Saffron Water and Saffron Yellow

A&S Project: Saffron Water 2015
1 TBSP boiling water with 6 strands of saffron.

Presented at Hadchester's Caristia III

 Contested by only myself, I won the People's Choice Award.

Using the saffron water as is half and half with Gum Arabic from Michael's it was too pale to see the resulting ink...

...so I added another pinch of saffron to the mixture.  Immediate results were obtained and I hope with more time a yellow ink will result as described by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini.

The paint results are here!