Prop painting

[matthewdu4]

I have this alien lifesize that had a big gap of missing latex near the shin, i recently went through and patched up the big hole there was, I have a before and after picture. Now that I patched the hole and put a new latex skin over it, how can I match the paint to the original? I have not painted much before and would be curious if it would be a difficult match and how I could accurately match the paint to the original paint job? I put a picture of the shin that never tore

 

[JRFerreri]

Color mixing is a skill like anything else. Unfortunately you can't paint latex with just anything because very few things have the elasticity of natural latex rubber (polyisoprene.)

You can buy mask paints from monster makers which is a high-quality maskmaking latex that has been tinted with pigments. This will bond to the surface of your latex rubber and stretch along with it.

Buy a full set of colors, you'll mix them to get the needed color. You might want to practice with inexpensive acrylic craft paint first to build your skills before burning through all of your mask paint trying to get the hang of modifying colors. You want to get a feel for adjusting colors and getting them to do what you want them to do.

Look online for tutorials about color theory since you'll almost certainly have to partially neutralize the colors to dull them down so they aren't so vivid as they are in their pure form.