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
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
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
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
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
I've been working on all sorts of projects lately. A few of them even dragged me out of my marbling studio.
I'm really excited to share the public art installation I did in the Alberta Art District of Portland.
Marbled monolith
I was commissioned by Alberta Art Works to marbleize a working ATM on the corner of Alberta St. and 15th Ave. in Portland, Oregon. I designed a decoupage mosaic gradient concept that would allow me to permanently wrap the machine in handmade marbled paper.
Paper patchwork
The installation took 10 hours, 1.5 quarts of glue, and over 260 individual pieces of original handmade marbled paper to complete.
A closer look
360 coverage
But that's not all.
I also had a live ebru art performance along side a Turkish music band and a bellydancer.
that's three times the Turkish-nes
Local Portland band Ritim Egzotik focuses their effort on Turkish and Persian music. We met a little while back and right away knew we would want to do live performances together. Accompanying Ritim Egzotik was a bellydancer named Henna. We got together for an art show that featured art from different religions from around the world.
It was my first time working along side live music. It was a ton of fun. I hope we get to work together some more.
live ebru
But wait, there's more.
I also held my annual paper marbling workshop for the Portland Mini Maker Faire at OMSI.
DIY
It is always fun hosting workshops at the Maker Faire. I get such a diverse group of kids, adults, and seniors. All of them completely fascinated and eager to learn more.
With all these projects behind me I'm ready to dive back into my work in the studio. Really looking forward to all that marbling time.
In Other News
----Workshops----
I will be hosting an introduction to paper marbling workshop at the Loaded Brush on October 10th.
*sign-up for workshops in advance at the Loaded Brush.
Thats all for now! If you are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru art lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com
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
This winter I took part in a couple group art shows around Portland.
I made all new work to display for both shows. It was a blast working on mediums I don't always work with. The first show required me to work on wood panels for the first time. While the second show demanded vinyl records.
Wood panels at the Portland Big 500
The Portland Big 500 is an annual group show featuring local artist working on identical wood panels. This show happens every year, but this was my first time participating.
I actually really enjoyed working on wood panels. The pieces all came out great. Plus I sold over half the pieces I submitted.
I am definitely going to try doing more work on wood in the future. So keep an eye out for them.
Next was the vinyl show at Future Shock PDX. This was my second time taking part in the all vinyl record art show. But this year I utilized 45s.
marbled and stencilled and on display in Future Shock
The 45s were a fun twist on working with vinyl.
And so was the clock kit.
Unfortunately time slipped right off the wall and broke
Some of the un-sold pieces will be available in my etsy shop if you are interested.
Or are you interested in commissioning custom art, or booking an ebru lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com
I have hit that time of year where I am teaching one workshop after another.
The Loaded Brush, Portland, Oregon
For the last three months I have done at least one event every three weeks. Thats a lot of seats containing new marblers, both amazed and passionate about their new interest. Honestly, I couldn't be happier to share my passion, especially since its been so well received.
ASW's Catalyst Gallery, Orange County, California
I went back to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry for my forth year of the Portland Mini Maker Faire. Its fun introducing wee ones to marbling. At times the kids seems to grasp it better than the adults accompanying them.
We made prints with the Maker cat printed on them.
I do enjoy sharing the technique, but what about the people out of town who can't make it to one of the workshops.
Well, I have been thinking about that for a few months. I came to the conclusion to make a booklet as a start. The booklet details supplies, preparation, pattern design, and printing. You can buy the downloadable booklet here, and the printed booklet here.
The booklet was just the start though. I have also started making detailed video tutorials. The videos are all available on my Patreon.
Here's a sneak peak. Help me make more videos by supporting me on Patreon
Now I can share my how-to marbling workshop experience with people all over the world. And more importantly I can share it for a very accessible price. Because the magic of marbling should be for everyone. For as low as $1 a month you will have access to my marbling prep videos, and $5 a month for access to everything else, including marbling pattern, print effects, and more.
Yeah, I have been on another Geometry kick lately. Lots and lots of triangles.
The fun thing about geometry kicks is all the cool mosaic patterns I can make. I have been using my stencil/masking technique with layers of ebru to create these geo-mosaic patterns.
Nothing can beat Triangleman
Grandiose trinity
Triangles are often associated with creativity, harmony, proportion, manifestation, illumination, and ascension. Plus triangles are inseparable with the number three. Linking triangles to all the great mythos and disciplines of the world.
Three is the birthing of true wisdom
Luminous triangle
In Other News
----Workshops----
There will be a paper marbling workshop at the Loaded Brush in Portland, Oregon on July 28th.
I have my second paper marbling workshop at Art Supply Warehouse's Catalyst Gallery in Orange County, California. This August 22nd, We will be hand marbling paper at basic and advanced levels.
I will be teaching a workshop at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry during the PDX Maker Faire on September 13th.
*sign-up for workshops in advance.
Are you interested in commissioning custom art or booking an ebru lesson, workshop, demo, party, or performance? Contact me at art@dannyebru.com
