The gel plate master! Love that idea of not covering the entire plate with paint so it causes image transfers and textures to fade off. Also the torn paper edges! 😍 wow
Fantastic tips!!!! Your techniques will transform the world of Gel printing into a true artform! May the word spread about your videos. A HUGE thumbs up.
I love this inclusion of some techniques for softer more subtle backgrounds. So many gel plate/mixed media artists are so eager to show off every technique they know and every color they own. Therefore every background is super bold and screaming loud. Which is fine, but simply not right for every project.
I've only recently discovered gel plate printing. Having watched countless UA-cam videos looking for inspiration and know-how, yours are the first to get me rolling paint onto my shiny new gel plate. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to the possibilities of this technique.
You are a Superhero. You inspire and teach me. Sometimes I just watch your videos just to start my day. Prior to me discovering you I watched Lori Marie Jenkins she made me comfortable using and experimenting with mixed media. You have impressed upon the art of tenacity and working artwork - how to push a piece to beauty if not perfection. I just finished a piece I would like to share with you but I don’t know how to do that. I am living my artist life and you are a part of it Teacher Mentor.
so happy to read all of this string theory? Wait, I think that is something else entirely! Do not knock the Brit Speak, cause I love it and it teaches me something astounding about their native creativity! Can not get enough of these videos!
Yeates, OMGGGGG, let me tell you that your videos are awesome and have taught me more than any artist has in the U.S. when it comes to using Gelli plates! You are amazing!!! Seriously, your are super talented and do absolutely awesome work!!!! I never thought i could use my Gelli to this type of art. WOwwwwW I LOVE IT!!!!!
Thank you so much Mark, I really really enjoyed watching you creating those different prints on the Gelli plate. Great idea too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
As one of those who requested this, a particular thanks for the explanations! This is particularly inspiring, even among the crowded field of inspirations from your previous posts. You've struck a wonderful balance between the historically painterly aspect of monoprinting and the surface character that so many of us love in the printed and transferred image. I wholeheartedly agree with Jackie Copeland, below, about the torn-edge technique for softening the edges. It's a technique I've used in other contexts, but somehow hadn't thought of for use with a gel plate. I love the way that idea, combined with the other techniques in this demo, break that hard-edged rectangular format, as well as removing the size restrictions imposed by over-reliance on inking the whole plate. Also really appreciate the contribution your inking methods make to the final outcome. You're definitely expanding the vocabulary of gel printing! And, as you know by now, I enthusiastically reiterate MimZikZ's observation celebrating your nearing 1k subs. ...Looks like 5 to 7 days away. Maybe four. Huge congrats!
Cheers Xenopticon - you've been a real champion of the channel and your insightful comments bring a lot to directions for next vids. Appreciate the support and feedback as always! : )
Thank you. I want to just agree with all the great comments here. I sort of had a feeling about a small number of these ideas but your videos fill in the gaps. Even that drying time of your set up on the plate... and then print... I hadnt really thought about that too much and I think it will help my prints a lot. Cheers.
Just want to say how much I enjoy your gel press tutorials. A diet of butterflies and fairies does tend to get tiresome, after all. :-) Thanks for bringing a new and refreshing perspective to monoprinting. Greetings from Canada.
I've been watching awhile, but only recently subscribed. I find myself watching you compose ur artwork like I would a magician doing a great trick. Intrigued, curious. Then come the exclamations. That's amazing! How does he do it? Recently, I challenged myself to produce a piece in ur style using a number of techniques learned on ur channel. Ok, that I ended up slicing a larger work into 2 smaller ones, but it was a cool exercise. Thanks for sharing ur know-how so clearly. Tata from Montreal Canada.
That's very thoughtful Na Talia - I think your share certainly helped push me over the 1k subs hump!! Hopefully you and others in your group get something from my vids - I have quite a few on gel plate printing now, more will be coming I'm sure, as well as mixed media, drawing, printmaking etc. Thanks again!
@@yeatesmakes congratulations now you have more than 1k subscribers. And I wish you more and more :)) the length of the videos are fine and very informative. Everyone can find 10 min to watch them. The content you provide bis absolutely brilliant. A small advice may you list your art supplies used in the video under the description. This will be also very helpful. I loved your sketch book page. I'd love to see more about collage, gelliprinitng, drawing. Thank you so much!
@@yeatesmakes thanks so much, I allowed myself to ask you because of your previous video "one month on UA-cam". And now I have to write here those people who saw my post about you in the group are very happy and say many thanks and lots of compliments about your video and skills!
