Trying out colour

Our group thought that colour could make the tree more interesting and fun to play with. We decided that spray painting would be the easiest and quickest option. The colours we chose for the trial were bright along with black and silver because we thought that the colours could work well together, or possibly separately. The colours were also supposed to give definition to each piece of mdf so that people could identify the pieces they added to the tree.

After painting the tree and leaving the pieces to dry for a while, we started putting the tree together and realised that the tree looked very juvenile, confused, and not so fun. Mostly, I think, this was because of the bright pink and yellow. The black and silver were less intense and juvenile, so we added them in with the MDF pieces to see if it would be an option to have parts of the tree dark.

We thought that the black pieces stood out and had definition over the other pieces, but we think that this could be more effective to have the tree defined within all of the pieces so that the builders could see what parts were added on and which parts were part of the tree. Up close, the black spray paint looks a bit patchy on top of the mdf, and we thought it would be cool to still have to wood feeling and look, so we thought of using a black stain instead of paint. We will test out staining the tree in the next couple of days