Elmer's finger paint under epoxy?

Anyone ever try elmer’s finger paint on top of balsa, with an epoxy glass job? If I can’t find my pigment, which seems to be misplaced, I might try this stuff which I had lying around:

It’s water based, so I’m thinking just paint the wood (more as a stain) and let it dry before sealing with epoxy, then glass.

I recently had this board:

end up looking like this:

some of that balsa from the bottom is going to need to be replaced.

Thanks.

Pat

Hey there.

Can’t say I’ve tried those, but I did find a website that tested different alternative pigments/paints and they used tempera paints (the powder) to pigment epoxy and it worked fine, if you have those close at hand.I’ll get the link for you when I get home.