Burns and sweat

Burns
Gelglyk, Gelatine or Gelafix block can be used to create burns effect. Gelglyk is made from Gelatine and is easy to heat up, apply and remove from the skin. Gelatine are being used in fashion, tv or film and it can be applied to hair as well. You can mixed it with glitter and also colours, etc. If people got latex allergy, you can used gelatin instead. Non-flexible collodion can be used with gelatine to create shiny, burn effects.

Equipments:

• Cotton buds
• A palette knife
• A spatula
• A sponge
• Kryolan Gelafix Haut -Gelafix skin
• A puff
• Black stipple sponge
• Loose powder
• Supracolor palette
• Foundation palette
• Water
• 2 bowls (one for the warm water, the other for gelafix)

1) Melt the gelafix- Put the gelafix into a bowl and microwave it. Check every 10 seconds and make sure it melts.
2) Make sure the gelafix is not too hot and apply it to the back of your hand first to test before you apply it to your model.
3) Apply the gelafix onto the area you want to create the burn with a palette knife. After it is dry, you can use the palette knife or a pin and lift up some parts of it to create holes.
4) Get some warm water and use a cotton bud to smoothen down the edges of the gelafix that has already applied to the skin and this will make the scar look more realistic.
5) Powder the surface of the gelafix with loose powder.
6) Now, you can stipple colours onto the gelafix and decorated on it to make it looks like real burns.
7) Use a sponge and stipple the foundation on top of the gelafix and this will matches more the skin tone.
8) You can use a stipple sponge to stipple blood, glycerin to give shiny and wetness effects, add pus or wound filler to give more texture to the burn.

• Old age stipple or latex with tissue paper can also creates burn effects as well.

Sweat
1) You can use glycerin to create sweat effects.

Thoughts about the lesson:
In order to improve next time, I can add more colour and tones to the burn and also texture like wound filler or pus to make it look more realistic. I can also make the build up more colours and make the stronger as you can see the colours are quite soft on the camera.