Wood blocks dipped, sanded, & painted
I have drilled & added dowels to the blocks of painted wood, gluing the dowels on just one side so that it can be dismantled & the blocks painted individually (as well as together)
Assembled. I have tried something which I think is successful. I cut two of the blocks at a slight angle to give the whole more of a precarious sense of defying gravity. Looking at it as I made it, another idea occurred to me: separating the blocks by a space small enough to neither ruin the congruence of the painting or to see the dowels--giving it a sense of increased precariousness, as if the blocks danced in the air
Now that I am working with two columns of boxes, instead of one, it means
painting the figure from six sides, not four. Or, you might count them as five
sides, since two are continuous--the belly view from above--though it is
painted on two facing columns. But then, I will probably also paint the tops of the
uppermost boxes, something which made little sense when making single column
figures. So it might then be counted as eight sides (or seven!)
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