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I know this isn't exactly the pinnacle of artistic quality, but it had an interesting creation process!

This was created using a dye called Para-Red that I synthesized myself in lab as part of a project in an organic chemistry class. After creating the dye, we were given small squares of cloth to put a blob of it onto - in order to turn it in to our professor along with the lab report as proof that we did the experiment correctly.

Well, I wasn't satisfied with just blobbing dye onto the cloth. So I tried actually drawing stuff with the stirring rod. Once my professor saw I was drawing with it, she got unreasonably excited (science majors with artistic talent?! Blasphemy!) and cut out a big square for me to use, and got me a paintbrush. xD The black parts are just sharpie.

Para-red is pretty interesting. It's an azo dye that has two separate components, both of which I synthesized individually in lab. It has a para-nitroaniline part which must be diazotised at ice-cold temperatures with HCl and sodium nitrite, as well as a coupling component created from beta-naphthol. The two compounds are almost colorless when separate, but when added to one another instantly form a very bright, intense red color as a result of the two compounds coupling with a double bond between the nitrogens on the aromatic rings.

This was made by soaking the entire cloth in the coupling component, and then drawing on it with the diazo.

SCIENCE!

Description
I know this isn't exactly the pinnacle of artistic quality, but it had an interesting creation process!

This was created using a dye called Para-Red that I synthesized myself in lab as part of a project in an organic chemistry class. After creating the dye, we were given small squares of cloth to put a blob of it onto - in order to turn it in to our professor along with the lab report as proof that we did the experiment correctly.

Well, I wasn't satisfied with just blobbing dye onto the cloth. So I tried actually drawing stuff with the stirring rod. Once my professor saw I was drawing with it, she got unreasonably excited (science majors with artistic talent?! Blasphemy!) and cut out a big square for me to use, and got me a paintbrush. xD The black parts are just sharpie.

Para-red is pretty interesting. It's an azo dye that has two separate components, both of which I synthesized individually in lab. It has a para-nitroaniline part which must be diazotised at ice-cold temperatures with HCl and sodium nitrite, as well as a coupling component created from beta-naphthol. The two compounds are almost colorless when separate, but when added to one another instantly form a very bright, intense red color as a result of the two compounds coupling with a double bond between the nitrogens on the aromatic rings.

This was made by soaking the entire cloth in the coupling component, and then drawing on it with the diazo.

SCIENCE!