Alchemical Symbols - Collected Inverted

Alchemical Symbols, hand inked, for print: www.redbubble.com/shop/wetdryv…

Let's start this way: I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into when I agreed to this project. I was expecting earth, air, fire, water, and a basic set of elements. Instead, while there's some variance across different reference sets, there seem to be a fairly consistent 280 symbols. Which took eight days to ink. Which took a day of drying per day of inking. Which took a day of scanning and editing at 11"x17" at 600 DPI. Five days uploading just the inverted set to the print provider. Another five coming up for the non-inverted set. Let's just say the client got their trade's worth on this one, and I'm very glad to be able to provide prints and shirts and whatnot to the rest of the world because pay in trade rocks, but pay in cash keeps me fed.

Holy pants. Half a month on this.

Learned a lot, had a lot of fun, and got weird Abramalin the Mage dreams to boot.

Couple of other places, got asked for meanings. Bit of a wall of text, but here we go:

Starting at top, each row left to right: 

1) Aquaregia, Glass, Air, Air, Alcohol, Alcohol, Alkali, Alum, Alum, Alum, Aluminum, Amalgam, Amalgam, Amalgamation, Ammonia, Anneal, Antimony 

2) Antimony, Antimony, Aqua, Aquafortis, Aquafortis, Aquavitae, Aquavitae, Arsenic, Arsenic, Arsenic Sulphur, Arsenic, Arsenic, Autumn, Bee’s Wax or Beeswax, Bistmuth, Bistmuth, Borax

3) Borax, Borax, Boron, Brass, Brimstone, Burned Alum, Burned Hawthorne, Calcined Gold, Chalk, Cinder, Cinnebar, Clay, Clay, Cobalt, Compose, Copper Acetate, Copper Five

4) Copper Four, Copper, Copper, Copper Splints, Copper Splints Variant, Copper Splints, Copper Three, Copper, Corpuscle Variant, Corpuscle, Cribbled Ashes Variant, Cribbled Ashes, Crucible Variant, Crucible, Crystal Variant, Crystal , Crystal Varniant

5) Crystal, Day Night, Day Variant, Day, Day Variant, Day, Decompose, Decompose, Distill, Distill, Distilled Vinegar, Distilled Vinegar, Dram, Earth, Earth, Egg Shells Egshells, Element

6) Equal Amount, Ferment, Filter, Fire, Fumes, Ginger, Glass Dropper, Glass, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold Foil, Gold, Gold, Gold Litharge, Gold

7) Gold, Gold Saffron, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold Trinkbar, Gold, Gold, Gravel, Gravel, Grille, Hematite, Honey, Hour, Iron Filings

8) Iron, Iron, Iron Rust, Iron, Iron, Iron Vitriol, Lapis Lazuli, Lead, Lead, Lead, Lead, Lead, Lead, Lead, Lime, Lye, Magnesia

9) Magnesium, Magnesium, Magnesium, Magnesium, Magnesium, Magnet, Manure, Melting, Mercurius, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Month, Neptunus

10) Nickel, Night, Nightflower Night Flower, Nitre Oil Nitreoil, Nitric Acid, Oil Essence, Oil of Vitriol, Oil, Oil, Oil, One Dram, One Ounce, One Pinch, One Pint, One Pound, One Scruple, Ounce

11) Pewter, Phosphorous, Phosphorous, Phosphorous, Pinch, Pint, Platinum, Platinum, Pluto, Potash, Potassium, Potassium, Potassium, Pound, Powder, Precipitate, Pulverize

12) Purification, Quicksilver, Receiver, Red Arsenic, Red Arsenic, Red Lead, Retort, Retort, Rock Salt, Rock Salt, Rosin, Salammoniac, Salt, Salt Peter Saltpeter, Salt, Salt, Saturnus

13) Scorpio, Scruple, Scull Skull, Sea Salt, Sediment, Silicon, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver Spirit, Silver, Silver

14) Silver, Soapstone Soap Stone, Soapstone Soap Stone, Soapstone Soap Stone, Sol Sun, Soot, Spirit of Mercury, Spirit of Tin, Spirit, Spring, Steel, Still, Stone, Sublimation, Sublimation, Sugar, Sugar

15) Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphur, Sulphuric Acid, Summer, Take, Tartar, Tartar, Terra, Tin

16) Tin, Tin, Tin, Tin, Torrefaction of Silver, Uranus, Urine, Vapour Bath, Verdogris, Vinegar, Vitriol, Vitriol, Vitriol, Water, Water, Wax, Wax

17) Week, White Arsenic, White Arsenic, Wick, Wine Spirit, Winter, Wood, Year, Yellow Arsenic, Yellow Arsenic, Yields, Zinc, Zinc, Zinc, Zinc, Zinc