Kate Garrett
Make-up Exploration
Body Painting Techniques.
Blending Aqua Colours together.
Before blending.
Different blending techniques.
Evaluation of blending colours together.
1. Blending with your finger dragging the dark colour into the light.
I found that this technique lifted the paints as you had to wet your finger to blend them, controlling the amount of water need to blend them well enough to mix and too little so not to lift the paint was very hard espeialy going back over the same area. The result it created was patchy, unpleasant and unfinished looking blend of the two colours.
2. Blending with your finger following the join line of the colours.
This way of blending with my fingers worked alot better following the join of the opposing colours, it blended the two colours so the join isn't visable however it hasn't created a colour combination of the two like created with techniques 1 and 4.
3. With a brush dragging the dark into the light.
In my opinion this doesn't look very nice for a smooth blended together look however I think I could achieve a less broken up liney finish by using a wider brush when dragging the colours into each other. I think the brush makes a big difference when doing this technique as demonstrated by Carolyn Cowen in her body painting technique tutorials.
4. Brush dragged across the colours join.
This worked alot better as creating a smooth seamless blended look and there is a hint of the two colours mixed together making the blend look much more asthetically pleasing to the eye. Overall this is my favourtie technique for blending colours together. However my opinion may change when I use it in a design painted onto the body suituation.
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Blending with black and White Grease Paint.
Grease Paints blended before powdering.
Grease Paints blended after being powdered withto corosponding coloured powders.
Evaluation of using grease paints to blend.
I actually really liked working with great paints I found the blended together really well without lifting off the skin, the easiest way to blend these two polar opposite colours was to have spesicifc brushs that were only used for one colour and then one to blend, this stopped the pure white area from becoming unpure and off looking. The white powder also helped to keep the colour strong and uncontaminated as you can see above the difference it has made to the final look.
The downside to these is that I found they did move around alot/transfered onto your hand, clothes, arms alot easier so was a little messier than aqua paints. They also had to be powdered to set them with gives the product a matt finish, so extra products would needed to be used over the top if this isn't the finish you wanted.
Creating sharp edges.
Boxes painted with grease paints.
Boxes once powdered with translucent powder.
Evaluation of creating sharp straight edges.
I found this task very difficult for two reasons. First of all I used a round ended flat brush instead of a flat square brush, because I chose the wrong brush I found it very difficult to create a strong striaght line. Secondly Matching the squares up to each other I either left a tiny amount of skin visiable or I went over onto the square next door. I think this was down to my inexperience at small detail work. When I have painted before I normally focus on the overall impact and effect rather than small fine detail so in the unit I hope to experiment with creating fine, accurate detail. The order in which I drew the sqaures worked well starting with the pink then moving to the purple, blue and orange. I think you can see this as they start off better then get worse as I was running out of time. Creating crisp edges and lines is something I would like to improve upon.
Layering Water based paints over Grease paints.
Aqua colour layered over powdered grease paints.
Evauation of layering water based over grease.
I think the water based paint (light blue) sits really well over the set grease paint, however you can see where the grease isn't compleely set as the aqua apaint is crackling and more transparant, ie. the dark blue square. I think this is a good technique that would be used for adding deatil over the top or as a final touch to a piece apose to using to blend/add layers of colour to a background or large area as you can see from the swirls the paint doesn't stick completely it lifts in some areas therefore not making it suitable for full colour washes over grease paint. I would like to test thi sout though to see the effect it would have on a larger scale not small detail as demonstrated above.