Having been doing this manually without a gel plate, I can already just imagine how this is going to improve my workflow and freshen up my technique! Thank you!
your channel is my new favorite and i thank you for putting so much technique heavy and supply light videos out. i know it takes a lot of work and i appreciate it. i have posted about you on my FB page and several of my friends are already fans and have subscribed. hope it helps!
I can't wait to try this technique. I find with using gelli printing as a background for your art it often just adds depth to your work and honestly it's not too difficult at all to do this! I'd say the challenge comes with choosing colours and patterns which work together. Another benefit of using gelli printing for backgrounds is that it looks like you did a lot of work to achieve those effects when really it doesn't seem to take too long :)
Have you thought about doing a clinic for gelli plate woes ? With everything you’ve learnt I bet you’d be able to do fantastic crits . Love love love the videos .
wow. completely innovative and creative approach to stepping out of the gelli plate mold. Super direct and refreshing approach. Just wish i could draw.
Fantástico tutorial. Muy distinto a todos los que había visto antes. Excelente. Gracias por compartir, muchas gracias. Me he suscrito al canal. Un saludo
Hola Maria, voy a intentar escribir en espanol - no hay muchas opportunidades para hacerlo en mi vida! Estoy muy feliz mi tutorial es distinto para ti y muchas gracias para su suscription y saludo
Hey Mark, just to let you know, and to give credit where it's due,...I was directed your way by Josh Bowe (who's obviously a fan of yours) and I'm so glad I followed his suggestion. The work he's doing with his multiple portraits is interesting and getting more so by the week (I forget what he calls it?). Anyway, cheers to the both of you!
Lovely tutorial, I’m off to find part two now,! love the soft colours, a challenge for me, I’m usually living more in the ‘smack you in the face colour palette. I’ll try something new. Thanks
Really interesting process, and I really love that your plate can be reused to amend/adjust/refine as you go along. A couple of questions…. Could this process work by making the plate on acetate instead of Perspex? And you mention hand tinting with watercolour as well. Do you have examples of this, and how does this work over acrylic? Do you add some medium to the watercolour? I have always loved the gritty rawness of markmaking with collagraph, though I am more familiar with a reductive process and your masking tape methods are additive, a process I have only seen with collage before. I really like the idea of masking tape, and the fineness of detail that is possible. I am serially watching your videos as they open up a lot of processes to me again, I am a cat owning wheelchair user, both of which limit me to some degree but everything about Gelli printing is accessible for me, and possible. Unlike many printing processes none of it involves excessive hand strength or bulky equipment! Or even specialist studio areas in your home… this is quite a game changer for a lot of people, and I am sure there are a lot of people out there who would find this fascinating.
I just love what you do with the Gelli plate, I like the masculine approach for a change! I am still trying to make a successful transfer, it is frustrating!🇨🇦
I am getting great ideas for working on my jelli plates from your videos! Have saved all of them for future reference! unfortunately, not had a moment to reply to you as to my own images. But soon! I am really excited to try these techniques! As I live in the Pacific Northwest, where can I get some hesson material? I am not familiar with this material. But dashing right along:like the playing with the edges of the plate! I know there are differing terms (words for materials in Britian ), just not sure sometimes what is meant by the materials you describe. The one thing I wish to tell you is keep doing these videos, it is such a wonderful means of transforming gelli printing into art form beyond just doing journals and masses of wrapping paper delights! You go guy!
I live in the PNW, too (Everett, WA). "Hessian" is just daft Brit speak for burlap. (They have to make up their own words for things, for some reason. Quite adolescent, really.) :^D However, Mark also refers to a much looser-weave mesh as hessian, in this video. I'm not sure about this stuff. I got some similar fiber mesh from Display and Costume (if you have one where you are), but it was quite grungy and ripped up. I think that stuff was a Halloween supply, but they may have similar, less-grungy mesh or net for other purposes. You might try asking for decorative fishing nets. It also occurs to me that you could get a similar open-weave stuff by pulling a certain number of threads from ordinary burlap, the number depending on how open you want the resulting mesh to end up. You might want to stabilize the remaining intersections with glue, gel medium, or a small stitch, to keep the whole thing from falling apart. And you should count the threads as you choose which threads to pull, to make sure the remaining threads still weave over-under-over-under. (I /think/ you need to remove an even number between each "keeper" thread.) Hope this is useful!
