I love you for leaving in the “whoops, I taped down the wrong side” bit. It is SUCH a comfort to remember that smart, talented people like you make mistakes like that in those moments when I’m feeling neither smart nor talented. Thank you for your generosity.
Mary Blair, the Disney artist that did "It's a small world" has some interesting colour blockwork. She seems to be quite influenced by Klee. This one reminds me of her illustrations. Cheers! I'm still binge watching your channel.
I love watching your creative process from inspiration, design and making. I really appreciate that you don’t edit out the alterations as it allows me to feel confident to try something similar.
For the past 2 days I've been binge watching your videos. Particularly loving the Klee and Matisse stenciling and the other prints you've made. Fantastic work, you've become one of my favorite artists. Your video showed up in my feed because I've been watching other collage artists (I'm a collage artist) creating collages. You've helped a lot with your informative and confidence building instructional style. Keep up the great work!
You are so right: we love watching you do experiments on the fly! The "what if?" and "go for it" and the dialogue with the work and the process are golden. I love the shared ideas in the comments too. My contribution: I take two seconds to photocopy my original drawing as a backup or a way to create variations later.
@@yeatesmakes only paying attention to what you are doing and not distracted by trying to film and talk at the same time. Easier for me. You do such a great job.
Always fantastic to see what you've come up with when you post your videos. The commentary during your tutorials are both entertaining and useful, illustrating the thought processes that you go through and any complications that you may encounter along the way. Keep up your great and inspirational work for all of us Yeates 'Mates' out there! 👍 👌🙏
Oh Yeates, every video is so inspiring and wonderful. All these innovative ideas. And such a joy listening to your comments. Much love and blessings from Spain.
Hi Mark! You have created another incredible piece of art:)) This is a technique that requires a lot of patience. It was a lot of fun to watch you approach and experiment. You are a teacher with inexhaustible ideas!!! You can be proud to be so artistically gifted and you deserve the enthusiastic comments. I think it's great that you also show what doesn't work right away. But your end result is beautiful as always. The pictures will certainly look nice in a frame. I'm sure Paul Klee would have liked your art too:)) I am already looking forward to what will be created next in your inexhaustible workshop of ideas:)) Thank you very much!!! Gabi:)
Hey, I have a suggestion for you… When you’re going to be cutting away multiple stencils, maybe do the sketch and then make photocopies? Or… Something that works great as a stencil or a mask is TYVEK. That is the waterproof material that FedEx larger envelopes are made out of. It’s actually a spun polyester of some type. It wouldn’t deteriorate when it got wet. It’s one of my favorite things to cut masks and stencils out of. Love, love the videos!
I really love this technique! I enjoy watching you experiment. When you show us your “mistakes”, it makes your work seem more approachable… if that makes any sense. It gives people permission to experiment and not feel bad about wonky outcomes. Thank you!
Hi Mark, I have just found out I'm unable to continue with lino cutting, and was flummoxed wondering when and how else to continue my art. Your methods with the gelli plates, collage, and masking tape are so inspiring and have opened up whole new avenues for me. I'm so relieved, and so admiring of your joyful experimental methods. Many thanks :))))
So pleased to read some of my techniques have opened up some options for you. Hopefully you won't lament lino cutting too much - life pushes us sidewards sometimes, but sounds like you are quickly gonna be onwards and upwards : ) all the best x
Love that you show what goes wrong! A little tip, in your second print, if you don't want the offset, layer the colors on the plate (orange and white) then print. Remembering that what goes on the plate first will be the top layer once printed (i need a sign saying that, as often as I've messed that up...)
Hi there, i tend to show most of what goes wrong or what I'm not happy with!!!! Your tip is, of course, totally spot on! That's the joy of putting experiments up on UA-cam, it gives a little nudge to people but, in the comments, I get loads of diagnosis back!!
@@yeatesmakes 😀 yes, you certainty give nudges. I've received a large gel plate for Christmas, and it's been sitting on a shelf, silently mocking and intimidating me ever since. Your videos have given me some tricks on how I may start dealing with it though. I love your large "collage" type prints using laser prints for some layers. I usually use my gel plates to make collage papers for backgrounds in my mixed media stuff, and I have made some small booklets printing the papers on the gel plate, and that's all been fun. I guess I'll just have to resort to making an actual appointment with my big gel plate in my calendar (that usually tricks me into doing stuff)...
I enjoy your videos so much! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your ‘artist’s mind’ as your explore, invent, retool and consistently inspire. I find most gelli plate tutorials useful to an extent but you bring the ‘art’ in. I think all artists are pretty curious in general but you keep building on what you just did. You are a wonderful example of great teaching through trial and error, humor, and open mindedness. Love them all. I just bought a huge gelli plate, I have all different sizes and really love the round ones. I print on big sheets and the plate shape itself becomes a design element. I’d love to see if you have any interest in experimenting with this. I also love how your materials are readily available and more democratic. I still think you should be a u tube star. I watch tons while I work, I love learning new techniques. Yours are jam packed, much better than most. When I look at the millions of art supplies I hoard I find myself wondering what you might do with some of them. I hope you keep going, you are keeping me sane while I recover from surgery and I’m grateful. Vik
Hi Vik, lovely comment, thanks so much. I'm going to use some of the ad money and donations to buy a bigger plate. Planning on keeping the materials in the vids simple in hope they are more accessible and cut down on buying loads of stuff, particularly plastics. Hoping your recovery goes well, you sound like a pretty active person so the baby steps needed must be frustrating. Much love, Mark
I find ur process fascinating and learn something from almost every video. U inspired me to start gelli printing too when before i had little interest in this art form.
