#stenciles

These are my fur experiments using the different faux furs I collected together.  I actually found an old template for these gas masks maquettes I was doing at A Level which helped me come up with the template for the head of fur. I had a few different goes in faux leather and paper to get the correct shape for the head, the most suitable being the white fur which fit my sculpted head perfectly. With this fur, in particular, I painted brown tones of Winsor and Newton ink onto the knitted backing of the fur, watered down, to create a flesh tone seen beneath the fur. This gave the illusion of skin beneath the fur that I really liked. The idea for this originated from prop maker Anthony Platt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8160891/) for whom I met recently and was very helpful in suggesting that I use ink on the fur to dye it, as he had been doing a similar thing for a project he was working on. He told me to paint the ink onto the fur then dab off the excess with a sponge or water down to get less of an intense colour. The picture below is a photo of the inks he used as they were the ones he found to work the best, but I ended up using different ones (Winsor and Newton) as they did the job well and I already owned them.