Prosthetics

Ive been experimenting with mixing different materials in with the latex such as sand, saw-dust and cotton wool. It give very different textures and therefore the colours sit on it differently so some look more gruesome than others depending on the colour pallet.

                                              Cotton Wool                                          Sand

I also tried using saw dust. I had to make the prosthetics off the body on grease proof paper. It would have been  too uncomfortable to wait for it to dry on the skin and as i was also wanting to try one on the face it would be incredibly painful to take it off without the use of spirit gum. I find the spirit um really hard to use as it does not allow the prosthetic to move as naturally and comes up at the edges. Also it does not blend as well into the skin as latex directly applied does. After this attempt on the face I tried using spirit gum and applying latex around the edges of the prosthetic which helps it stick and blends it in much better also the small amount of latex is not as painful to take off.

Also looking back at the pictures I think I used too much colour and in the earlier pieces I did I used less bold colours. I also think the prosthetic itself is too big and chunky, or it at least would have befitted from having latex round the edges to blend it in more.

I've also been practising other types of wound still like this gunshot  although i am finding it hard to get pictures  of what I'm doing with the camera , the pictures are over saturated with colour which is not true to the light that i am making these under. For instance in the image below all the purple can clearly be picked out but this is because the flash has picked it out. I have tried using better cameras but this problem just seems to get worse.