Once we painted the boxes we realised that the colour was still fairly light and so they needed a few coats. The yellow boxes came out the best with them only needing two coats however the blue boxes needed three coats. A therapeutic session of painting commenced by the entire group and we were able to paint all the boxes fairly quickly as we were all working on them together.
One of the groups did request that they could get plain white boxes for their display as they believed that the colours may not suit their project. We were a bit skeptical the white wouldn't fit very well at first however once we put them together the white boxes suited fine.
We used three acrylic paints and after a practice airbrush attempt it was obvious we needed to hand paint the boxes either using paintbrushes or rollers. We decided that the brushes were more precise and allowed for more control. We wanted to keep the labels on boxes so it was important to have that control so that no paint would seep through onto the labels. The water based acrylic paint was a good option for the boxes and the final result wasn't disappointing.
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