4970006670: painting the numbers

I finally came up with a new technique for representing the numbers. For awhile I've wanted to put numbers on top of the textures I'm painting; but the numbers really need to be flat, and therefore rigid; in addition, it needs to be doable in a timeframe that will not send me to crazytown. Anyway, after considering a plethora of foams and plastics and combinations thereof, it finally occurred to me: balsa wood.The biggest problem with this method is that balsa wood is happy to break in the east-west direction; so the number 7 kept breaking at its tiny neck. I have one intact and two broken; hoping I can work around that. Now the numbers are getting painted (black). The edges will wind up white, and then they'll be affixed to the painting.