I love this, burlap, hessian! And, Xenopticon's right, the piece of string mesh stuff wasn't even hessian. It's more like, well, string mesh stuff! From a haberdashery i think, or whatever it's called!
@@yeatesmakes Aww, sorry! No pressure. I'm just very inspired by your demos, which integrate so many of the media I love to use. And your art work is very beautiful.
Yeates, AMAZING AMAZING WORK! Do you have to let the magazine transfers dry or can you pull the print wet? Also, each time you lay down textures or something to transfer, do you ahve to cover it with acrylic and let it dry before pulling the print?
Not always, but often the transfer process dries the paint quite a lot and they won't then transfer without a further layer. You just have to judge it!!!!!
Mark, question about terminology. You keep referring to “pulling off” an image from the gelli plate with “white” or “gray”, but don’t say what it is exactly. Is that a paint or a medium of some sort? Please clarify. I continue to love your posts!
Found your channel through recommendation by Suzieq.makes. Just bought a gel press and am watching many tutorials on gel printing to learn tips and how to techniques. Have just subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the videos. I will follow along and learn things.
Greetings from down Under! Very informative videos, been painting a long time, but haven't mastered the gelli plate, and having problems transferring glossy magazine images to the gelli plate. Any suggestions?
Hi, in your reply to one of the comments you mention using the right pen to draw over these backgrounds. What pen do you find the best for this? Thanks
Sometimes sell pieces on cartridge but make it clear it is not 'archival'. However, it is wood and acid free which means, kept out of direct light, it will not yellow or degrade over time
Hi Allison, I've been keeping it fast paced and packed with tips and details because some mentioned other videos on gel printing are often a bit slow and rambling! I'll bear it in mind and slow down a bit!
Not to confuse things, but I liked the pace - much easier to view and absorb than other videos. These are the most useful vids of any I’ve seen on this art form. Thanks so much for your generosity in making them 🙂
sorry, I know this pair of vids was a little quick - had a lot to get in, planned on one, was too long so split them and then never really slowed it down enough! Feedback is on board!!
@Beth Miller You can choose you own prefered pase/speed, btw (Even for just a specific part of the video). Look for: 1) SETTING icon 2) Playback Speed 3) Automatically it is being set on NORMAL... 🤔 Lol... but you can choose 75%-50% (from my experience, lower than that is way tooooo sloooooooow 😅 but you do you. E-N-J-O-Y!
Awesome, i really enjoyed this.. but it does nothing to erase the childhood trauma of me being on your shoulders and you charging into a 15 foot wave in coogee bay.
Eres un gran artista. Tienes grandes habilidades con gelli plate y demás posibilidades. Además muy sexy. Un viejo sesentón te admira desde islas Canarias..
The gel plate master! Love that idea of not covering the entire plate with paint so it causes image transfers and textures to fade off. Also the torn paper edges! 😍 wow
Fantastic tips!!!! Your techniques will transform the world of Gel printing into a true artform! May the word spread about your videos. A HUGE thumbs up.
As long as a few out there make more Art then I'm happy. I do think unmined the gel plate is a bit of an unmined gem!!!!
Art not craft! You’ve really elevated the gelli plate with your artistry and hands-on techniques. Thanks so much!
Brilliant using the plate to extent over the edges and the torn paper technique is great. Thank you!
Delicious textures! Thanks for this. You are truly free with your experimentation. Love that.
Just what I needed today. Thanks. You are one good teacher!
I love this inclusion of some techniques for softer more subtle backgrounds. So many gel plate/mixed media artists are so eager to show off every technique they know and every color they own. Therefore every background is super bold and screaming loud. Which is fine, but simply not right for every project.
I've only recently discovered gel plate printing. Having watched countless UA-cam videos looking for inspiration and know-how, yours are the first to get me rolling paint onto my shiny new gel plate. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to the possibilities of this technique.
That's the best feedback I could get Betty, thanks and enjoy your new plate! Won't be shiny for long!
Totally agree
You are a Superhero. You inspire and teach me. Sometimes I just watch your videos just to start my day. Prior to me discovering you I watched Lori Marie Jenkins she made me comfortable using and experimenting with mixed media. You have impressed upon the art of tenacity and working artwork - how to push a piece to beauty if not perfection. I just finished a piece I would like to share with you but I don’t know how to do that. I am living my artist life and you are a part of it Teacher Mentor.
