Painting techniques | makeupexploration

Cleaning the Foam Latex

citric acid in powder form pure! (into a cup with a little warm warmer- no magic mix ratio - scrub brush, brush the whole mask down then wash it off with water.

soap and water

(won't always get the mould layer off)

product- bond to latex old or new, paint adhesive.

cost airbrush. airbrush it on

pros-aide /adhesion promoter

spraying it on is the idea way to apply it,

but pros-aide will "gum up your airbrush"

You can also just spinge it on, like in the screencap opposite,

but youhave to take care to too applying to much pressure,

and dry out your sculpture, becuase it may crack.

Referencing

shells, reptiles, birds legs, amphibian, taxidermy catalogue

When first start painting your sculpture, you want to go with the form, and block it out wih colour rather than with detail first of all.

"Trying to do justice to the sculpture, the painting is the half of the process that brings the sculpture to life" - Casey Love

Painting poly-urethane.

- one of the hardest materials to paint, "it acts like candle wax and nothing really sticks to it except more urethane and superglue"

can be cleaned with liquitex varnishes. seal over it before painting.

high gloss/ sheen/matte

and are interchaingable, you can mix them to get the desired effect.

Generally, keep the skin matte, and then gloss the eyes, teeth and mouth.

Forumla for rubber cement (not a safe product)

4:1:5

4 parts rubber

1 part pigment

5 parts thinner

napther/bestine

Base Painting with opaque colours

Painting with Rubber Cement

Preparing the Sculpture for Painting

Airbrushes

1 htch trigger gun airbrush. with a flat tip

turn air pressue down- more control in the paint job

airbrush maintenance: never put metal in airbrushes.

In order to make the sculpture look more realistic it should have an element of transluscency to it. You don't want to completely opaque the first layers.

To create this dilute the colour with a little water.

You should lightly base the piece, leave the highlight the natural foam latex colour. This will bring a sense of dimention in there, where the light is going to hit the top surface. will make the paint job 3D.

TIP-

go subtlly, and lightly! Do NOT just put on a whole load of colour at once, build it up in layers.

and let the colour seep into some of the cracks/ crevacis to add to the texture.

Some people start with painting shadows and highlights and then wash over colour. This is a newish technique that came about with more use of photoshop.

After the first paint base layer use a transparent base, to knock back the shineyness

of the foam sculpt. can also tint this with colour for a more matte finish. but do not use opaque base.

Trick- olive green/ green brown will knock back

the pinky orange tone in your flesh colour

mixing flesh tones.

pink

dermatitus tan

blunt trauma

olive green

water / alcohol reducer

SPATTERING

This adds realism to the paint job, and adds the idea of transluscency to the piece.

Use a few tones either side of your base, darker colour underneath and lighter tone on top of base paint. good for freckling/age spots. make it look more realistic.

One trick when Painting foam latex applyances. is take a little baby powder and some water brush our edges onto the foam. dry babay powder edge, when go to apply you have a baby powder edge that can be wiped off. save your edges from paint!

DETAILING

Before the fine details are done, you have to do into all the shadows and highlights and make sure the paint job matches the form of your sculpt. (a bit like contouring)

Veining

For this part of the paint job, a micron airbrush was used because it gives great fine lines, the best one that works is an Iwada brand.

Befor eyou start veining on your piece, always practice to get thin lines on a tissue or board or something first. The best way to practice is to see if you can control your brush and go over the vein multiple times.

What you can do with veining is underpainting. after the veins are painted

on you can go back over it with a wash of the skin colour so it makes it

look transluscent.

MOTTLING

Adds to realism, but is not necessary, but is just a cool monster painting technique, similare to webbing. Good for flesh and brains.

Do not over mottle though. Leave the highlights ie cheekbones clear.

Colours- try and be cohesive, pop out different colours and link them in different sections

SEALING

You can buy various types of sealers but the creatix colour one is cgood. when sealing think about the shiny areas of the sculpt and where you want it matte.

Monster Painting Techniques

Painting Latex with airbrush watercolour

Painting Silicone Techniques

This video tutorial shows how to apply the prosthetic and different techniques to paint silicone with alcohol activated paints such as Skin Illustrator.

Tips of Applying

Trim the inside of the eyes if needed, it gives more comfort to the actor and an easier application.
stick down the brows, (with Pros-aid) vaseline first.
use the nose as a line up guide. stick down from center outwards so there will be nore creases or ai bubbles in the centre of the face.
Sealer-evens out the appliance and the surrounding skin area, and will make the prosthetic easier to apply.

