Colouring silicone

For the first attempt at colouring prosthetic pieces the silicone colour looked dull (figure 1) , the first attempt was used by using watercolour face paint and eyeshadow on top, the colour did not build up that well and the colour washed out. This was due to the silicone absorbing the water colouring into the piece. The next attempt was making silicone pigment with house hold silicone, face paint and white spirit, (figure 2) the colour was really streaky and the colour wasn’t vibrant using this technique It has to be applied before applying to the skin, with this technique the wrong silicone was used and this is why it didn’t work out great. With the third trial air brush was used and this technique worked the best the coverage was vibrant and even. The only problem was matching the green to a leaf the finally outcome was effective out of all three. When experimenting for image 4 silicone pigments was used before the silicone was added to the mould, this worked extremely well because you can choose how opaque you want a bit to be and also make some detail stand out, Bray,S (2016) “ These highly concentrated colours are designed to mix well with both condensation and addition cure silicones.” The only downside to using these colouring pigments is that they are expensive when needing a lot of different colours in the long run they can be worth it as Bray,S (2016) “concentrated pigments are usually very good value for money as a little goes a long way.”, using these pigments show the detail in the leaves and while building the colour on the prosthetic the underneath pigment should still be able to bee seen.

References

Bray,S. (2016) colour theory in practise [Internet] Available at: http://www.learnmakeupeffects.com/colour-theory-in-practice [Accessed 28th march 2021]

Figures

Figure 1 Trial of leaf on hand (Gaylor,2021)

Figure 2: Silicone painting (Gaylor,2021)