.
Edward Lear's poem
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
During the fourth session, when things started moving quickly - until the main scene was complete and all that remained was the tree canopy. This contains many dropouts in the tree canopy so my rate of progress slowed to a snail's pace for the remainder. I was also confused by the birds, because I'd assumed they were standing on the ground. I finished the jigsaw at the end of the day and it is stunning. Below you can see the British Library jigsaw which led me to commission my own version.
Eventually I would like four illustrations from this book as Owl & the Pussy Cat jigsaws; this is my second but chronologically the third of the four I chose from the story. Genest Le Colimacon has also made me three Figure-it-out style jigsaws to Owen's illustrations of Lear's famous Limericks.
Puzzlewood no801 670pc The Wedding of the Owl & the Pussy Cat by Owen Wood, 3D-enhanced Jigsaw DSC06913
Feb 2024
For David Shearer's talk Anything But Square. This jigsaw was inspired by a shaped British Jigsaw Library puzzle cut by Dick Sawbridge. Heather has created something even more splendid, and made it 3D-enhanced too.
-
Post Script: I took the two jigsaws of this series to the June 2022 meeting, themed 'Jigsaws Telling Stories through Visual Humour or a Caption'. 'Pea-Green Boat' was made up at the meeting (for the third time) and Wedding was the jewel in my show & tell.
Taking the jigsaw to the glass door really improves the photo.
There are three levels to this 3D-enhanced jigsaw cut by Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood.
Puzzlewood 670pc The Wedding of the Owl & the Pussy Cat by Owen Wood.
Edward Lear's poem
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
During the fourth session, when things started moving quickly - until the main scene was complete and all that remained was the tree canopy. This contains many dropouts in the tree canopy so my rate of progress slowed to a snail's pace for the remainder. I was also confused by the birds, because I'd assumed they were standing on the ground. I finished the jigsaw at the end of the day and it is stunning. Below you can see the British Library jigsaw which led me to commission my own version.
Eventually I would like four illustrations from this book as Owl & the Pussy Cat jigsaws; this is my second but chronologically the third of the four I chose from the story. Genest Le Colimacon has also made me three Figure-it-out style jigsaws to Owen's illustrations of Lear's famous Limericks.