Your work is fantastic! I have been following your progress for a while. I am impressed with your creativity and the uses you make of a gel press. I look forward to seeing what’s next. Keep them coming eventually you will be noticed. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love this, Mark! You are inspiring me to unpack my Gelli again. BTW when I started watching you edit the photo, I thought you were going to make the black, the grey, and the white three different color plates a la Warhol. That would be cool too, though I think the black only with halftone works perfectly with the collage composition. Your art is great, thanks for sharing.
I am so enjoying watching your experiments and techniques. But I think you have missed out on one of my favorites: transferring with graphite. Make a drawing with a soft graphite (9B works really well). Place the drawing directly onto the gel plate (no ink, no paint). The gel plate will pull some of the graphite onto the plate. Add paint/ink and pull the print as normal. Works great. Would work with your excellent drawings.
Sir, I just wanted to thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and discoveries with us. You singlehandedly are responsible for me going deeper in my own exploration of the gel plate’s capabilities. The result are mind boggling and have completely revolutionized how I work. While some with more experience may not agree, I believe you are on the brink of ushering gel plate printing into the realm of fine art and I’m here for it. Thank you again. I look forward to seeing more.
Thank you soooooo much for teaching your techniques. I will teach them too in my workshops here in Bangkok. You colour choices and combination are vibrant.
Hi Mark, I admire your patience with the cutting. Your pictures are beautiful again. I can see the fun you are having and hope that you will come up with many more ideas:) I love the way you have designed your sketchbook:) I would love to take a look at it. Maybe you could make a video on how you design a sketchbook. Creative greetings, Gabi :)
I just found your channel, and I can't stop watching your videos. You are amazing with the gel plate. You have taught me so much. Thank you for sharing your experience, creativity, and time.
Thanks Mark, found your channel by accident as I wanted to experiment with decollage techniques. So many helpful hints and easy to understand advice, really inspirational and I've only watched two videos! Need to go and create now! Have subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks again.
Hey Yeatester :) You are undoubtedly the master artist with gel plate and stencils and overall creativity and all of us enjoy your teachings so much. I stumbled upon something called kitchen lithography and loved the idea. Whenever you are finished exploring your current projects, maybe teach us another way to print. I know you will rock our socks off. Thank you :)
Hi there, just looked up kitchen lithography. Looks fascinating and I will certainly give it a go. I have some oil based commercial printing ink which I think will go a bit too thick with talcum powder. I'll have a play and let you know how I get on in a future video : )
This evening I enjoyed your 3 new videos and admire your patient cutting out all the details in your stencils. Good tip your dots for registration and your Photoshop tips. Love the combination of collage and transfer. Again fantastic results - you seam to be a gelplate-magician. Thanks for the lot of work you must have done creating these 3 videos and thanks again for sharing them with us.
I really enjoyed her last videos. Fantastic work. Every time I admire your selection of colors and the necessary advance planning to create such ingenious works. Thanks for sharing Brygida x
Hi Brygida, glad you enjoyed and great to see you doing some gel plate on your channel too - love how your palette and textures come through in all the techniques you explore : )
@@yeatesmakes I love the gel plate. I want to try to print on large canvas. I also love the Pebeo colors, thanks for this tip. I am glad that I know your channel. Your videos and artworks are the best I know.
A real beauty. I realise, watching this video, that I probably always go for a LOT of contrast in my colors. Like the ton sur ton much more,. And the way you worked the image of the can in procreate made it much more interesting than a "normal" imagetransfer. Thank you, you're a star !
Hi marijke, thanks, as ever, for your encouraging comments. lovely reading the different aspects and perspectives people take away from vids. I think the halftone filter is really useful for gel plate but there are loads of cool textured brushes on Procreate too that I have yet to explore for image transfer.
Love love love this. Thank you for this great tutorial. Will need to look back for another half tone vid - the procreate and photoshop steps a bit much for me. But do so like this. 🧡
Hello, fantastic creations ... 😃😃😃👍 could tou tell me please what Laser Printer do you use? Because the one I'm using doesnt works and all the transfers are empty. Thanks 😉
Great video. I have learned so much from your videos and plan to use many of the techniques for kids camps i teach this summer. Keep the excellent videos coming. Cheers!
