Something of a Maze

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Project Entry by hutch

Balance

December 29, 2025

Tutoring 7

Skill 7

Idea 7

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Taking a step back, I felt something was a bit off and realised it was a matter of balance.

I love the orange, but with orange bushes, it makes the bottom of the setting feel too heavy.

Moving the orange bushes up to be the tree canopies helped, however created a different problem. Sure, it helped balance out the distribution of colour, spreading the burn orange across both the top and bottom of the setting, creating more balance; however, they looked too heavy and needed to be larger, fanning out more, to be better in scale with the trunks of the trees.

The solution was to go back to the tried and tested method of expanding some of the tree branches, thinning them out with rubberised horsehair.

I pulled small flat clumps of horsehair into irregular shapes and gave them a quick spray with brown and grey rattle can primers.

I then attached them to the tree structures in various places to increase the span of the canopies. The existing branches came in handy for securing the pieces.

After that, it was a matter of spraying Water / Mod Podge over the horsehair and sprinkling even more leaf scatter over them.

I secured it all in place with another coat of the glue mix spray.