I really enjoyed seeing your process, including the parts that didn't quite work out. Thanks for posting this and thanks for keeping your whole process in the video.
Thank you so much for your wonderful demos! You are a fabulous teacher and seeing your process, along with mistakes is greatly beneficial. Many, many thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent! ❤👏❤️
Love the first one in particular. When you got pink paint on your hand and said you were going to wash them I laughed … I’d just have wiped it on my apron 😂 I enjoy hearing you talk through your processes.
I’m really enjoying watching your videos. It’s so exciting to see all the curiosity and exploration you share. I always come away with lots of ideas and inspiration so thanks very much!!!
I'm so glad you had your first design drawing-side up, it's exactly what happens when you're trying out ideas...much prefer it to videos that pretend nothing ever goes wrong! I love this technique though my knife skills for cutting out are nowhere near as accurate. I also suspect l would have torn the paper peeling off the gel plate and lost some of the bits! All good pitfalls to know about.
Love love love what you get up to and good you do some of the same silly mistakes like I do makes me keep going realising don’t have to throw the towel in when I make mistakes.
Lovely, lots of ideas to play with here! Had to laugh at your black block out, I was thinking 🤔 ‘but your drawing is gone’ it’s always great to see processes and how you fix it.
I wasn't laughing at the time! I think its best to put the mishaps in, best reminder for others to avoid the same! Cheers for comment and support Rebecca : )
I love seeing the process of mistakes turned into successes. I would have done the same thing with the black covering the drawing. Thanks so much for showing and explaining the how and why if this stencil process.
I love this approach of an adaptive stencil. Cutting lots of layered stencils and registration can be really off putting but doing it this way will be great to generate ideas!
Could you make copies of your stencil (one for each color) and cut out the shapes on each one to be printed in that color? Just make sure to register each stencil so they all print where you want them. I love your work!
Absolutely! I was winging it, improvising and thought i'd post my first dabble. Yourself and Marjike have already come back with suggestions that would improve the process!!!11
Interesting choice of colors! I recently began volunteering at a nursing home. Opera Pink is a favorite for men and women, alike! I love Klee-your instruction gives us insight for recreating this style. Thanks!
@@yeatesmakes Yes. Projects have to be scaled by physical ability, etc. There is a range of abilities from down-right professional to simple experimentation.
Such an interesting process, the stencil concept taken to a new high form. I envy your skills with the Xacto knife. I'd give this a try with VERY simple shapes. Sure looks fun!!
You can buy inexpensive Perspex sheets around the right size for all different sizes of gel plates from eBay. Definitely a handy way to keep your gel plate mounted.
@@yeatesmakes It will change your Gelli plate life! Although it obviously does make it harder to just print a section of the plate, but it’s easily removed to do that
There was an art movement in France with stencils. Pochoir prints around the turn of the century in art deco, see S. Chompré. I just recently stumbled across those and was fascinated by their complex layering of dozens of stencils in these pieces. Your technique I'd call reduction stenciling and is an interesting technique. Thanks for sharing. Again I'm in awe.
Amazing as usual! I love how you’re not afraid to get complex right out of the gate! I will try something like this too, but make it a bit less complicated 😊
Love to see you explore the art world with your amazing talent. Have your ever seen the works of Faith Ringold or Romare Bearden? You might enjoy considering an exploration of their work.
Hi Toni. I know Faith Ringold's work and love it but had never come across Romare Bearden - oh my, its beautiful. Obviously you knew the collage would be right up my street but it is his incredible compositional sense that hit me first, wow. I'm going to investigate more. Thanks so much for the heads up ; )
Oh my goodness that was awesome tutorial but I'm pretty sure you had a lot to do and also some hard times with that one. The moment I saw that you've chosen the black parts first, I said how he would be able to see the other lines after covering the whole piece with black?! And then it was you who was struggling with it. 😁 anyway I just wanna say thanks again for all the effort you put on this project and made an awesome tutorial, full of tips and tricks and experiences that are useful for the audience. I've shared this video on my Pinterest page too
Cheers! I wondered how you were going to deal with covering your drawing with paint - I still haven't finished the video, so it's still a mystery .....onward!.....well done, mate!
It would be really cool if you did a piece inspired by Fracis Bacon, if you haven't already. He used very unusual colours and combination. Id love to see your take on Bacon.