Thanks for the comment Sarobi, really kind words. Glad you're picking up some tips and the videos are encouraging you to create : )
so happy to read all of this string theory? Wait, I think that is something else entirely! Do not knock the Brit Speak, cause I love it and it teaches me something astounding about their native creativity! Can not get enough of these videos!
cheers kate, you're always up for a bubble x
Love the way you got out of the gel 'box'. Very clear instruction. I wish my drawing skills were half what you have
Done a lot of basic gelli
Plate printing as I facilitate art for my local homeless community. This is a fab advance method. Very well done
Fabulous. I need this. I was feeling rather limited with my gelli plate.
I am so happy to have discovered your channel! You are wonderful, generous and clear in sharing your info!
Thanks J A, very kind comment
I love the oil paper element. I've got a whole big box but never used it with the gel plate.
I've just found your videos. Mind blown!! You have given me so many ideas to make the gelli plate more creative. Thanks so much.
Hi Christine, delighted you've found the channel and that there's some tips you're enjoying : )
Yeates, OMGGGGG, let me tell you that your videos are awesome and have taught me more than any artist has in the U.S. when it comes to using Gelli plates! You are amazing!!! Seriously, your are super talented and do absolutely awesome work!!!! I never thought i could use my Gelli to this type of art. WOwwwwW I LOVE IT!!!!!
Such a lovely comment Brade, thank you. Great that you getting so much from the videos : ) Stay in touch, let me know how your own experiments go
Your drawings are wonderful! I love botanicals! The gell plate tutorials are awesome too!
Thanks, really kind. As I mentioned, a really forgiving subject matter!!! (and they don't move!!!)
Your 'art skills' are EXCEPTIONAL - very creative 'eye'. Thank you for all your inspiration!
What a comprehensive demonstration of this idea! Great teacher honestly fantastic stuff!
Cheers Alicecile, that's a lovely compliment : )
Thank you so much Mark, I really really enjoyed watching you creating those different prints on the Gelli plate. Great idea too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
Hi Mags, pleased the video was useful to you. Thanks, as ever, for leaving thoughtful comments : )
I am really enjoying your posts, thanks so much for sharing so many inspiring ways of working ‘outside the rectangle’ I love your work
A pleasure, thanks for thanks : )
As one of those who requested this, a particular thanks for the explanations! This is particularly inspiring, even among the crowded field of inspirations from your previous posts. You've struck a wonderful balance between the historically painterly aspect of monoprinting and the surface character that so many of us love in the printed and transferred image.
I wholeheartedly agree with Jackie Copeland, below, about the torn-edge technique for softening the edges. It's a technique I've used in other contexts, but somehow hadn't thought of for use with a gel plate. I love the way that idea, combined with the other techniques in this demo, break that hard-edged rectangular format, as well as removing the size restrictions imposed by over-reliance on inking the whole plate. Also really appreciate the contribution your inking methods make to the final outcome.
You're definitely expanding the vocabulary of gel printing! And, as you know by now, I enthusiastically reiterate MimZikZ's observation celebrating your nearing 1k subs. ...Looks like 5 to 7 days away. Maybe four. Huge congrats!
Cheers Xenopticon - you've been a real champion of the channel and your insightful comments bring a lot to directions for next vids. Appreciate the support and feedback as always! : )
a very good re hab or those texture tricks I forget to enclude in my work. Again thanks good friend of an artist. kEEP MAKING THE VIDEOS!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ loved it 🎉👏👏 thank you so very much for sharing 💐
A pleasure, thanks for comment : )
Thank you. I want to just agree with all the great comments here. I sort of had a feeling about a small number of these ideas but your videos fill in the gaps. Even that drying time of your set up on the plate... and then print... I hadnt really thought about that too much and I think it will help my prints a lot. Cheers.
Precisely what I’ve been looking for. Thanks!
Great news
Such beautiful drawings! 💕
Just want to say how much I enjoy your gel press tutorials. A diet of butterflies and fairies does tend to get tiresome, after all. :-)
Thanks for bringing a new and refreshing perspective to monoprinting.
Greetings from Canada.
Cheers Heather, a pleasure to share and glad you enjoy my take on the gel plate : )
Lovely little tips! TY, so much, for your inspo!
This is totally original stuff you are doing: it’s superb artistic use of the gel plate and tremendously expressive!
: ) Cheers Karin, happy making!
