Preparing the prosthetic for application; Making pax paint...

The prosthetic piece will have a base coat painted with 'pax paint'. Pax paint is an adhesive based paint it's a blend of pros-aid adhesive and pigments. I made my own, here are some images to show what I did.

 

First using acrylic paint I tested different base shades, mixing colours such as; white, yellow, red and burnt sienna. Once finding a few shades I liked on paper I tested how the shades would look on the piece.

 

Out of the four tones you see above in the image the red and peachy pink would be most suitable as a base. There is a lot of red naturally in the human skin, since the finished piece will be a flesh colour natural tones would be best. I plan to use alcohol activated paints, so the chosen tone was the peachy pink, the other reason for that particular tone to be chosen was in terms of applying makeup peachy tones brighten the complexion which I thought would compliment any further colouring or shading the piece.

 



Now that the tone has been found, its time to produce the pax paint. To the pros-aid I initially added a flesh tone and red acrylic paint but it resulted in looking more pink unlike the chosen tone so to combat this a small amount of burnt sienna was added. Eventually the correct shade was made, I left the shade slightly lighter then I'd want based on knowing acrylic paint dry's darker then when its wet.

In another post I will be talking about how the pax paint will be applied to the piece!