Thank you, Mark, for sharing your creative process. Your work is amazing and I'm finding these printmaking videos to be good tutorials and jumping off points for my own gel plate prints. I will surely explore (and be inspired by) your other techniques and processes as well. Well done! and I look forward to your next creative endeavors.
I’ve only recently found your channel and you’re blowing my mind with the gel plate’s potential. Would you mind sharing what type of laser printer you use?
First - I LOVE you!! Second - get an affiliate link and let me know what brayer that is :-) Rather you get a few pennies when I buy it. Thanks for all you do - as a collage artist, I can FINALLY see a purpose for the Gelli plate I bought like...a hundred years ago!
Thanks for the love! the brayer is made by Esdee. Not sure I'm the person to go chasing affilate links and sponsors and what not, getting ary shots of equipment and banging on about this and that would drive me nuts!!! If Honda want to sponsor me to motorbike across Asia then I am all ears !!! : ) crack the gelli from the packet x
I admire your patience with the stencil. I am interested in stencils in case you do a video. Though the technique with pen and the gplate is fantastic. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Great Video with Procreate. I am very interesting in Procrate with gelliplate, because Procreate is not so expensive than Photoshop. You donˋt must buy this every month. Super pop picture, very cool.
Just getting started with Gel plates. Your X-acto cutting stresses me out. Only because I now use a cutting machine. You are a TRUE artist and one of the best out there. Curious how we can sell art w/copy? Where do we draw the line with copyrights?
Hi Tammy, thanks for the lovely encouraging comment. Not sure about the copyrights as I tend to only use my own imagery. where i use collage material, it is almost always text and I can't see a problem with that. What specifically where you worried about?
This might be my all time favorite of your many prints! What type of paper did you use? You said 300 gsm smooth paper, is it vellum bristol or printing paper or what? I just broke down and bought a big laser printer so i can start trying your image transfer techniques!! Thanks again Mark!!
Loved seeing this process! So many steps and layers, it would be impossible to give one single technique if asked, 'How did you create this?' Wonderful piece!
I love your work and your creativity. This is excellent. You give inspiration to so many people. Please csn you just explain me why and when you use the gel medium? I am sure you explained it in another video already, but don't know where to find. Thank you
hey Katrin. thanks so much for the lovely comment, it means a lot. I use gel medium (which is transparent) when I am transferring an image onto a background. if i had used say, white paint, to transfer here, it would have covered my background and undone all that work
You are such an innovator in this space of art! Love your videos. I’m just starting out and I’m having the hardest time getting a clean and clear laser print transfer … I’ve read that a color printed b/w laser print works better because of the build up of toner, is there any validity to that? My HP laser jet pro is just not layering the toner even after running the print through 3 sometimes 4 times. Any advice?
Can you use new newspapers for the transfer or do they specifically need to be old? I didn’t know if that made a difference when I want to transfer an image to a plate if the ink coverage was different on old newspapers, Thank you.
When you worked with the corrugated cardboard you took the print from the gel plate but couldn't you have used the paint on the actual cardboard as a stamp instead? That's awesome! I've never seen a gel plate used in this way. So many possibilities! 🙂
Hi Sage, absolutely would work either way. pressing the card in to the plate means you get a smoother texture which ultimatley makes the print a bit easier to pull. not a lot in it though!
How long did you let the bent can image dry on the gel plate before you added the acrylic gel medium? And once you have placed the image and plate on the paper, how long should it stay there before you peel it away?
Hi there. It was a warm day so I only left the can image 2 or 3 minutes to dry. Once gel medium was applied and then aligned onto paper, I left it for about 10 minutes to make sure it was totally dry.
