The production of the "trees"..or not, as it turned out.

 When beginning to sculpt my trees, i began by making the bathtubs. I found a technical drawing of a traditional rolltop bath (thank you bathstore!) and scaled it down roughly to 1:25, building the shell of the bath around a moulded ball of tin foil (genius!) I didn't craft them as well as maybe would have been expected, partly because damn, sculpey isn't as easy to work with as you may think! and secondly because I didn't want them to be perfect. They're baths with trees growing out of them, so I made the assumption, based on my own designs, that the baths would be extremely worn and dirty, possibly falling apart, therefore it seemed pointless to craft them as perfect little ceramic tubs.

When I started to craft the tree sections, I stumbled upon a problem of sorts. I had no support system, and the sculpey really doesn't hold it's weight very well when it is soft. This led to the "in the moment" design decision to make the bathtubs contain smaller, more bush like formations that could sit alongside taller, more graceful trees, in order to give a little more variety to the stage.

I made 3 of these bathtub bushes, of varying design and height, and painted them in 3 seperate colour schemes: oranges and reds, blues and greens, and a combination of greens and oranges.