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

Out Of The Marbling Studio

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

Peace & Love,
- Danny