Thanks for the video. Lovely results. I keep thinking that there must be a way to organise it a bit easier. So that you don't have to lift the gelli plate at all. Hinge the two papers on each side of the gelli plate and cut out the parts you want to give colour. flip it on the plate and roll over the paper. (you have to ink the brayer on the side). then flip the paper with the cut out parts back an take the image from the plate with the hinged paper on the right. clean the plate and work on the drawing on the left. And so on. Of course you could do this without a gelli plate, but you will have trouble to fill the cut out spaces totally. Because of the softness of the plate I think you can fill the cutout spaces neatly. Maybe a incomprehensible description of my thoughts. But i am going to try it right now.
Hi Marijke, love your comment, love your thinking. The good thing about filming a first try at an idea is that people are, like yourself, going to see ways in and around. Learning together! You could just paint with brushes of course! But I really like the texture and even coverage you get with gel plate and, as you say, its an easy way to get a neat transfer of the shape you want. I'm going to try your double hinge technique - will save on some of that reassembling and reducing stencils shapes all on the one sheet. You could use them again far more easily. Such great feedback, thanks again : )
If I'm understanding your description, the issue I see here is that you'd once again be printing over the drawing. Either that, or you've got to figure out how to cut the subsequent paper shapes from the side of the paper not in contact with the plate, either 1) without removing the drawing from your hinge (if it's flipped off of the gel plate) or 2) without cutting your plate (if the drawing is flipped onto your plate). Gelli Arts makes a registration tool that could simplify this process: See "Gel Printing With the New Gelli Arts® Perfect Placement Tool by Marsha Valk" (at ua-cam.com/video/-HZB4SZvra4/v-deo.html ). You'll have to watch that video for the rest of this to make sense, but it's probably worth it: It should be relatively straightforward to make a similar device out of stacked corrugated cardboard L-shapes. Use small strips of the same cardboard to register the paper and stencil against, in place of their more-complicated peg system. You'll sacrifice flexibility, but you'll get similar results for a lot less money. You'd likely have to construct a registration L-shape for each unique combination of different-sized paper and/or gel plate. But if you cut your stencil from the same size sheet as the paper you're printing on, both should align properly against the same braces (/on/ the L), while the gel plate aligns nestled /into/ the L. (This will make sense, once you see the video. It's really a clever and simple method.) Love the resulting images, Mark, both in this one and the Matisse style that preceded. However, there are some significant audio issues in this one, again. The sound levels are all over the map. Either I lose some of what you say, or other parts of the video (and the ads!) BLAST out of the speakers. Or out of my headphones (which is worse, at least from a cardio-vascular perspective). Still, beautiful and playful results, yet again.
@@yeatesmakes Well, i tried my idea and I have to say, not much advantages. only one was that I didn't have to pick up the gelli plate each time. The solid covering of the shapes work better when you ink up the whole plate. Besides I had to do a lot of washing and drying the gelli plate and my palette on the side. Had to do as much of cutting and reassembling as you did. So, for me , not a success but had a few hours of playing and that was of course the best part of it.
@@Xenopticon So sorry about audio - and your ears!!!! No matter how many times I saved it, parts came out out of synch and levels went weird. The mission this year is to get some decent audio and visual equipment!!! haven't come across the placement tool - cheers for the heads up. Sure I'll be able to rustle something similar up. As ever, your feedback add so much to the channel and all our learning. Hugely appreciated. : )
@@Xenopticon I have made a registration L-shape that works wonderful with my (reduction ) lino-cutting. Never thought of using it here. The drawing side came on the gell plate and when I flipped it over, I could cut into it easily, so that was no problem .
@@yeatesmakes I think small scale- maybe 8 x 8 would be terrific.I am I interested in these collaged cradled wood panels I see out and about in galleries.Truly I am just intrigued by your art projects and techniques especially the gel plate creations chine colle/collograph designs.❤️
Hi Mark! Wow you really push the boundaries. I discovered you fairly recently and I love what you do. I just got 2 Gelli arts plates and I'm looking forward to doing my own version of Paul Klee. Have you ever used watercolours on the plate before? If so, how did it work? I'm wondering if they work. Thanks and take care!
Hi there, someone commented on one of the videos recently that mixing a tiny bit of washing up liquid with watercolours helps them settle on the plate without separating. Gonna try this in a video soon :
@@yeatesmakes Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. I saw recently that if you brayer on gel medium before you add the watercolour then it spreads out evenly. Thought you might like to know! Take care!
Mark, thanks for offering such a great channel! I really appreciate the gel plate experimenting. I’ve done a fair amount of gel printing but a lot of your techniques are just what I needed for my work! A couple of questions. My first effort with this stencil technique didn’t work too well. The transfer of paint to the paper wasn’t even and didn’t go to the edges of the cut opening, no sharp clean edges. I’m using Amsterdam acrylics. Thinking my stencil paper is too thick (80lb paper), not pressing hard enough (though used lots of pressure I think), not leaving to to dry long enough (10 minutes) or using too much or too little paint. Any suggestions? Also, not used to using acrylics with soft brayers. Do you wash it after each color or just get most off by rolling it on scratch paper. Bit of paint remains, I’m not sure if over time that will ruin the brayer. Thanks again for the tremendous content!!