Thank you so much! Out of all the videos I've watched yours is the BEST! In my head, I've made up a story about you. I think you are an art professor in printmaking? Anyhow, I digress. I was watching your techniques with Gelli Plates because I am preparing for a gallery show. I have primarily worked in digital media but wanted to switch things up a bit. I made my own Gelli plate from gelatin & glycerine with supplies I bought off amazon. I never managed to get a good image transfer from my homemade plate & ink jet print. I'm learning that most people use laser prints or photocopy prints, do you know what the science is on this? I could get the image to transfer to the plate but never could get it to pull off. :/. I finally invested in the commercial Gelli Plate :/. It's too late for my show, but I wanted to experience the difference first hand...even if only from a magazine. Keep making videos, it's refreshing to see them as they are well edited & the sound it good. I have an MFA in Art & Technology so I'm a stickler about that stuff. :)
Hi Cynthia, such a heart warming message! Thank you. The sceince (I think!!!!) on laser copy transfer is that the ink is oil based and therefore resists the water based acrylic while it is wet on the plate. Hopefully you can explore the gel plate and incorporate it into future work and shows - best of luck : )
Tip I got from Linda Germain--if you spray the corrugated paper with water and wait a minute, the top paper layer will come off fairly easily!
Great tip!
I love how you push the materials and take the gelli plate to the next level. I can't wait to try your technique! 🤩
Hope you make it work : )
Five stars, again! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
: )
That *"J"* and perfect little rectangle underneath it, on the left, is a nice little random touch. * chef's kiss *
I am inspired, thanks for being so gracious to share
Your resulting art work is so vibrant and just fun looking. It’s colorful but vintage, grungy but pop-y. Just fantastic.
: ) cheers, glad you enjoyed
Thanks! I enjoyed all 3 videos! This last one is my favourite, probably because of the pops of colour! 😍😀
: ) thanks for watching and commenting Chrissie
You're just a Master at this, Mark. Another fabulous instructional video.
Really kind, thank you. Glad you enjoyed the vid - it was actually really fun to make!
Wow! Amazing 😊 Many thanks again 😊
: ) cheers Sandie
Beautiful piece, great design and wonderful colours. Thank you Mark!
Cheers Mieke, was a fun one to make : )
Your work is fantastic! I have been following your progress for a while. I am impressed with your creativity and the uses you make of a gel press. I look forward to seeing what’s next. Keep them coming eventually you will be noticed. Thanks for the inspiration.
Cheers Patricia, glad the cideos are useful : )
AMAZING ART 👏 👏
You are really very good with gelli prints...
What a fun video! A wonderful diversion on a hot Saturday afternoon. Well done!
Cheers Mary, hope you continued your diversion and got the art stuff out : )
These are so helpful and interesting 😊
Your work is amazing!
Great work...
Thank you for sharing!
Love watching you work!
Glad you enjoyed it : )
Very cool techniques! TY for the education . . .
Amazing.
Incredible!
I love this, Mark! You are inspiring me to unpack my Gelli again. BTW when I started watching you edit the photo, I thought you were going to make the black, the grey, and the white three different color plates a la Warhol. That would be cool too, though I think the black only with halftone works perfectly with the collage composition. Your art is great, thanks for sharing.
Brilliant - Thks for sharing the process
Thank you for providing technical information in a logical sequence while making very cool artwork 💥
I am so enjoying watching your experiments and techniques. But I think you have missed out on one of my favorites: transferring with graphite. Make a drawing with a soft graphite (9B works really well). Place the drawing directly onto the gel plate (no ink, no paint). The gel plate will pull some of the graphite onto the plate. Add paint/ink and pull the print as normal. Works great. Would work with your excellent drawings.
I agree, looks great BUT I've had trouble getting it completely off the plate after!!!!! Any suggestions?
Excelente! 😊
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing thank you
Anita x
SUPERB!!!!!!!Thx
So creative thank you.
You are a master of transfer and well executed processes. Another enjoyable watch.
: ) thanks Chris
So amazing. Good the gel medium protected that old news print from sticking to the plate. Love your work!
I like it ! Woow
Thank you for all those inspiring videos.
Thank you Sabine, for kind words and support : ) Pleased you find vids inspiring
My favorite gelli print ever!!!!!!!
: )
So good
Magical!