I've been watching awhile, but only recently subscribed. I find myself watching you compose ur artwork like I would a magician doing a great trick. Intrigued, curious. Then come the exclamations. That's amazing! How does he do it?
Recently, I challenged myself to produce a piece in ur style using a number of techniques learned on ur channel. Ok, that I ended up slicing a larger work into 2 smaller ones, but it was a cool exercise. Thanks for sharing ur know-how so clearly. Tata from Montreal Canada.
You have a great channel, I just shared it in one of the gelatin printing groups :)
@@jaquisaville-scott4601 I guess some of the group members know about the channel, but most don't. I'm glad that the admin approved my post.
That's very thoughtful Na Talia - I think your share certainly helped push me over the 1k subs hump!! Hopefully you and others in your group get something from my vids - I have quite a few on gel plate printing now, more will be coming I'm sure, as well as mixed media, drawing, printmaking etc. Thanks again!
@@yeatesmakes congratulations now you have more than 1k subscribers. And I wish you more and more :)) the length of the videos are fine and very informative. Everyone can find 10 min to watch them. The content you provide bis absolutely brilliant. A small advice may you list your art supplies used in the video under the description. This will be also very helpful. I loved your sketch book page. I'd love to see more about collage, gelliprinitng, drawing. Thank you so much!
@@NaTaliia378 Consider it done! Small token of thanks for sharing!
@@yeatesmakes thanks so much, I allowed myself to ask you because of your previous video "one month on UA-cam". And now I have to write here those people who saw my post about you in the group are very happy and say many thanks and lots of compliments about your video and skills!
Loved the techniques. Great channel. Tfs 👍
A pleasure : )
I always enjoy your posts
Cheers, and thanks for all the engagement and suggestions : )
Having been doing this manually without a gel plate, I can already just imagine how this is going to improve my workflow and freshen up my technique! Thank you!
Brilliant, hope it works for you : )
your channel is my new favorite and i thank you for putting so much technique heavy and supply light videos out. i know it takes a lot of work and i appreciate it. i have posted about you on my FB page and several of my friends are already fans and have subscribed. hope it helps!
Thanks, it does take a lot of work, especially around a busy life! t's fun though, and keeping me creative too!
I can't wait to try this technique. I find with using gelli printing as a background for your art it often just adds depth to your work and honestly it's not too difficult at all to do this! I'd say the challenge comes with choosing colours and patterns which work together. Another benefit of using gelli printing for backgrounds is that it looks like you did a lot of work to achieve those effects when really it doesn't seem to take too long :)
Hi Adirana, I agree, you can get a long way pretty quickly with a gel plate working this way. even further if you have two on the go in tandem!!
Great video!
Your videos have inspired me to make my own gel plate and give it a go. Thank you!
Do it!!!
You are the bomb Yeates love all your videos
Lol, I've never been called the bomb before!
Have you thought about doing a clinic for gelli plate woes ? With everything you’ve learnt I bet you’d be able to do fantastic crits . Love love love the videos .
Hi Mary - how would that work, as a live thing?
@@yeatesmakes people could send you a photo of a (failed) print maybe with a question ,and you could comment . Perhaps at the end of a video?
wow. completely innovative and creative approach to stepping out of the gelli plate mold. Super direct and refreshing approach. Just wish i could draw.
Thanks, it's fun expanding your work surface, could jusr grow and grow!!! Sorry about the drawing, just enjoy line and marks...
Loved this!
: )
New and innovative work. Thanks
: )
Very interesting video! You are amazing
Cheers : )
Fantástico tutorial. Muy distinto a todos los que había visto antes. Excelente. Gracias por compartir, muchas gracias. Me he suscrito al canal.
Un saludo
Hola Maria, voy a intentar escribir en espanol - no hay muchas opportunidades para hacerlo en mi vida! Estoy muy feliz mi tutorial es distinto para ti y muchas gracias para su suscription y saludo
Hey Mark, just to let you know, and to give credit where it's due,...I was directed your way by Josh Bowe (who's obviously a fan of yours) and I'm so glad I followed his suggestion. The work he's doing with his multiple portraits is interesting and getting more so by the week (I forget what he calls it?). Anyway, cheers to the both of you!
Hi Susan, I check out his stuff. His videos are really interesting. cheers for the recommendation ; )
Appreciate and liking your very loose and artistic use of the gel plate. Thank you!
A pleasure!
your videos are amazing!
Cheers : ) Glad you're enjoying them!