Hi Bob. I think you'll have to experiment with thickness of paper, I was using 140gsm. More important is the amount of paint - an even but slightly thicker layer than you'd use for image transfer. working quick and adding the requisite pressure to work up to the edges of your cut stencil is also important : ) My brayers are a mess! I usually just use scrap paper then soak and scrub 'em later!
I bumped into your videos and now I bought myself a gelplate, some acrylic and a roller. Don't think I bought a really good plate because I was really hard to take the plastic off. Really hard. Then I tried to make a transfer but the paper stuck to the plate. Is it the wrong paper? I was printing paper. Did I press to hard? It is cheap acrylic.is it too cheap? I just wanted one print 😭😭😭
Hi Marianne - don't despair! Myself and no doubt others who view the channel and regularly comment will help! What brand is the gel plate? What paper? How long did you leave it on the plate? How much paint? That will help me diagnose a few things!!!
If you transfer your painting on to different pages would that not be easier to cut and stamp? So you coul cut out each area on the next page. All what is important is to have the mark for putting the paper on. Or? So that would be my way, I guess but I did not such printing jet
I love you for leaving in the “whoops, I taped down the wrong side” bit. It is SUCH a comfort to remember that smart, talented people like you make mistakes like that in those moments when I’m feeling neither smart nor talented.
Thank you for your generosity.
Mary Blair, the Disney artist that did "It's a small world" has some interesting colour blockwork. She seems to be quite influenced by Klee. This one reminds me of her illustrations. Cheers! I'm still binge watching your channel.
I love watching your creative process from inspiration, design and making. I really appreciate that you don’t edit out the alterations as it allows me to feel confident to try something similar.
You are a gelli plate wizard!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Lol! I'll take that!
For the past 2 days I've been binge watching your videos. Particularly loving the Klee and Matisse stenciling and the other prints you've made. Fantastic work, you've become one of my favorite artists. Your video showed up in my feed because I've been watching other collage artists (I'm a collage artist) creating collages. You've helped a lot with your informative and confidence building instructional style. Keep up the great work!
Lovely message, thanks :) Glad to know some of my vids are appealing to collage artists
You are so right: we love watching you do experiments on the fly! The "what if?" and "go for it" and the dialogue with the work and the process are golden. I love the shared ideas in the comments too. My contribution: I take two seconds to photocopy my original drawing as a backup or a way to create variations later.
Sage advice, cheers!!!
Oh that IS sage advice, thanks!
I am binge watching your videos….so so inspiring…brimming with ideas now thank you so much for these
What a great example you set for young artists - making mistakes is inevitable, and you didn’t edit them out. Thank you. ❤
Loved this one. Sitting here anticipating your awareness of the error. The suspense was thrilling.
Seems a few of you have sharper focus than me!!!!
@@yeatesmakes only paying attention to what you are doing and not distracted by trying to film and talk at the same time. Easier for me. You do such a great job.
Always fantastic to see what you've come up with when you post your videos. The commentary during your tutorials are both entertaining and useful, illustrating the thought processes that you go through and any complications that you may encounter along the way. Keep up your great and inspirational work for all of us Yeates 'Mates' out there! 👍 👌🙏
Cheers Paul, great to know you're still tuning in : ) Thanks, too, for encouraging words
I was screaming at my phone, "no, the drawing!!!!" 😭😭😂😂I love the final pieces, I wish I had the patience to cut out😍
Always a pleasure to watch you work and create.
Cheers Rolf, thanks for kind comment : )
Oh Yeates, every video is so inspiring and wonderful. All these innovative ideas. And such a joy listening to your comments. Much love and blessings from Spain.
Thanks Ave, greetings and much love to you and Spain - es un pais muy amable xx
@@yeatesmakesYour Spanish as perfect as your artwork : )
and yes, just because of the sun it is a very pleasant country.
@@avetela3294 la gente tambien es gentile. mi espanol no es perfecto. espero, una dia si estudio
Hi Mark! You have created another incredible piece of art:)) This is a technique that requires a lot of patience. It was a lot of fun to watch you approach and experiment. You are a teacher with inexhaustible ideas!!! You can be proud to be so artistically gifted and you deserve the enthusiastic comments. I think it's great that you also show what doesn't work right away. But your end result is beautiful as always. The pictures will certainly look nice in a frame. I'm sure Paul Klee would have liked your art too:)) I am already looking forward to what will be created next in your inexhaustible workshop of ideas:)) Thank you very much!!! Gabi:)
Lovely message Gabi, thank you : )
Hey, I have a suggestion for you… When you’re going to be cutting away multiple stencils, maybe do the sketch and then make photocopies? Or… Something that works great as a stencil or a mask is TYVEK. That is the waterproof material that FedEx larger envelopes are made out of. It’s actually a spun polyester of some type. It wouldn’t deteriorate when it got wet. It’s one of my favorite things to cut masks and stencils out of. Love, love the videos!