Lol! Cheers
Sir, I just wanted to thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and discoveries with us. You singlehandedly are responsible for me going deeper in my own exploration of the gel plate’s capabilities. The result are mind boggling and have completely revolutionized how I work. While some with more experience may not agree, I believe you are on the brink of ushering gel plate printing into the realm of fine art and I’m here for it. Thank you again. I look forward to seeing more.
A really 4kind and thoughtful message, thank you ; ) Really pleased you are getting some useful tips from the channel
Thank you soooooo much for teaching your techniques. I will teach them too in my workshops here in Bangkok. You colour choices and combination are vibrant.
Love!
: )
Absolutely Brilliant👌‼️Wow!! You have so much control and i am in awe , because your skills are on another level.👌‼️THANK YOU. Toom@CapeTown
Hi Mark, I admire your patience with the cutting. Your pictures are beautiful again. I can see the fun you are having and hope that you will come up with many more ideas:) I love the way you have designed your sketchbook:) I would love to take a look at it. Maybe you could make a video on how you design a sketchbook. Creative greetings, Gabi :)
Hi Gabi. been neglecting my sketchbooks! I'll do a video though. thanks for comments and support : )
Very good. I really like the end result.
: ) hope you give techniques a try : )
I just found your channel, and I can't stop watching your videos. You are amazing with the gel plate. You have taught me so much. Thank you for sharing your experience, creativity, and time.
Thanks for your lovely message. Always happy to hear videos resonate and help people with their own directions 😀
You make it look soo easy 😅 loving it a lot 👍
Thank you, you do an incredible job of explaining and love your work!
Amazing. I'm trying some of your techniques on small scale. I really appreciate you sharing the how. And why.
loved that, really great, thanks
: ) a pleasure, glad you enjoyed it Suzie
Halftones work so well with the gelli print laser prints. Great mixedmedia piece. Tfs
Indeed, Procreate a great way of getting there quickly if you have an iPad
This is absolutely stunning!
Thanks Mark, found your channel by accident as I wanted to experiment with decollage techniques. So many helpful hints and easy to understand advice, really inspirational and I've only watched two videos! Need to go and create now! Have subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks again.
Hey Yeatester :) You are undoubtedly the master artist with gel plate and stencils and overall creativity and all of us enjoy your teachings so much. I stumbled upon something called kitchen lithography and loved the idea. Whenever you are finished exploring your current projects, maybe teach us another way to print. I know you will rock our socks off. Thank you :)
Hi there, just looked up kitchen lithography. Looks fascinating and I will certainly give it a go. I have some oil based commercial printing ink which I think will go a bit too thick with talcum powder. I'll have a play and let you know how I get on in a future video : )
Stunning work!! Thank you for sharing.
j'adore !
: ) xxx thank you
Wow.....so fun to watch a true artist at work. Love this piece.
That's awesome
: )
Such a joy, I agree with comment that you are a gel plate magician
Very kind : )
Oh you beauty !!
: )
This evening I enjoyed your 3 new videos and admire your patient cutting out all the details in your stencils.
Good tip your dots for registration and your Photoshop tips.
Love the combination of collage and transfer.
Again fantastic results - you seam to be a gelplate-magician.
Thanks for the lot of work you must have done creating these 3 videos and thanks again for sharing them with us.
A pleasure to share, i love stenciling and spray cans (80s child and teenager!!!) and I guess the love of layers just grew into print and painting...
Great video
: ) cheers Joyce
Very fun video and print! Thanks for the inspiration!
Cheers, was fun to make. Not sure why but I love tin cans! Will do a sardine tin next which will bring Cannery Row to mind as I love that book!
I really enjoyed her last videos. Fantastic work. Every time I admire your selection of colors and the necessary advance planning to create such ingenious works. Thanks for sharing Brygida x
Hi Brygida, glad you enjoyed and great to see you doing some gel plate on your channel too - love how your palette and textures come through in all the techniques you explore : )
@@yeatesmakes I love the gel plate. I want to try to print on large canvas. I also love the Pebeo colors, thanks for this tip. I am glad that I know your channel. Your videos and artworks are the best I know.
Wonderful print, Yeats Mates! Thank you for your videos.
