Whiterabbit-uk,

The images from today's surreal jigsaw images were remarkably similar to the art of an ex-girlfriend of mine (from the late 80's) who I courted for a year while at university. She painted in a very similar fashion to this unknown artist. We used to paint and draw each other in psychedelic/surreal ways and would go out into the countryside and spend an afternoon drawing various subjects such as trees, dry stone walls and old buildings with superimposed images of ourselves. My favourite medium was coloured pencils as they were less messy than oils and other paints. Regrettably, I only have one drawing she did with oil pastels that was given as a present during our time together; (the drawing reminded me of the scene from the 1959 version of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' where they find a chamber full of giant mushrooms) One of my best and largest works was painting a bathroom ceiling and walls for a friend who wanted somewhere to relax. I used oils for the scene, included galaxies, gaseous clouds, planets and a comet (for the comet and suns I initially painted the subjects then sprayed crushed luminescent dust onto them, which created a glow in the dark effect and gave the whole scene an eerie ghostly appearance when the main light was turned off; the bathroom had no windows. . The work took me almost two weeks to complete and the cost of the materials (paints, brushes and pallet knives was astronomical), but the result was one of my favourite works despite getting a really sore neck while painting the ceiling. I have some photographs of each of the walls and ceiling somewhere. I'll post them in the forums one day if anyone is interested. ;) Sadly, the tower block where I painted the scene was knocked down years ago. :(

The very first jigsaw puzzle we were given back in February 2008 was called The Infinite Jigsaw puzzle, which had an amazing amount of configurability, such as the ability to change the shape of the puzzle pieces, change the size of the puzzle from a 24 to a 1024 piece puzzle, (you'd need a very large monitor of at least 30'' to 40'' to be able to solve the larger puzzles) as well as the ability to upload any image you had. You can see that giveaway HERE.

There are other free jigsaw puzzles that are still available that are similar to Infinite Jigsaw that also have the ability to upload your own images and select different shapes and sizes e.g. Astra Gift Maker HERE, and from the same site, BigJig HERE and Lena Games for a selection of other jigsaws HERE. You can also do a free daily jigsaw curtesy of Shockwave HERE
There are commercial versions that are very configurable for example Jigsaws Galore HERE and BrainsBreaker HERE. you'll almost certainly be able to find lots more free and commercial jigsaws just by Googling. :)

If you are stuck for images to upload to the above free jigsaw games (which I doubt), there are a plethora of sites that offer free images; one of my favourites that I've visited often is called Digital Blasphemy, where you can download free versions of commercial images that are ideal for the above free and commercial jigsaw puzzles. You can find Digital Blasphemy HERE.

Whiterabbit-uk,

Here are some more images of today's giveaway