Salt and Ink

I've been told salt does interesting things for textures of watercolor painting. I kept on meaning to experiment with them. When I did earlier in the summer, I think I went overboard on the salt. I make some pretty backgrounds (which I will paint over and post when I get around to it) and also had a lot of salty ink water.

Two weeks went by and I didn't get around to cleaning my rinse bowl for my brushes. One day, I decided to look at it and was pleasantly surprised:

And here's a closeup of the same thing:

I love how the crystals are all sparkly and how the way the water level was evaporated can be clearly seen by the lines in the outer circle. I wanted to share because it's so pretty. Don't you agree?

<3
Hao