Silicone Painting with Tim Gore

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Save some base colour for patching - e.g seams.

Encapsulated - baldiez. Vinyl coating.

Take container lids of skin samples. Keep formula for colours. Different tones for different ethnicity.

Caulking Gun - caulking works on tin or platinum. Platinum is more delicate in its liquid form - easily contaminated.

Base tone should always be neutral, Gore states that even if he was doing a red devil make up, he would still intrinsically paint it a neutral skin colour. pale.

burnt siennablue & orange - if used too harshly can ruin. Blue can turn into a grey mess and orange could turn too tanned.

Gore uses white & burnt umber for a base to

Only colours that he will mix. find this suprising as thought it was best to avoid colours such as black and white.

Paint mixer - cocktail mixer. help speed process.

Tim keeps his brush hair long so it 'slings big sloppy bits of paint, as we are going to layer in random sizes.' trimming bristles tends to unify the colour - peppery short

Will start to see big, small splatters. beauty of long hair. go all along the face with same colour. breaking up the base tone. WHITE, BLUE,

Almost a bit too blue. doesnt change brush, just wipes it each time.

brushes down splatters. takes off excess?

GREEN

Areas that you want less colour - highlights - under eyebrows. bridge of nose.

VIOLET

Blending out the purple with another brush.

YELLOW

Yellow and violet are going to warm it up and give tan colour
ORANGE BURNT SIENNA

European caucasion skin - more blue to cool down less orange/yellow warm

Gore always uses the same routine of colours for a basic causcasion paint job. but he then adds colours.

Reds - thin and 'bleedy' so when it hits its not speckly its runny.

peppering in colours

Purple and greens under the eyes

NATURAL SPONGE

slightly rounded flat brushsea sponge - to dab on silicone and remove some. use cotton bud - skin in blotchy. dont wanna uniform ness.

neville page

Single action external mix - paint is mixed on external f airbrush

Too much paint on a low pressure - plasti thing invneted by Kazu - spattering