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Waco, TX – While they may seem quaint and old-fashioned in our modern digital age, jigsaw puzzles remain enormously popular. Better production techniques have led to better puzzles, which have attracted a growing number of enthusiasts. Still, you never stop to consider who is painting the incredibly detailed pictures and capturing the vivid photographs that make for great jigsaw puzzles. Kay Lamb Shannon is a fine artist and founder of Strokes of Perfection. Shannon is known for the striking, almost photographic quality of her work rendered through oil. She is also among the go-to artists for Home Interiors and Scaffa Tornabene in New York, as well as two popular catalogue puzzle companies: Bits and Pieces and Sunout. “Puzzle companies just kept buying my prints to turning them into jigsaw puzzles,” recalls Shannon. “My licenser Elaine Citron and I thought, ‘Why don’t we start creating art for the jigsaw puzzle companies ourselves?’” Painting for puzzle companies is no simple task. Each piece must be a painti