{"product_id":"chat-zen-puzzle-en-bois","title":"Zen Cat Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA cat with its eyes shut and its chin up\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA long-haired ginger cat, head tilted back and eyes closed, sitting on a bank of violet cloud that spills over the bottom of the disc. The pose is the whole design: nothing else in our round range shows an animal with its eyes closed, and it changes what the finished piece does on a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fur is drawn as long flowing strokes rather than as pattern, cream and white through the chest and throat, deepening to marmalade and amber across the shoulders and ears. Behind, the ground burns from magenta and coral at the sides into deep violet at the top, with small white starbursts scattered through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eNot the same cat as our other one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/gentle-cat-wooden-puzzle\"\u003eGentle Cat\u003c\/a\u003e is a paisley silhouette: flat ornament, hard-edged motifs, a whole body cut out against nothing. This one is a painted portrait, cropped close, with the animal filling almost the entire disc. There is no background scene to speak of, only colour behind the fur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practical difference is where the difficulty sits. On the paisley cat the challenge is telling one small repeated motif from another. Here the fur has no motifs at all, only direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat people do with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilders find the face immediately and then stall. The closed eyes, the pink nose and the white muzzle come together quickly and cover a tenth of the board; everything after that is fur, and fur pieces cannot be sorted by colour because the same cream-to-amber gradient runs across the whole animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat works instead is sorting by the direction of the strokes. Pieces where the strands run vertically belong to the chest, diagonal ones to the shoulder, curled ones to the tail and the cloud. Most people arrive at that sort by accident after failing to sort by colour first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe cloud is the easy part\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe violet cloud along the bottom is the one area with closed shapes and hard outlines, and it also forms the base of the silhouette, so it can be built as a strip and set aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAfterwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe raised chin points the composition upward and out of the frame, so the finished piece reads as looking past you rather than at you. Hung low, at seated eye level, that works. Hung high it points at the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe disc is broken along the bottom by the cloud, so the outline is not a clean circle: it stands on a shelf edge better than the fully round designs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creatifwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694980739,"sku":"PC099","price":25.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/Puzzle-en-Bois-Cerf-Chat.jpg?v=1780866789","url":"https:\/\/creatifwood.fr\/en\/products\/zen-cat-wooden-puzzle","provider":"Creatifwood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}