About Goodfit
Goodfit is a husband & wife owned company based in Colorado. I'm not sure if there's anything specific that makes us stand out, but we're both creatives who love art and design and try to make our puzzles reflective of that. We started our business in 2020 during the COVID pandemic lockdowns.
What do you think makes ‘Mountain Cats’ a standout puzzle in the Goodfit collection? Or What are your favorite aspects about the ‘Mountain Cats’ puzzle?
Mountain Cats is a lot of fun because Miriam is a painter and you can see all of her individual brush strokes and color work throughout the piece. It's what makes the puzzle challenging in some places, but also what makes it unique. Miriam adds a lot more detail to this in our interview on our website!
Is there a story behind choosing this particular artwork for the puzzle?
In Colorado we have a lot of local artisan markets where small business owners set up booths for shoppers to check out. Kind of like a farmer's market but for other items like gifts, candles, home goods, baked goods, clothes, jewelry, etc. After the COVID lockdown mandates were lifted, these types of summer markets started opening again and we were enrolling in them as a small business to sell our puzzles. That's where we met Miriam, a local artist. She would have a beautiful booth set up at many of these markets selling her art prints. After befriending Miriam, we asked her if she would want to work on a puzzle with us and she agreed!
Is there anything you would like to share about working with the artist? https://goodfit.us/blogs/goodfit-artists/dreaming-in-color-with-miriam-dubinsky
Mountain Cats was created in 2020 when Miriam was working as a preschool teacher. Having not painted on canvas for several years, Mountain Cats was one of Miriam’s first paintings as she started diving back into the medium again. “Interestingly enough, it started with a giant mushroom in the background, and I was mostly playing with the color at that point - layering all of this gouache and ink,” she says. “There’s probably over 20 different layers on the painting… but I knew I wanted to create this fun, alpine mountain for the image.” Initially, Miriam didn't plan for there to be cats in the painting: “It took me three months to actually figure out the image. It sat in my home studio and I kept looking at it, and finally I added the cats. For me, it was like this mountain alpine scene, a beautiful place… the cats were so playful and their forms really felt right.
Miriam hopes that when people put Mountain Cats together as a puzzle, they will be able ****to recognize small details that they might not have noticed before. "I hope the literal reconstructing of the image brings more attention to details that may have been lost if they hadn't had so much time to connect with the painting," she says. With several coats and layers of color and ink, you’ll start to pick up nuances in the heaviness of Miriam’s brush strokes, different transparencies in the hues, and underlayers of colors that peek out through the top.
What do you hope puzzlers feel or experience when working on a Goodfit puzzle
When puzzlers put together a Goodfit puzzle, we hope they can connect with the artwork and see details up close that they wouldn't otherwise always notice. We also hope they enjoy the quality of our puzzles and each satisfying click as the puzzle pieces connect!
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