Masked Marvels

I have been branching out with my ebru techniques, but I keep finding myself drawn back to the classic paper masking technique. I guess I just love the way I can overlay colors and play with fun patterns.



These first few designs are inspired by late 60's early 70's Vintage psychedelia. Bold vibrant colors with an Op Art designs cause me to recall some decadent vintage fabric finds.


Vibrant Vintage


Bold contemporary flare

I also threw some Boho style patterns in there too. Like this classic lantern pattern with a forced perspective twist.


Lantern swirls


Boho chic

I loved working with the bold clean lines of this chic arrow pattern.



----Workshops----

I will be hosting a silk marbling workshop at The Loaded Brush on May 13th.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Rounding Up

Hey, It looks like we made it to 2018.

I would just like to catch up on what I had been up to for the last bit of 2017. I've been quite productive.

I had the privilege to make a series of collaborative works with the artist Chelsea Rose(aka: @LucidRose). We made a total of ten pieces on wood panel. Each piece was marbled first, Then Chelsea adorned the ebru art with an original painting of a creature or scene from the world of Lucid Rose


Joint Efforts

We created the ten pieces for the 10th Annual Portland Big 500 Art Show. The Big 500 is a neat show that happens every December. It has 500 local artists contribute art for a massive display that spans three different neighboring galleries.


First come, first serve

The whole show is "cash & carry". Meaning if you want a piece just pull it off the wall and pay for it then take it with you. This first come style creates quite the commotion.

I also held a Silk Marbling workshop at The Loaded Brush in Portland.


Another successful Ebru workshop

Its been a while since holding a silk workshop. I had a blast and we all had some great marbled results. So, I decided to hold another silk marbling workshop this Spring.

----Workshops----

I will be hosting a silk marbling workshop at The Loaded Brush on February 11th.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Shapes of things

Over the Summer months I had time to work on a few marbled art pieces. I put together a medley of patterns to be cut up and used like a stencil to make layers in the marbling.

The designs were mostly patterns built from simple geometric shapes.


A cosmic circle mandala

I really like the circles. I don't use black to often in my work, but in this case it wouldn't be the same without it.


Concentric perspective

Forcing the perspective a bit really makes it feel like the pattern continues beyond the frame.


It keeps going... and going

And some of the pieces reflect the seasonal sunshine.


As above...


...So below

But really I am dreaming about those Portland rain puddles.


and pond ripples.

In Other News

I've started selling prints and t-shirts again at the Portland Saturday Market. A weekly local Art & Craft faire on the Portland waterfront. Stop in and check out stuff first hand if your in the area.

----Workshops----

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at San Clemente Art Supply on September 16th.

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at ASW's Catalyst Gallery on September 17th.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Auspicious Art

I'm back with another screen print and paper marbling mixed media design. The goal this time was to create a beautiful goddess. The Hindu Goddess Lakshmi to be precise.


A sign of auspicious fortune!

The Goddess Lakshmi represents luck, wealth, and beauty. People look to Lakshmi to lead them to both material and spiritual prosperity.




After making the screen print and ebru mixed media pieces I grabbed my stencils and spray paint and made some mixed media pieces of a different variety. I have been enjoying finding ways to include the new transparent spray paints into my art. Since Lakshmi is associated with wealth and gold I used my transparent yellow paint to enhance the design.


marbled birch wood, mixed media


Golden Goddess.

In Other News

----Workshops----

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at San Clemente Art Supply on September 16th.

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at ASW's Catalyst Gallery on September 17th.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Infinite Perspective

Over the years I've made quite a few pieces with repeating geometric patterns. When I'm done with a piece I scan it, and I'll frame it. Then if I want to get any photos of a piece after it is framed I'll have to shoot it from an angle to avoid reflections and glare from the glass. It is those angled photos that inspired these tilted perspective honeycomb designs.


Hive minded

The forced perspective can make the pattern look like it could go on forever.


Infinite perspective


My new studio assistant

In Other News

----Workshops----

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at San Clemente Art Supply on September 16th.

I will be hosting a Turkish paper marbling workshop at ASW's Catalyst Gallery on September 17th.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Overtly Oversized

Earlier in the year I decided to start making my masked patterns on a larger scale. I enlarged my scale up to four times the size with great success. So, I decided to continue on with a few more XL pieces.


large handmade ebru art

I have been using a lot of handmade repeating patterns for my large masking designs.


Cosmic Zen Meditation


Geometric portal



Making another batch of XL marbled art was fun. I will have to make more big guys in the future.

For now I am sorting through some papers and starting a new screen design for an upcoming project.

Thats all for now!
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance?
Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

The Dreamer

I took a small break from large masking projects to work on a new screen print design.

If life is a dream, this is the dreamer. With eyes closed and the third eye open, in a state of enlightened omnipotents.


We are the dream and the dreamers

The design is inspired by Sri Shiva. The Mahadev, Shiva is All and is in all. Shiva is the Tantric Revealer of all that is.


