How to Gouge an Arm

Have you ever seen one of those movies when some on have a chunk of skin cut off their arm. Well that's what I'm going to teach you how to do today.

For this activity you will need

1. Gelatine
2. Food coloring
3. Modeling putty
4. Skin tone make up
5. Bruise and FX makeup wheels
6. Cotton balls
7. Popsicle stick
8. Lotion
9. ProsAid

Here are toe steps to create your gouge...

1. melt down the solid gelatine, about 20 seconds in the microwave. 
2. stir in about 4 drops of red food coloring and 2 of blue. 
3. CHECK to make sure that it is not to hot for your model's skin. 
4. Once it has cooled down take the popsicle stick and spead a layer onto your model's skin. T
5. Pulled apart a cotton ball and bloat the gelatine.
• This wall create a texture in the gelatine.
6. Once you are satisfied with your texture amount add another layer of gelatine.
• You can repeat steps 5 and 6 until you are satisfied with the results.
• On the last layer try and spread the edges out as thin as possible.
  

Once satisfied with your gelatine it is time to build up the wound.

1. Put the lotion on your hands and pull out the modeling putty
2. Start molding the putty around the gelatine
• Apply a layer of ProsAid to your model's skin  between each strip of putty
3. Once you have your border blend the outer edges down
4. Apply 2 thin layers of ProsAid to make the putty stronger

Now it's time to make it look real.

1. Add some pink and red to a sponge and blend it onto the putty
2. Add some skin tone to the edges of the putty and blend onto your model's skin.
3. Add some purple to the inner edge or the putty.
4. Take a good last look and use your best judgement to make it look realistic.

Your final result should look something like this.

 For more cool stuff to do with gelatine check out this cool video.
This is also a cool article about making scars and burns.