For this activity you will need
- Gelatine
- Food coloring
- Modeling putty
- Skin tone make up
- Bruise and FX makeup wheels
- Cotton balls
- Popsicle stick
- Lotion
- ProsAid
- melt down the solid gelatine, about 20 seconds in the microwave.
- stir in about 4 drops of red food coloring and 2 of blue.
- CHECK to make sure that it is not to hot for your model's skin.
- Once it has cooled down take the popsicle stick and spead a layer onto your model's skin. T
- Pulled apart a cotton ball and bloat the gelatine.
- This wall create a texture in the gelatine.
- 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.
- Put the lotion on your hands and pull out the modeling putty
- Start molding the putty around the gelatine
- Apply a layer of ProsAid to your model's skin between each strip of putty
- Once you have your border blend the outer edges down
- Apply 2 thin layers of ProsAid to make the putty stronger
- Add some pink and red to a sponge and blend it onto the putty
- Add some skin tone to the edges of the putty and blend onto your model's skin.
- Add some purple to the inner edge or the putty.
- 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.