Paint job and the Practice Piece

Once the latex had baked in the oven, it should be left in the oven until it is completely cool.
Below are photographs of my first foam latex piece!

As you can see, the edges on them aren't brilliant, and small bits of clay is still stuck to the foam, however this can be seen as a good thing because the second foam piece was much clearer as the first one cleaned out any small bits of clay. This piece was a practise one, so we were allowed to slightly pre-paint these pieces using pax-paint.

Pax paint is made by mixing acrylic paint with prosaide, if regular paint was used the latex would just soak it right up. Although this was a practice I wanted it to be a little bit acceptable just in case my second piece went wrong. 

Above we can see the equiptment I used when it came to painting, I have acrying paints, pros-aide, rubber mask greasepaints, assorted airbrush paints, my airbrush and compressor, various paintbrushes and sponges, a pallet and finally my prosthetic. 

 Although still a bit nervous and apprehensive, i decided to test out potential base colours onto the edge of my appliance, a bright base colour was needed to knock back the bright white contrast of the foam latex, so i tried a few different colour combinations before added the 'skin colour' over the top. 

At first this went well and the skin colour went on (relatively) well 

However I wasn't happy with the pinky tone. I knew I wanted my character to look bird like, but I felt a bit stumped on the paint job. As as we know a scupt can be brilliant but it can fall down pretty hard if the paint job isn't upto very high standards. After this uncertainty I decided to go and seek help from my tutor, I asked for general colour advice as well as picking up my final prosthetic piece (which i had to pre-paint for my final exam, eep!)

After returning home I was about to begin painting my final piece, however I decided to give my practise one last final shot, atleast attempted to give it a dignifited paint job! I knew the colour pallet for my final piece, as well as what colours were going to go where, so on my practise i decided to swap the colours around, as well as use it as an experiment for other things that had crossed my mind in regards to paint. 

And here is my painted practice piece. Although happier, i wasn't keen, i hoped that my final piece paint job would go SO MUCH better, just so i didn't have to rely on this!!