Wound's in makeup - lesson working's

The original affect I tried at the start of the project whilst looking into potential Miss Havisham inspiration ideas. *SPOILER ALERT* most of us know Miss Havisham meets her untimely demise in a fire so I decided to look into how to create a smokey blistered skin look. This off course compared to the others in simple using only eyelash glue and a array of dark eyeshadows and red supra color from kryolan. For a first attempt without any latex this effect for me personally (trying not to make myself sound to modest) was alright; if I had had more time working on my partner I would of loved to of done up to the forearm. Maybe another time.

Just looking at this makes my stomach turn, a little full on with blood maybe but I really enjoyed completing this piece. To start of to form a shape we worked with gelatine which was heated in the microwave then once tested for temperature was applied to the model with a spatula. This process was extremely fast work and it did take a little while for me to work out DONT MIX the gelatine or the air will cool it 100x faster then just leaving it. The finished look is almost like some zombie bite turned infected. I really enjoyed creating this one.

For this wound the shape itself was made before the lesson by my tutor, this lesson was focusing on how to apply and blend the latex edging in the skin. Straight away without being to hard on myself I can see and learn what I did wrong, anyone noticed? well if not Its obvious I haven't cut the latex enough round the edges so the finished look in a little edging especially with the blood emphasising the mistake. Even though that didn't work the best this lesson was great; finding out about wounds and how to apply them correctly is a big learning curve. Also how freely and creatively we can create this wounds to be bloody messes with puss to a older wound with scabby dried blood and a bruised outline. I am so tempted to buy myself some to practice over the summer with. 

A great book to look into wound help and direction is "The makeup artist handbook" by Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall, the book gives in detail how to apply wounds and also create them.