Wine ink

[Inked botanicals]

Hi! Yesterday I happened to have some wine leftovers from a dinner, and it wasn't good to drink. So I thoutgh about inksperimenting a bit. The wine alone was too watery and had little color, so I added some gum arabic drops and some grape skin extract (I had that because I use it in some cosmetics!). And oh-my-god, it gave an awesome ink! It has a redish purple color on cream paper, and a cool purple on white paper. And the smell!! Well, it just smells like wine, but I know there are some of you wine-lovers that would understand me 

Have you ever tried wine as an ink?? Do you think it needs some conservative or something? Will it damage my nibs in any way?? So many doubts! I'll keep you posted about how it goes!

Here you have a photo of it, but I will try to post here some more:

https://instagram.com/p/6pjcacrSCx/?taken-by=inked_botanicals

[unscripted]

Ha awesome! I don't have answers to your questions because I have no idea, but it's inspiring and I feel like using all the liquids I can find as ink. Thinking soy sauce...vinegar...

[Ergative]

Wow, I'm impressed! Now, how does it hold up over time? Given that wine stains white blouses indelibly, that suggests to me that it should be pretty color-fast!

[Inked botanicals]

Here it is a photo to see the difference in color writing on cream paper and white paper! Got both papers near a sunny window, let's see how they perform over time!

[tintenfuchs]

That looks beautiful!