CombichristGirl wrote:Chewy wrote:
for baking I have a set of paste food colouring. This stuff is insanely powerful & terribly difficult to get out of ones skin (trust me on this!).
I wonder if you might have some success with a combination of paste colouring and your shading work - and/or maybe a water miscible solvent to help carry the colour into the cellular structure? Havent tried it myself & cant speak for anyone's individual level of comfort / safety with flammable/hazardous solvents (you proceed at your own risk, as for me, im a trained professional) but, if it were me - i'd colour up some isopropanol or maybe acetone with some paste colouring & try staining the shaved areas with it. Id expect the areas where the skin is intact to resist colour - and the shaved areas to take at least *some* colour.
Might not be a bad experiment...
good luck
thats what i was going to suggest lol
You know what they say about great minds.
Because i was curious - i did a little experimenting on one of the kins that my daughter dropped [d'oh!] using two different concentrations of royal blue wilton paste food colouring.
The first was relative weak - just a toothpick tip of paste in ~100ml of methyl hydrate (methanol). The second, more intense was done with a knife tip in about 5ml of same.
All I need know is for the patch master to do that smurf pattern i was asking for!
LOL
First solution, the food colour & the result...
I shoudl get a shading tool eventually - used a strawberry huller to gouge it out, doesnt really show the penetration
second solution - much more intense, this shot also shows some of the penetration (if you look closely - about 2mm on average)
Sliver i hacked off after staining with the second solution - shows penetration depth better
I couldnt find any more aggressive solvents here to try - may or may not do a little more experimenting later.
Hope this gives the OP an idea about what they might achieve.
I wonder though what it woudl look like lit up. An experiment for tomorrow night maybe.