Har Har Mahadev

For this project I decided to do a stencil layer in place of a second screen print layer or second marbling layer. I cut a stencil of the silhouette shape and used to lay down a fill color with spray paint. I would then screen print the design on top of the painted silhouette.

While working on this project I discovered the new Montana 94 transparent spray paint colors. I really like the way they look, and I love that I don't lose the marbling behind the design.


The Revealer

Even more images available on my flickr.

In Other News

----Workshops----

I will be hosting a small workshop at OMSI on September 11th as part of the Portland Mini Maker Faire.

Thats all for now! Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Big Time

I recently decided to try to make my masked patterns on a larger scale. My normal dimensions for masking projects is 8"x 10" or 11"x 14". I have been working in those sizes for years, but the urge to go bigger was ever present. So, I started cutting some big masks, and started a dynamic collection of large ebru art originals.


large hand cut paper mask

The dimensions I'm working with now is 18"x 24". I used to only marble paper this size for my screen print projects. Now I am quite comfortable masking marbled patterns at this size too.


large handmade ebru art


Large triple spiral ebru art

Three of the big ebru pieces are mandalas. With two of them being chakra mandala interpretations. Plus a new large Sri Yantra mandala. I intend to make a chakra mandala for each of the primary seven chakras.


Third Eye Mandala - Ajna Chakra


Root Chakra Mandala - Muladhara Chakra


Large Ebru Art Mandala - Sri Yantra

I'm going to keep working on big pieces. I want to finish up the chakra mandalas, and I have a few patterns in mind for future pieces too.

I really liked cutting on a larger scale. However I will still be making the smaller original sizes too. I love how much detail is packed into to the patterns of the smaller sizes.

In Other News

----Workshops----

There is a paper marbling workshop coming up at the Loaded Brush in Portland, Oregon on August 31st.

*sign-up for workshops in advance at the Loaded Brush.

I will be hosting a small workshop at OMSI on September 11th as part of the Portland Mini Maker Faire.

Thats all for now! Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Masks

I am doing a lot of masking.

I started by drawing up some images. I then turned the drawings I liked in to designs that I could cut out. Then the cut up designs were used as masking while taking the ebru mono-print. The masking is then removed to reveal the final image.


Triple lotus design

The Lotus flower is a symbol of perseverance and enlightenment. The Lotus is a flower that rises out of the mud to bring beauty to the world with its presence and harmony to the mind with its essence.


The lotus is also associated with beauty, fertility, prosperity, spirituality, and eternity

I also created a design with Shiva's Trishula and a sanskrit Shiva prayer.


Om Namah Shivaya

You might notice that two of these pieces have a very fine combed pattern. I recently spoiled myself with a new super fine toothed comb. I don't know how I went so long without it.

In Other News

----Workshops----

There are two paper marbling workshops coming up at the Loaded Brush in Portland, Oregon. One will be on June 26th, and the other on July 6th.

*sign-up for workshops in advance at the Loaded Brush.

Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Narasimha's Reveal

My latest project involved a new handmade screen print design.

I present Narasimha! One of the avatars of the Hindu deity Vishnu.


I'm the avatar, you gotta deal with it.

He sits in strength. Containing the ferocity of a lion. With cunning wisdom and patients, he waits to strike down even the most defiant of demons.


WIP screen from outlines to hand painted.

I choose to hand paint my silkscreens. It is a process that can take a couple weeks to a month to do. This time allows me to really get in touch with the imagery and poor as much energy and intention into the design as I can.

I really like the handmade feel. To me it comes across as much more authentic and timeless.


He waits to strike down even the most defiant of demons.

While the first Narasimha piece had multiple layers of marbling, This one has different techniques added to the process, such as stenciling and a squeegee drag.


In Other News
I was part of large group art show that happened in Portland. The show, "Burning Season 3",  contained a balanced mix of fine art and street art.


My Ganesh piece making its first public appearance.

Local artist from Portland and artist from California and as far as Texas all came together to present a mind blowing event that included a unique blend of mediums and styles, with 2d and 3d art, body painting, an interactive graffiti art section, and live funk and hip hop music.


Stencilled Buddha heads with some good company.

All and all it was quite the show, and I can't wait until the next one.

Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny

Marbling Mexico

I recently made a quick trip into Mexico for a live performance. JW Marriott asked me to perform at the grand opening of their new resort in Los Cabos.


JW Marriott, Los Cabos, Mexico

It was a brand new beachfront resort. There was fancy lighting and live drummers everywhere, while Chelsea Rose and I were doing live marbling on a pair of 8 foot trays for onlookers.


I am a warrior of art or something


Preshow smiles from Chelsea Rose


Blue Stone



I also produced an exclusive line of paper for JW Marriott to mark the occasion. The paper was made available to the guests who were invited to the opening.


Collectors edition

In Other News
----Workshops----

There will be a paper marbling workshop at the Loaded Brush in Portland, Oregon on April 3rd.

*sign-up for workshops in advance at the Loaded Brush.

Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com

Peace & Love,
- Danny