: ) a pleasure
That was awesome. Love the final result. Thank you for sharing your entire process!
Cheers Faelan, was a fun one to make : )
Wow you have been busy! Thanks so much for sharing your time with us! This came out so well.
Cheers pippi, a pleasure. those half tone transfers work so well... you gotta try : )
Wow. Just found your channel. Great work.
: ) welcome aboard
Nice! And yes, get one side of the cardboard damp for an easy peel.
: )
Wonderful work! I love this "fine art" approach with the gelli plate...
: ) cheers maryann
Fantastic!!! Thank you for this great 3videos 🙂
: ) a pleasure
Wonderful. Love how you use the gel plate in so many ways on one print. Thank you!
A pleasure to share, hope you make techniques work for you : )
You are amazing!!! Thanks for sharing your skills ,wisdom and knowledge! LoVe your style!
Cheers Corine, glad you enjoyed : )
A real beauty. I realise, watching this video, that I probably always go for a LOT of contrast in my colors. Like the ton sur ton much more,. And the way you worked the image of the can in procreate made it much more interesting than a "normal" imagetransfer. Thank you, you're a star !
Hi marijke, thanks, as ever, for your encouraging comments. lovely reading the different aspects and perspectives people take away from vids. I think the halftone filter is really useful for gel plate but there are loads of cool textured brushes on Procreate too that I have yet to explore for image transfer.
Love love love this. Thank you for this great tutorial. Will need to look back for another half tone vid - the procreate and photoshop steps a bit much for me. But do so like this. 🧡
Cheers Jan, if you have an iPad, I really recommend Procreate - it has so many uses and the interface is pretty intuitive (not like Photoshop!!!!)
Hello, fantastic creations ... 😃😃😃👍 could tou tell me please what Laser Printer do you use? Because the one I'm using doesnt works and all the transfers are empty. Thanks 😉
I use print outs from a copy shop, from one of this big office copier printer machines
@@yeatesmakes Thank you for the reply 😉
Oh How great, this collage, how simpel stuff you use, your voice. :) Always fun to see your videos! Thanks for your inspirations!
A pleasure to share, thanks for kind words Jasmin ; )
Great video. I have learned so much from your videos and plan to use many of the techniques for kids camps i teach this summer. Keep the excellent videos coming. Cheers!
That's great to hear Joseph, hope thecamps go well : )
Thanks!
No problem! A pleasure
Thank you, Mark, for sharing your creative process. Your work is amazing and I'm finding these printmaking videos to be good tutorials and jumping off points for my own gel plate prints. I will surely explore (and be inspired by) your other techniques and processes as well. Well done! and I look forward to your next creative endeavors.
Glad you are getting some inspiration peggy - that's my main aim!!!
Terrific fun and great work. Thank you for sharing your skills. Cheers
A pleasure : )
Always mazed by your creative process! Thank you for your inspiration!
A pleasure, hope you give some tips a try : )
I’ve only recently found your channel and you’re blowing my mind with the gel plate’s potential. Would you mind sharing what type of laser printer you use?
This is really great sir! :D
cheers krysz :)
First - I LOVE you!! Second - get an affiliate link and let me know what brayer that is :-) Rather you get a few pennies when I buy it. Thanks for all you do - as a collage artist, I can FINALLY see a purpose for the Gelli plate I bought like...a hundred years ago!
Thanks for the love! the brayer is made by Esdee. Not sure I'm the person to go chasing affilate links and sponsors and what not, getting ary shots of equipment and banging on about this and that would drive me nuts!!! If Honda want to sponsor me to motorbike across Asia then I am all ears !!! : ) crack the gelli from the packet x
As usual, excellent tutorial! Thank you.
: ) very kind, cheers
I admire your patience with the stencil. I am interested in stencils in case you do a video. Though the technique with pen and the gplate is fantastic. Thank you for sharing your passion.
: ) a pleasure to share
Amazing 🤩
: )
This is truly brilliant! Thank you for posting!
Cheers Pat, a pleasure and hope you got somthing useful from it : )
WOW!
