Even on the outside of the body blood can be seen in different colours, we can see the blood looking a blue colour which is the blood running through the veins and some times we can see it looking red which it the blood flowing through an artery.
Blood flows through the body as we all know, we have veins which transports blood around the body back to the heart to refill with oxygen and arteries transport that blood with oxygen in it around the body!
It sounds very simple but this is what changes the colour of blood when it leaves the body too.
This picture shows where the veins (blue) and arteries (red) are in the body coming from the heart -
When we bleed from a vein we dont have any oxygen in that blood as it has laready been transported around the body. This is why the blood goes "blue" or dark red when leaves the body! It leaves the body ina normal flow, might be fast might be slow but it will still leave the body as the skin has been opened.
When we bleed from an artery it has a lot of oxygen in the blood, as it is tranposrting that around the body, this is why the blood comes out really red when the skin is broken! It doesnt flow in a normal way either some times it spurts out in pulses too, when the blood leaves the body though it starts to oxygenate and get darker too.
I find it really interesting how the body works and how we are all different yet we are all the same on the inside too! We have veins and arteries all over the body as blood is transported to and from the heart from all around the body.
Blood Products
On the Kryolan website you can purchase lots of different coloured bloods and they have different textures about them too depending on what you are going to use the blood for.
The first one I found was called Special Blood IEW, its easy to use, can be washed out and used on any type of materiel, it is used for theatre, film and television too. You can use it in and around the mouth too which is brilliant! This blood flows slowly though so appears really realistic on simulated fresh wounds. You can purchase this blood in two different shades dark or light so you will have the right colour blood for what ever wound it is and I bet you could probably mix both the colours together, they are available in two different size bottles too!
The next one I found is called Transparent Blood, its it said to be highly versatile in its use in film and television, the way it looks on screen gives the perfect image of real blood. It is available in two colours too a dark and a light one, it seems to be a good product to use! They are available in two different sized bottles too.
F/X blood isn't a runny blood so it dries on the skin but doesn't stain it, it comes in liquid form and dries to be smudge proof too. It still has a sheen on the skin so it gives a good impression that its a fresh wound too.
In a cut or fresh wound you can also fill it with Wound Filler, its in a jelly consistency and you place it in to the cut or wound to make it look more gory and gross! I like this product as it really does have a good effect on the wound to make it look realistic. As it's a jelly it gives a shine to it too which makes it look fresh!
As well as bloods that you would put in a wound, you can get a blood which is called Fresh Scratch, comes in two different colours, doesn't die the skin and dries to look like perfect scratches or scabs. When its drying you can't touch it or it will create matt spots in the blood. The dark colour is good for creating scabs and the light colour is good for creating fresh wounds as it keeps its shine it makes the wound still look fresh.
As well as these products there are soo many different companies and products out there which are available too these are just a few and a few that I would possibly use in the future also.
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