THese are incredible. I love watching your process and I get so much inspiration from it. THank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed : )
Love your good tips to Master gelli printing...and take art to another level! THANKS Do in Paris 🗼👋🙏
Hi Do, glad you like the videos and the tips are helping ; )
I love Paul Klee. Thanks for this.
: ) a pleasure
I really love this technique! I enjoy watching you experiment. When you show us your “mistakes”, it makes your work seem more approachable… if that makes any sense. It gives people permission to experiment and not feel bad about wonky outcomes. Thank you!
You're clever! Thanks for sharing and showing warts and all. Good teaching.
This is genius and just what I needed!!
A great new use for my plate thanks so much
pleasure : )
Great video. Love Paul Klee. Thanks for sharing.
another fantastic video - love your work
Cheers Magda, great to know you're still tuning in : )
Great video and I was yelling not to black out your drawing…….😂😂😂 Oh well we are all human.
Thanks for sharing and enjoy the coffee I sent you.
Cheers Lynette, very kind to donate. keep yelling, one day i'll hear!!!
Great ideas, great problem solving and so articulate! Thanks for sharing your printmaking knowledge for using the gel plate!
A pleasure Sue :)
Really love this Mark - you nana! 😁
I'd like to say the mishap was because I was focusing on filming also, but its really not!
❤Thanks so much for this one Mark. Please do some more Paul Klee ❤❤
My tiny mind could not cope with all those steps. Your process is impressive.
That's the danger of filming a process as I am trying to work it out!!!! Sorry!
amazing, gorgeous, fun 😊
: ) Cheers
Hi Mark, I have just found out I'm unable to continue with lino cutting, and was flummoxed wondering when and how else to continue my art. Your methods with the gelli plates, collage, and masking tape are so inspiring and have opened up whole new avenues for me. I'm so relieved, and so admiring of your joyful experimental methods. Many thanks :))))
So pleased to read some of my techniques have opened up some options for you. Hopefully you won't lament lino cutting too much - life pushes us sidewards sometimes, but sounds like you are quickly gonna be onwards and upwards : ) all the best x
Thrilled to have discovered your channel - super talented & generous sharing your knowledge 😊
Love that you show what goes wrong!
A little tip, in your second print, if you don't want the offset, layer the colors on the plate (orange and white) then print. Remembering that what goes on the plate first will be the top layer once printed (i need a sign saying that, as often as I've messed that up...)
Hi there, i tend to show most of what goes wrong or what I'm not happy with!!!! Your tip is, of course, totally spot on! That's the joy of putting experiments up on UA-cam, it gives a little nudge to people but, in the comments, I get loads of diagnosis back!!
@@yeatesmakes 😀 yes, you certainty give nudges. I've received a large gel plate for Christmas, and it's been sitting on a shelf, silently mocking and intimidating me ever since.
Your videos have given me some tricks on how I may start dealing with it though. I love your large "collage" type prints using laser prints for some layers.
I usually use my gel plates to make collage papers for backgrounds in my mixed media stuff, and I have made some small booklets printing the papers on the gel plate, and that's all been fun.
I guess I'll just have to resort to making an actual appointment with my big gel plate in my calendar (that usually tricks me into doing stuff)...
I enjoy your videos so much! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your ‘artist’s mind’ as your explore, invent, retool and consistently inspire. I find most gelli plate tutorials useful to an extent but you bring the ‘art’ in. I think all artists are pretty curious in general but you keep building on what you just did. You are a wonderful example of great teaching through trial and error, humor, and open mindedness. Love them all. I just bought a huge gelli plate, I have all different sizes and really love the round ones. I print on big sheets and the plate shape itself becomes a design element. I’d love to see if you have any interest in experimenting with this. I also love how your materials are readily available and more democratic. I still think you should be a u tube star. I watch tons while I work, I love learning new techniques. Yours are jam packed, much better than most. When I look at the millions of art supplies I hoard I find myself wondering what you might do with some of them. I hope you keep going, you are keeping me sane while I recover from surgery and I’m grateful. Vik
Hi Vik, lovely comment, thanks so much. I'm going to use some of the ad money and donations to buy a bigger plate. Planning on keeping the materials in the vids simple in hope they are more accessible and cut down on buying loads of stuff, particularly plastics. Hoping your recovery goes well, you sound like a pretty active person so the baby steps needed must be frustrating. Much love, Mark
This was really inspiring. I hadn’t seen techniques like this ever, it’s so cool to see something so unique.
Cheers fanciful, glad you enjoyed. Those little stencil shapes are so useful in loads of ways for all sorts of prints : )
I’m really enjoying your videos- thank you!
great to know theresa, thanks for positive comment : )
I find ur process fascinating and learn something from almost every video. U inspired me to start gelli printing too when before i had little interest in this art form.
Glad you're inspired, there's loads to discover with gelli printing
Your videos are very inspiring, thank you!
Complex exercise but looks great!
I think I made it look more complex than it needs to be!
You teach us so much. They look fantastic
Cheers Joyce, glad you got something of use : )
I really enjoyed seeing your process, including the parts that didn't quite work out. Thanks for posting this and thanks for keeping your whole process in the video.
