Thursday, 20 March 2014

Ebru inspired soaps

If I haven't told you yet, I got bored real easily.. not long before I was obsessed with tiger stripes, all I want to do was make tiger stripes soap! And while doing my usual youtube browsing (for more tiger stripes!), I came across a video about a Turkish painting technique called Ebru. Ebru means paint on water, yes water! It's so amazing, and needless to say, I was smitten!



The technique is definitely can be applied into soap. All you need is a thin batter






You can also do just mica in oil, it will give you a different effect and the colors pop out more


I did simple swirls to begin with as my hands were not the steadiest when doing those lil dots. Actually, there is a lot more you can do with this technique. You can basically paint whatever you want.