BCD Apr24 Virtual S&T Puzzlewood 623pc Funny Hunting & Other Tinga Tinga Jigsaws Incl Heye Cardboard Heather P 41
Lower Left: For show & tell for Beyond European Shores Heather showed her latest Tinga Tinga jigsaw 'Funny Hunting'.
Puzzlewood no1064 623pc Funny Hunting by Mgumba, Tinga Tinga art, Tanzania, 39x39cm (already sold April24).
This style of painting is now known as Tinga Tinga art, after its originator, Edward Tingatinga (1932-1972), who was born in southern Tanzania. Being poor, initially he used recycled low-cost materials like masonite squares, ceramic fragments and bicycle paint. Now there is a Tinga Tinga workshop in Dar es Salaam where over 100 artists work, using normal painting materials like oil and acrylic. The style is naive, can be surrealist and is often humorous. It often features African animals in bright colours, like this one. The pictures make good puzzles, fun to cut and to put together.
Right Column: Puzzlewood no1003 354pc Flock of Birds in Tree by Mangula, Tanzania 29x29cm, shown in Jan 2023, with Heather's spiral connectors joining the concentric square cuts.
Another earlier version of this design by Heather is circulating in the USA Hoefnagel Library (Puzzlewood 376pc Hoefnagel Puzzle Club Mangula Flock of Birds).
Top Row: Heye has a range of 1000pc cardboard Tinga Tinga art jigsaws. Shown are 29425 Zebra by Mgumba, 29428 Cranes, 29426 Giraffes & 29427 Wildcat Family.
Nautilus has also done at least one Nautilus 320pc Tinga Tinga Animals by Sabina Jane Blackbird, 15x10in.
BCD Apr24 Virtual S&T Puzzlewood 623pc Funny Hunting & Other Tinga Tinga Jigsaws Incl Heye Cardboard Heather P 41
Lower Left: For show & tell for Beyond European Shores Heather showed her latest Tinga Tinga jigsaw 'Funny Hunting'.
Puzzlewood no1064 623pc Funny Hunting by Mgumba, Tinga Tinga art, Tanzania, 39x39cm (already sold April24).
This style of painting is now known as Tinga Tinga art, after its originator, Edward Tingatinga (1932-1972), who was born in southern Tanzania. Being poor, initially he used recycled low-cost materials like masonite squares, ceramic fragments and bicycle paint. Now there is a Tinga Tinga workshop in Dar es Salaam where over 100 artists work, using normal painting materials like oil and acrylic. The style is naive, can be surrealist and is often humorous. It often features African animals in bright colours, like this one. The pictures make good puzzles, fun to cut and to put together.
Right Column: Puzzlewood no1003 354pc Flock of Birds in Tree by Mangula, Tanzania 29x29cm, shown in Jan 2023, with Heather's spiral connectors joining the concentric square cuts.
Another earlier version of this design by Heather is circulating in the USA Hoefnagel Library (Puzzlewood 376pc Hoefnagel Puzzle Club Mangula Flock of Birds).
Top Row: Heye has a range of 1000pc cardboard Tinga Tinga art jigsaws. Shown are 29425 Zebra by Mgumba, 29428 Cranes, 29426 Giraffes & 29427 Wildcat Family.
Nautilus has also done at least one Nautilus 320pc Tinga Tinga Animals by Sabina Jane Blackbird, 15x10in.