A pleasure jeka, lovely to know you're still tuning in ; )
So. Much. Fun.
Thanks.
: ) Cheers Sandra
Thank you so much for your wonderful demos! You are a fabulous teacher and seeing your process, along with mistakes is greatly beneficial. Many, many thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent! ❤👏❤️
Thanks Mary, that's a really kind message : )
Gorgeous, WOW!!!❤❤
Love the first one in particular. When you got pink paint on your hand and said you were going to wash them I laughed … I’d just have wiped it on my apron 😂 I enjoy hearing you talk through your processes.
Would normally wipe it on the apron, or trousers!!!
I just checked out a book from the library on Paul Klee. Your experiment with a stencil is super!
Cheers Joan, enjoy the Paul Klee book. : )
Just found your channel - love this . Your drawings of the architecture are great and then the print takes it to a new level.
: ) cheers Leanne
Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
A pleasure Marie-Jose : )
Beautiful to watch you draw
: )
Amazing. You are the best. Thank!
Cheers Fran, very kind : )
I’m really enjoying watching your videos. It’s so exciting to see all the curiosity and exploration you share. I always come away with lots of ideas and inspiration so thanks very much!!!
Always love whatever you have to offer. Thank you once again.
A pleasure Susan : )
I'm so glad you had your first design drawing-side up, it's exactly what happens when you're trying out ideas...much prefer it to videos that pretend nothing ever goes wrong!
I love this technique though my knife skills for cutting out are nowhere near as accurate. I also suspect l would have torn the paper peeling off the gel plate and lost some of the bits! All good pitfalls to know about.
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and process! Very inspiring and refreshing!! Pulling out the gelli plate now! M xx
A pleasure to share, hope you had fun on your plate ; )
@@yeatesmakes Thanks! I did! Made quite the mess. : )
Love love love what you get up to and good you do some of the same silly mistakes like I do makes me keep going realising don’t have to throw the towel in when I make mistakes.
Lovely message, thanks Judy : )
ooooo, fun . . . i'm gonna try these 'artist-themed' shapes as masks instead of stencils. TY!💋
Do it, I reckon there's loads of scope for developing all sorts of drawings into interesting designs : )
I always admire your drawing- and cutting skills, and your creative mind. Love to hear your comments, great video. Thank you!
A pleasure Mieke, and thanks so much for support : )
Charming prints!
: )
There is so much potential for this style. Look forward to seeing more.
: ) glad you enjoyed
Loving watching these videos. I've ordered a gelli plate!
fascinating! thanks for all of your hard work!
Thank you Mark
Another artist Im gonna look up, great video, lots of inspiration! 🥰xxx
A pleasure Tracey, lots of joy to find in Klee's work
wonderful video! thanks for sharing! I learned a lot from your experiment!
What a Story!😃
Absolutely amazing!
Love the stencils to😍😍😍
: ) Thanks
Lovely, lots of ideas to play with here! Had to laugh at your black block out, I was thinking 🤔 ‘but your drawing is gone’ it’s always great to see processes and how you fix it.
I wasn't laughing at the time! I think its best to put the mishaps in, best reminder for others to avoid the same! Cheers for comment and support Rebecca : )
I love seeing the process of mistakes turned into successes. I would have done the same thing with the black covering the drawing. Thanks so much for showing and explaining the how and why if this stencil process.
I love this approach of an adaptive stencil. Cutting lots of layered stencils and registration can be really off putting but doing it this way will be great to generate ideas!
Its a fun way to work, kind of a lose plan but lots of room for improvising !
Could you make copies of your stencil (one for each color) and cut out the shapes on each one to be printed in that color? Just make sure to register each stencil so they all print where you want them. I love your work!
Absolutely! I was winging it, improvising and thought i'd post my first dabble. Yourself and Marjike have already come back with suggestions that would improve the process!!!11
Quite a laborious/intensive process but awesome result. Each video I am more amazed by your talent.. thx
Cheers Reni, as other comments suggest, I've made it more laborious than needs to be in!!!!
Wonderful work! The process is cool. I'll have to try this.
I reckon it has legs, plenty of ideas forming having done the experiment! Cheers for comments Kathy : )
Interesting choice of colors! I recently began volunteering at a nursing home. Opera Pink is a favorite for men and women, alike! I love Klee-your instruction gives us insight for recreating this style. Thanks!
Hi Dawna - are you doing art with the people in the home?
@@yeatesmakes Yes. Projects have to be scaled by physical ability, etc. There is a range of abilities from down-right professional to simple experimentation.
You are amazing!
Fascinating process!
Its fun, kind of a puzzle to solve as you work and make decisions!
Beautiful work ❤️
: ) Cheers Anastacia
The outcome looks so 3D! I'm going to try and do this today, very cool!
Cheers avenger, hope it goes well : )
Such an interesting process, the stencil concept taken to a new high form. I envy your skills with the Xacto knife. I'd give this a try with VERY simple shapes. Sure looks fun!!
Fabulous video.
