Mottling powder paint

Okay, have been dabbling in my mind with these and thought I would share just in case some one wants to try them before I do.

Take on color and put it in an over safe dish, cup or whatever will work. Bake just until it melts, maybe as little as 100F or even maybe just over a candle or open flame in a small pan or tin cup. Then cool it off so it doesn't have a chance to cure much if not at all. Take it out of the dish and smash it up as fine as possible or maybe even a little courser. Will never been the same size as the original powder paint. Mix a small quantity in the base color you want and dip away. Should get the effect of blotches and splatters if my theory is correct. amount of blotches depends on mixture.

Second idea is to take a wax crayon and put lines, marks and whatever else on the jig head after base color is cured. Dip the jig head cold in the next color and see what happens. Powder paint should stick to the wax if I am even close with my thinking. It does stick some in my limitted trials doing it. I imagine it should cause streaks, runs and veins in the jig head but this one will be harder because of the low melting point of wax. There is a product used in ceramic painting that does this very thing but I do not know if it will work at our working temps. There is a high melting point wax that might work better, theoreticaly. I have not cured a head doing this as it hasn't been nice enough to take the toaster oven outside to keep from filling the house with wax vapors.
I haven't even reheated a jig head with the wax and powder paint on it for the same reason.

Those are just a couple ideas I have had that I remember at the moment. If anyone tries them please post pictures of the results or at least tell me my ideas sucked and you won't ever try them again. Thumbs Up