Ebru Technique Soap Challenge

[mazimazi]

I guess everone understood the whole idea of "ebru" a bit differentlly. For me, it was really about making circles and then transforming them into something else (flowers, leafs) using a skewer. Just painting with a squeezy bottle isn't really ebru, since when painting on water every tiny drop of oil color becomes a circle. And then it is up to the artists skill to change them into a different painting.

 

[Saponista]

I really tried to do what I envisioned as proper ebru too, but as mentioned there are a lot of entries with no ebru influence and no inspiration pictures. I bet that will simply be glossed over.

I love your entry newbie, the hummingbird is beautiful. I still can't comment on it though. I would have said something nice if I could.

I also saw Robert wu's work. I loved those purple flowers he did they are stunning.

Lionprincess I also love your dragon. Love the texture of his scales and the colour scheme really fits the design.

Well done everyone who has entered so far. There is some stiff competition!

 

[Sonya-m]

I guess those of us that feel people haven't followed the guidelines will simply show this by the way we vote.

There always seems to be an issue with a number of folk not following

I'm worried now that my tree isn't allowed because the branches are straight - but I did drop blobs of soap then use my skewer to drag into the shapes and my flowers are definitely ebru

 

[Saponista]

In my personal opinion your design is still ebru sonya.

 

[mintle]

I guess those of us that feel people haven't followed the guidelines will simply show this by the way we vote.

There always seems to be an issue with a number of folk not following

I'm worried now that my tree isn't allowed because the branches are straight - but I did drop blobs of soap then use my skewer to drag into the shapes and my flowers are definitely ebru

I am also sure yours is ebru inspired, I have seen plant stems in the original paper marbling so why not branches?

 

[galaxyMLP]

I submitted!! I even mention SMF in my blog post... lol. I am #*. You can see my inspiration there even though my soap came out nothing like it. I decided to enter even though I'm not exactly proud of my soap. It looks like a typical swirl even though I tried to mimic ebru. I sure hope that at least when everyone sees my second attempt that they laugh! Everyone has soapy mishaps...


ETA: I'm proud of myself for entering this challenge because I'm really hard on myself. I just didn't want to miss an opportunity to challenge myself though.

ETA 2: *Also, I removed what # I am b/c I saw no one was posting them. I can post it if you guys want to know!

 

[mazimazi]

Sonya, I don't think it is about what is right or what is wrong, it is just different personal interpretation of "ebru inspired". I understood it very litterally, but I also think if you take an ebru technique painting as an inspiration and try to recreate it in soap, obviously you are going to use different techniques than a turkish painting-on-water artist. Soap just behaves differently. I also noticed people took a regular (non-ebru) photo for inspiration and try to recreate using ebru-ish techniques I'm glad everyone did it a bit differently, otherwhise we'd all be probably doing the same design

 

[mazimazi]

ETA 2: *Also, I removed what # I am b/c I saw no one was posting them. I can post it if you guys want to know!

Galaxy, yes, do post! I am #23

 

[galaxyMLP]

Ok then! I'm #54

 

[Saponista]

I worked it out from your pixie barf soap

 

[Sonya-m]

I worked it out from your pixie barf soap

Lol, me too!!

 

[galaxyMLP]

Aww guys! Thanks. [emoji14]

Also, Sonya and Saponista, yours are fantastic! I'm glad I entered even if I cant compete with all of this talent!

 

[newbie]

I'm glad you entered, Galaxy. Everyone is going to enjoy your story, first, and second, you know we all had bombs trying this and tell me we don't love seeing those too! We do. And I know Amy doesn't want this thought of as a competition but truly as a challenge to ourselves, which I will say it always is. Your pixie barf soap is hilarious and your other soaps are pretty, even if not what you wanted.

Saponista, I have mine on a personal FB page, not a business page so even if I have the settings on public, it doesn't allow anyone other than "friends" to comment. I tried the share thing, but then you have to list the people you are allowing to share it. I have no idea how to open it up.

Some of the soaps are closer to ebru than others and you just decide what your criteria are when you vote. The Birch picture is amazing but there are other soaps that use more ebru and more classically ebru, so I am having to think through my own criteria for my votes. What a broad field though!!!

I'm #48.

 

[mintle]

The voting is open and oh oh, I am quite lost whom to choose. So many beautiful things there !

 

[newbie]

I'm stuck too. I cast two votes but now I'm just sitting there staring.

 

[galaxyMLP]

I'm actually 54!! Oops. I fixed it on the other post too

 

[Saponista]

It's not just yours I can't comment on either newbie, lots of other people have the same through fb. I started trying to comment on as many other people's entries as I could as a nice lady called Chris always commented on mine and I really appreciated her encouragement. I am trying hard to decide who to vote for. There are so many that have so much merit for different reasons. This is a really tough one. I've always known which ones I liked best for all the other challenges. I like the birch trees too.

 

[KristaY]

You guys are killing me!!!!! I keep reading all the great explanations but I CAN'T SEE THEM YET!!!! When the vote is done and winners chosen, PLEASE put up your pics so we can all enjoy them!

 

[dibbles]

You guys are killing me!!!!! I keep reading all the great explanations but I CAN'T SEE THEM YET!!!! When the vote is done and winners chosen, PLEASE put up your pics so we can all enjoy them!

What she said!!

 

[newbie]

http://lingocrafts.blogspot.com/2015/06/great-cakes-soapworks-soap-challenge.html

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.382788711913689.1073741831.354501274742433&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/rmrezek/me...104.1073741829.1255520405&type=3&l=f422d0b42c

https://www.pinterest.com/givesyoukarma/smell-the-roses-ebru-soap-challenge-amy-warden/

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=839700622784062&id=518826304871497

http://mysoapart.blogspot.ru/2015_06_01_archive.html

https://www.pinterest.com/HavenlySoaps/ebru-soap-challenge-june-2015/

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=372155959653169&id=187902248078542

https://merrydaysoaps.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/great-cakes-soapworks-challenge-ebru/

http://fivemessybabies.com/2015/06/20/ebru-soap-painting/

http://iloveitsoaps.blogspot.com/p/june-2015-challenge.html

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1110235878990917.1073741829.1098555836825588&type=3

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