Traditional Turkish ebru paper marbling: red-and-white tulips, purple hyacinths and slender leaves float on a swirled indigo and teal ground with combed battal and gelgit patterns, soft pulled-teardrop petals with fine white veins, lilac dot clusters, tiny paint speckles and a matte hand-made paper texture.
Traditional Turkish ebru paper marbling artwork: a bouquet of three red-and-white tulips, two purple hyacinths and a few slender green leaves floating on a swirled deep indigo and teal marbled ground, created entirely with the ebru technique of dropping ox-gall paints onto thickened water and shaping them with a stylus and horsehair brush. The tulip petals show the characteristic soft-edged, pulled-teardrop shapes of ebru flowers, with fine white veins dragged through the red; the hyacinths are built from clusters of tiny lilac dots; the background shows classic battal and gelgit combed patterns in indigo, teal, ochre and cream, with organic flowing lines and tiny paint speckles. Slightly irregular, hand-made look, matte paper texture visible, soft natural daylight, viewed straight on as a flat artwork filling the frame, portrait 3:4. No text, no signature, no frame, no people, no hands.
