Puzzle Description:

"Baby's First Caress" by Mary Cassatt. Baby holds Mother's chin as she kisses his hand.

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 5, 2011 [SPOILER]

In honor of Mother's Day, this should win. Nobody (but nobody) could paint mothers and children like Mary Cassatt, and I'm bringing beautiful art to the people.
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=8574

great image
line and color logic solves about 90% of this
then i dont know if i logically solved the last little bit (the babys arm) or not without looking ahead more than a couple steps

After line & color logic, I examined C12 and could eliminate all but 2 possibilities for C11 (either of the possibilites for C12 will use a black square in C11, so the remaining squares in C11 are white).

From here I looked at the possibilities for the final black square in the 7 in R29. I eventually figured out it belongs in R6, but it takes about 4 moves to find a contradiction, which is over our standard threshold for "look-ahead," and I wasn't able to find a quicker path to a contradiction for any of the remaining options, so I have marked this as "some guessing." It's possible there was something I overlooked, however.

i got it

look at the black 2 clue in row 24
it will either go in columns 13/14 or columns 14/15 (column 14 already has 3 out of the 4 black pixels filled in)
no matter where that 2 goes (into either column 13 or column 15) the 1 clue in row 26 will also go in that same column
this means you can put a dot in columns 12, 14 (the only one you actually need), and 16
then it solves out with line logic
no guessing

Beautiful picture and sentiment Kristen.

great pic, Kristen,,, was solveable for me

Once color logic is completed on the blue (the last 4 squares are tricky, until you see that the only spot for the blue in R18 is in C15), row 17 solves with a bit of back & forth elimination. Column 20 solves, leaving only one solution for C19. The remaining black solves easily from there.

I think I solved it with line and color logic only.

BTW, Happy Mother's day!

Thanks for a wonderful entry!!!
Happy mother's day everyone!

Beautiful. Thank you Jota!

I used the two-way logic that bugaboo described in #4. Nice puzzle.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

very beautiful image.

Thanks! It took a lot of cropping and fiddling to get a good image in a 30x30.

Kristen, you did a fantastic job with this one. It's really amazing how you captured the essence of the original.

The solve was VERY challenging for me, but quite rewarding too. :-)

congrats Kristen..... perfect time to make this puzzle :)

Congratulations, Kristen. I really thought this one was a First Place puzzle.

Thanks!

Beautiful work!

Thank you, Dianne. :)

My earlier link appears to have a virus attached, so I replaced it with this one: http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=8574

Fun solve. I love that painting but while I saw the baby, I didn't see the hand until I read the story. Tough image to do in so small a puzzle. Good job.

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