: )
Great Video with Procreate. I am very interesting in Procrate with gelliplate, because Procreate is not so expensive than Photoshop. You donˋt must buy this every month. Super pop picture, very cool.
Procreate is great for prepping images for gel plate, but amazing for all sorts of art : )
Just getting started with Gel plates. Your X-acto cutting stresses me out. Only because I now use a cutting machine. You are a TRUE artist and one of the best out there. Curious how we can sell art w/copy? Where do we draw the line with copyrights?
Hi Tammy, thanks for the lovely encouraging comment. Not sure about the copyrights as I tend to only use my own imagery. where i use collage material, it is almost always text and I can't see a problem with that. What specifically where you worried about?
Fantastic:) Thank you so much, I love it :)
: ) A pleasure, hope you pick up some tips and ideas
This might be my all time favorite of your many prints! What type of paper did you use? You said 300 gsm smooth paper, is it vellum bristol or printing paper or what? I just broke down and bought a big laser printer so i can start trying your image transfer techniques!! Thanks again Mark!!
Loved seeing this process! So many steps and layers, it would be impossible to give one single technique if asked, 'How did you create this?' Wonderful piece!
: ) cheers
so well done! Love this.
Cheers : )
I love your work and your creativity. This is excellent. You give inspiration to so many people. Please csn you just explain me why and when you use the gel medium? I am sure you explained it in another video already, but don't know where to find. Thank you
hey Katrin. thanks so much for the lovely comment, it means a lot. I use gel medium (which is transparent) when I am transferring an image onto a background. if i had used say, white paint, to transfer here, it would have covered my background and undone all that work
You are such an innovator in this space of art! Love your videos. I’m just starting out and I’m having the hardest time getting a clean and clear laser print transfer … I’ve read that a color printed b/w laser print works better because of the build up of toner, is there any validity to that? My HP laser jet pro is just not layering the toner even after running the print through 3 sometimes 4 times. Any advice?
Can you use new newspapers for the transfer or do they specifically need to be old? I didn’t know if that made a difference when I want to transfer an image to a plate if the ink coverage was different on old newspapers, Thank you.
When you worked with the corrugated cardboard you took the print from the gel plate but couldn't you have used the paint on the actual cardboard as a stamp instead?
That's awesome! I've never seen a gel plate used in this way. So many possibilities! 🙂
Hi Sage, absolutely would work either way. pressing the card in to the plate means you get a smoother texture which ultimatley makes the print a bit easier to pull. not a lot in it though!
How long did you let the bent can image dry on the gel plate before you added the acrylic gel medium? And once you have placed the image and plate on the paper, how long should it stay there before you peel it away?
Hi there. It was a warm day so I only left the can image 2 or 3 minutes to dry. Once gel medium was applied and then aligned onto paper, I left it for about 10 minutes to make sure it was totally dry.
Thank you so much! Out of all the videos I've watched yours is the BEST! In my head, I've made up a story about you. I think you are an art professor in printmaking? Anyhow, I digress. I was watching your techniques with Gelli Plates because I am preparing for a gallery show. I have primarily worked in digital media but wanted to switch things up a bit. I made my own Gelli plate from gelatin & glycerine with supplies I bought off amazon. I never managed to get a good image transfer from my homemade plate & ink jet print. I'm learning that most people use laser prints or photocopy prints, do you know what the science is on this? I could get the image to transfer to the plate but never could get it to pull off. :/. I finally invested in the commercial Gelli Plate :/. It's too late for my show, but I wanted to experience the difference first hand...even if only from a magazine. Keep making videos, it's refreshing to see them as they are well edited & the sound it good. I have an MFA in Art & Technology so I'm a stickler about that stuff. :)
Hi Cynthia, such a heart warming message! Thank you. The sceince (I think!!!!) on laser copy transfer is that the ink is oil based and therefore resists the water based acrylic while it is wet on the plate. Hopefully you can explore the gel plate and incorporate it into future work and shows - best of luck : )
Hermoso trabajo! Se puede proteger con algún barniz? Gracias
muchas abrazos Graciela, el barniz le llama 'acrylic gel medium'