Painting Techniques

For this makeup the artist, lightly sponged the light flesh tone base. (something i havent really tried before, i usually splatter or really lightly brush it on, but i think this technique works well because it eliminates brush strokes and gives a light even layer.)
contour colour, enhances 3D forms and adds life to skin tone, for this makeup the contour colour was a light pink/brown tone, it blends well with the base colour and gives the transluscent feel on the appliance.
The contour colour is worked into all the ridges and depth of the sculpt. the colour looks a little like blood under the skin.
Another way to add transluscency is to add olive greens/greys in t he shadowed and depth areas.
Highlight- stippled on really pale green. - stipple it on the raised prosthetics, do not use pure white for highlight, always an off white tone.
Spatter- start with a warm tone, larger spatter act like skin spots, freckles or aging and adds realism to the paint job, whilst smaller spatter acts like capilleries under the skin. Even with flocking this is still necessary, but may vary depending on how much flock you use.
Use warm and cool tones to splatter.

Painting Prosthetics with makeup and grease paints

Ususally oil and grease based paints are not used on prosthetics, but i guess there are o rules. and for this look a full coverage works better than a transluscent one. and just proves you can do whatever you want.

I really like the edges on this piece.

The artist used Foam latex and blended with Bondo.

Glossary of Terms for Painting

(Special Makeup Effects- Todd Debrecini)

Acrylic- A versitile polymer used in paints, sealers, molds etc.

Airbrush- A small, air-operated tool that sprays various media, including ink and dye but most often paint, by a process of atomization. It is used extensively today for the application of makeup.

Pax Paint- Acryclic mixed with pros-aide adhesive for painting prosthetic appliances.

Rubber Mask Greasepaint- RMGP is makeup for use over foam latex and slush latex appliances. Creates washes of colour by adding a couple of drops of 99% isopropyl alcohol to the makeup and then applying with a sea sponge for dimensional texture.

Sealers- liquids or sprays that are absorbed into porous surfaces to seal against moisture, making the surface essentially no longer porous; they can act as both a seal and a release for some materials. Not all materials need to be sealed or released.

Ratio of Pax Paint

1:1

50% Acrylic Paint, 50% Pros-aide.

Pax Paint

PAX PAINT AND PAX MEDIUM

PAX Paint has been around for quite a while and is essentially Pros-aide and artist Acrylic Paint; it can be used directly on the sin but is best used for painting appliances prior to application. Use good judgement regarding use on some ones skin. to make your own opaqye, flexible PAX paint, mix Pros-aide and some acrylic paint (eg, Liquitex) 1:1. Because it is a mixture of acrylic paint and a strong prosthetic adhesive, it can be somewhat stubborn to remove, so be careful about using it near sensitive areas of the skin, such as around the eyes. PAX paint can be altered and modified for considerable versitility by doing one or more of the following:

Information about Pax PAint from Todd debrecini's book - Special Makeup Effects:

Matte Medium

Increases fluidity and reduces sheen

Mix Acrylic matte medium with Pros-aide to create what is called PAX Medium, a Liquid that dries clear and somewhat flat. When PAX Medium is added to PAX Paint in varying amounts, it creates varying layers of transparent colour that will aid in creating more realistic skin colouration.

Add distilled water to make a thinner, more transparent paint. Thinning can be by as much as 24:1 (24 Parts water to 1 part PAX paint). A mixture with this thickness becomes a wash that can add very subtle colour tints.
Thinned PAX Medium can be used as a makeup sealer.
Adding additional Pros-aide (i.e, 2:1) will make the paint stick better, but will be harder to removem less adhesive will make a weaker bond and be easier to remove.
Makeup can be applied over PAX paint; in fact, just about anything (except acetone) can be applied to PAX.

Whether you use PAX Paint, PAX Medium, or both, it dries with a bit of a shine and remains a bit tacky to the touch. It is a good idea to powder with a transluscent setting powder.

Interesting Points to note:

PAX was developed by Dick Smith.
with the intent to be an extremely opaque and lasting makeup.
It can be painted on, or airbrushed if thinned properly.
nit is non-toxic but not FDA approved, for use on skin it needst o be pigmented with FDA approved colours.
ADM Tronics now produce a special Pros-aide for mixing up PAX with removes the final surface tackiness.

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Paasche H

known as the AK-47 of airbrushes because it is extremely durable.

Good for spattering because you can overload the tip with paint, and bring down the air pressure really low to create this paint texture.

Rubber tubing/ colour cup to keep paint from spilling when airbrishes don't have caps. raises the pressure of the paint. aids with spattering and different techniques.

After trying bodypainting in class i felt that this is something i wanted to explore further, however i am really interested in prosthetics so to continue this in my exploration i want to explore different ways to paint prosthetics, especially with different methods, such as airbrushing and using different paints such as skin illustrators and PAX painting.

Another way i wanted to explore paint was because of the design of my creature. it is a water based creature therefore i hoped to explore more about how i would potentially keep my makeup waterproof.

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Above is the final outcome of the paint job, although it isnt the same as what i am painting, some of the techniques are very useful to me and can be translated onto foam latex or silicone prosthetics. I especially think that the information about making something look transluscent will be beneficial.

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