Cheers Catherine : )
You can buy inexpensive Perspex sheets around the right size for all different sizes of gel plates from eBay. Definitely a handy way to keep your gel plate mounted.
Will be cutting a piece this week : )
@@yeatesmakes It will change your Gelli plate life! Although it obviously does make it harder to just print a section of the plate, but it’s easily removed to do that
Amazing Yeates, as ever 😍
x Cheers P
7:50 lol..I was waiting for that revelation I scan my original and make a copy for each layer + a few extras for happy accidents.
Lol! Most of what i make feels like a happy accident, when it goes well that is¬!!
There was an art movement in France with stencils. Pochoir prints around the turn of the century in art deco, see S. Chompré. I just recently stumbled across those and was fascinated by their complex layering of dozens of stencils in these pieces.
Your technique I'd call reduction stenciling and is an interesting technique. Thanks for sharing. Again I'm in awe.
Cheers Silke, just checked pochoir prints out, fascinating! I'll investigate more. Thanks for tip : )
E. A. Seguy was an amazing exponent of pochoir.
Amazing as usual! I love how you’re not afraid to get complex right out of the gate! I will try something like this too, but make it a bit less complicated 😊
Hi Dana, let me know how it goes!
Thanks for the demo, I'm planning a gel press afternoon with my friend and this is giving me lots of ideas!
Great news, hope you have fun : )
You got game! 👍
Lol!
Love to see you explore the art world with your amazing talent. Have your ever seen the works of Faith Ringold or Romare Bearden? You might enjoy considering an exploration of their work.
Hi Toni. I know Faith Ringold's work and love it but had never come across Romare Bearden - oh my, its beautiful. Obviously you knew the collage would be right up my street but it is his incredible compositional sense that hit me first, wow. I'm going to investigate more. Thanks so much for the heads up ; )
Reminds me of the Dave Brubeck record cover.
Oh my goodness that was awesome tutorial but I'm pretty sure you had a lot to do and also some hard times with that one. The moment I saw that you've chosen the black parts first, I said how he would be able to see the other lines after covering the whole piece with black?! And then it was you who was struggling with it. 😁 anyway I just wanna say thanks again for all the effort you put on this project and made an awesome tutorial, full of tips and tricks and experiences that are useful for the audience. I've shared this video on my Pinterest page too
Hi there, thanks for such a sweet message, its a pleasure to make videos and even more that they resonate and are of use!
Cheers! I wondered how you were going to deal with covering your drawing with paint - I still haven't finished the video, so it's still a mystery .....onward!.....well done, mate!
Cheers Josephina : )
I’ll need to figure out how to get the neat drawings!
scribble scribble then plot your best line!!!!
It would be really cool if you did a piece inspired by Fracis Bacon, if you haven't already. He used very unusual colours and combination. Id love to see your take on Bacon.
oooh, there's a challenge!!!!
Thanks for the video. Lovely results. I keep thinking that there must be a way to organise it a bit easier. So that you don't have to lift the gelli plate at all. Hinge the two papers on each side of the gelli plate and cut out the parts you want to give colour. flip it on the plate and roll over the paper. (you have to ink the brayer on the side). then flip the paper with the cut out parts back an take the image from the plate with the hinged paper on the right. clean the plate and work on the drawing on the left. And so on.
Of course you could do this without a gelli plate, but you will have trouble to fill the cut out spaces totally. Because of the softness of the plate I think you can fill the cutout spaces neatly. Maybe a incomprehensible description of my thoughts. But i am going to try it right now.
Hi Marijke, love your comment, love your thinking. The good thing about filming a first try at an idea is that people are, like yourself, going to see ways in and around. Learning together! You could just paint with brushes of course! But I really like the texture and even coverage you get with gel plate and, as you say, its an easy way to get a neat transfer of the shape you want.
I'm going to try your double hinge technique - will save on some of that reassembling and reducing stencils shapes all on the one sheet. You could use them again far more easily.
Such great feedback, thanks again : )
If I'm understanding your description, the issue I see here is that you'd once again be printing over the drawing. Either that, or you've got to figure out how to cut the subsequent paper shapes from the side of the paper not in contact with the plate, either 1) without removing the drawing from your hinge (if it's flipped off of the gel plate) or 2) without cutting your plate (if the drawing is flipped onto your plate).
Gelli Arts makes a registration tool that could simplify this process: See "Gel Printing With the New Gelli Arts® Perfect Placement Tool by Marsha Valk" (at ua-cam.com/video/-HZB4SZvra4/v-deo.html ). You'll have to watch that video for the rest of this to make sense, but it's probably worth it: It should be relatively straightforward to make a similar device out of stacked corrugated cardboard L-shapes. Use small strips of the same cardboard to register the paper and stencil against, in place of their more-complicated peg system. You'll sacrifice flexibility, but you'll get similar results for a lot less money.
You'd likely have to construct a registration L-shape for each unique combination of different-sized paper and/or gel plate. But if you cut your stencil from the same size sheet as the paper you're printing on, both should align properly against the same braces (/on/ the L), while the gel plate aligns nestled /into/ the L. (This will make sense, once you see the video. It's really a clever and simple method.)
