Made the first of my new batch of shellac for ink.

Right now just letting the shellac dissolve in a mix of Ethanol and Acetone.

The next steps will be making the slury of carbon black, dragons blood resin, and some Jojoba oil. Once that is mixed in I’ll effectively have an ink, however I’m going one step further and adding beeswax as a secondary carrier and Neem oil to prevent any funky fungus from fermenting.

The ending color should be a warm black with red tones. Next up will be a deep black and then I’ll start finding some colors in nature to extract.