Coastal Creatures by Charley Harper – 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Pomegranate)

A brown pelican with a fish in its pouch sits above arching mangrove roots, ringed by a great egret, a pink roseate spoonbill, a scarlet ibis, a row of terns and a monarch butterfly, all cut from flat colour on a periwinkle ground. Charley Harper drew it as a poster for The Conservancy in Naples, Florida, in 1983; a manatee's grey face surfaces at the bottom among red crabs.

Harper's hard edges make the birds straightforward, but the periwinkle background is a large flat field with only faint white lines in it. Finished size 46 x 61cm.