Love the resulting images, Mark, both in this one and the Matisse style that preceded. However, there are some significant audio issues in this one, again. The sound levels are all over the map. Either I lose some of what you say, or other parts of the video (and the ads!) BLAST out of the speakers. Or out of my headphones (which is worse, at least from a cardio-vascular perspective). Still, beautiful and playful results, yet again.
@@yeatesmakes Well, i tried my idea and I have to say, not much advantages. only one was that I didn't have to pick up the gelli plate each time. The solid covering of the shapes work better when you ink up the whole plate. Besides I had to do a lot of washing and drying the gelli plate and my palette on the side. Had to do as much of cutting and reassembling as you did. So, for me , not a success but had a few hours of playing and that was of course the best part of it.
@@Xenopticon So sorry about audio - and your ears!!!! No matter how many times I saved it, parts came out out of synch and levels went weird. The mission this year is to get some decent audio and visual equipment!!! haven't come across the placement tool - cheers for the heads up. Sure I'll be able to rustle something similar up. As ever, your feedback add so much to the channel and all our learning. Hugely appreciated. : )
@@Xenopticon I have made a registration L-shape that works wonderful with my (reduction ) lino-cutting. Never thought of using it here. The drawing side came on the gell plate and when I flipped it over, I could cut into it easily, so that was no problem .
Loved this, but preferred the torn edge !
I'm with you on the torn edges!!!!
Wowee !❤️ Any chance of a Monet/waterlilies : VanGogh/starry night gellimakes...could watch your magical makes all day.thankyou x
Hi Tricia - I think the Monet might be a bit beyond me on a gel plate. They are so massive! A smaller approximation maybe...
@@yeatesmakes I think small scale- maybe 8 x 8 would be terrific.I am I interested in these collaged cradled wood panels I see out and about in galleries.Truly I am just intrigued by your art projects and techniques especially the gel plate creations chine colle/collograph designs.❤️
Very. Relative!
Cheers Brenda : )
Hi Mark! Wow you really push the boundaries. I discovered you fairly recently and I love what you do. I just got 2 Gelli arts plates and I'm looking forward to doing my own version of Paul Klee. Have you ever used watercolours on the plate before? If so, how did it work? I'm wondering if they work. Thanks and take care!
Hi there, someone commented on one of the videos recently that mixing a tiny bit of washing up liquid with watercolours helps them settle on the plate without separating. Gonna try this in a video soon :
@@yeatesmakes Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. I saw recently that if you brayer on gel medium before you add the watercolour then it spreads out evenly. Thought you might like to know! Take care!
What about using a water-based printing ink? Wouldn’t the coverage and opacity be more predictable?
Mark, thanks for offering such a great channel! I really appreciate the gel plate experimenting. I’ve done a fair amount of gel printing but a lot of your techniques are just what I needed for my work!
A couple of questions. My first effort with this stencil technique didn’t work too well. The transfer of paint to the paper wasn’t even and didn’t go to the edges of the cut opening, no sharp clean edges. I’m using Amsterdam acrylics. Thinking my stencil paper is too thick (80lb paper), not pressing hard enough (though used lots of pressure I think), not leaving to to dry long enough (10 minutes) or using too much or too little paint. Any suggestions?
Also, not used to using acrylics with soft brayers. Do you wash it after each color or just get most off by rolling it on scratch paper. Bit of paint remains, I’m not sure if over time that will ruin the brayer.
Thanks again for the tremendous content!!
Hi Bob. I think you'll have to experiment with thickness of paper, I was using 140gsm. More important is the amount of paint - an even but slightly thicker layer than you'd use for image transfer. working quick and adding the requisite pressure to work up to the edges of your cut stencil is also important : ) My brayers are a mess! I usually just use scrap paper then soak and scrub 'em later!
Mark: 2 questions. Do you have 2 separate breyer/rollers for paint and gel medium, and how do you clean the paint off the breyer?
Hi there, I have a few brayers and just clean them, either on scrap paper or in the sink, as I go.
You could have made a stencil for each color. Great pattern
Lol, by the time I'd finished I realised I could have made it simpler!!! I guess I'm saving paper at least!
I bumped into your videos and now I bought myself a gelplate, some acrylic and a roller. Don't think I bought a really good plate because I was really hard to take the plastic off. Really hard. Then I tried to make a transfer but the paper stuck to the plate. Is it the wrong paper? I was printing paper. Did I press to hard? It is cheap acrylic.is it too cheap? I just wanted one print 😭😭😭
Hi Marianne - don't despair! Myself and no doubt others who view the channel and regularly comment will help! What brand is the gel plate? What paper? How long did you leave it on the plate? How much paint? That will help me diagnose a few things!!!
If you transfer your painting on to different pages would that not be easier to cut and stamp? So you coul cut out each area on the next page. All what is important is to have the mark for putting the paper on. Or? So that would be my way, I guess but I did not such printing jet
Absolutely!!! As long as you plan the piece out first - I didn't!!!!