Fabulous hints. Thanks
A pleasure Janet
Love the technique .
Cool : ) have fun with it!
Thank you ❤
Fantastic. What a great way to use the gel plate, so much potential (-: Marion
Cool! Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely tutorial, I’m off to find part two now,! love the soft colours, a challenge for me, I’m usually living more in the ‘smack you in the face colour palette. I’ll try something new. Thanks
Loads of scope for smack you in the face in part 2!!!!
Really interesting process, and I really love that your plate can be reused to amend/adjust/refine as you go along. A couple of questions…. Could this process work by making the plate on acetate instead of Perspex? And you mention hand tinting with watercolour as well. Do you have examples of this, and how does this work over acrylic? Do you add some medium to the watercolour? I have always loved the gritty rawness of markmaking with collagraph, though I am more familiar with a reductive process and your masking tape methods are additive, a process I have only seen with collage before. I really like the idea of masking tape, and the fineness of detail that is possible. I am serially watching your videos as they open up a lot of processes to me again, I am a cat owning wheelchair user, both of which limit me to some degree but everything about Gelli printing is accessible for me, and possible. Unlike many printing processes none of it involves excessive hand strength or bulky equipment! Or even specialist studio areas in your home… this is quite a game changer for a lot of people, and I am sure there are a lot of people out there who would find this fascinating.
Excellent!!
Cheers Dana : )
Really great! A list of acrylics that have worked for you besides Amsterdam would be so useful!
Daler Rowney graduate and system 3
Pebeo
Liquitex
@@yeatesmakes thank you so much! Very useful
FABULOUS!
Cheers Pasquale : )
I just love what you do with the Gelli plate, I like the masculine approach for a change! I am still trying to make a successful transfer, it is frustrating!🇨🇦
Have in there! Best advice is to keep the layers of paint thin.
Thank you for the lovely techniques. !
A pleasure Sherri
Very inspirational! I need to do some printing on the weekend … :-)
You could try getting an hour in on a week night!!!!1
I am getting great ideas for working on my jelli plates from your videos! Have saved all of them for future reference! unfortunately, not had a moment to reply to you as to my own images. But soon! I am really excited to try these techniques! As I live in the Pacific Northwest, where can I get some hesson material? I am not familiar with this material. But dashing right along:like the playing with the edges of the plate! I know there are differing terms (words for materials in Britian ), just not sure sometimes what is meant by the materials you describe. The one thing I wish to tell you is keep doing these videos, it is such a wonderful means of transforming gelli printing into art form beyond just doing journals and masses of wrapping paper delights! You go guy!
I live in the PNW, too (Everett, WA). "Hessian" is just daft Brit speak for burlap. (They have to make up their own words for things, for some reason. Quite adolescent, really.) :^D However, Mark also refers to a much looser-weave mesh as hessian, in this video. I'm not sure about this stuff.
I got some similar fiber mesh from Display and Costume (if you have one where you are), but it was quite grungy and ripped up. I think that stuff was a Halloween supply, but they may have similar, less-grungy mesh or net for other purposes. You might try asking for decorative fishing nets.
It also occurs to me that you could get a similar open-weave stuff by pulling a certain number of threads from ordinary burlap, the number depending on how open you want the resulting mesh to end up. You might want to stabilize the remaining intersections with glue, gel medium, or a small stitch, to keep the whole thing from falling apart. And you should count the threads as you choose which threads to pull, to make sure the remaining threads still weave over-under-over-under. (I /think/ you need to remove an even number between each "keeper" thread.) Hope this is useful!
I love this, burlap, hessian! And, Xenopticon's right, the piece of string mesh stuff wasn't even hessian. It's more like, well, string mesh stuff! From a haberdashery i think, or whatever it's called!
It was a joke. Thus, the weird emoticon following the comment.
The string mesh stuff might be rug hooking canvas.
Use the mesh bag that oranges or avocadoes sometimes come in.
Great stuff. 👍
Cheers Debbie!
Awesome
Wonderful…..a more painterly way of using the gel plate
Have you done a video using plant materials? I love your experimentation and would love to see what you'd come up with !
Ho Kathy, no, not done a plant materials video. I figured UA-cam was kind of saturated with them already!!!
Wow! Wonderful, thank you!
: ) Cheers Gay, hope you're surviving the kiwi winter.
@@yeatesmakes lol, let’s just say I’ll be glad when it’s spring!
Yer my new guru! Thank you...
Not sure I can live up to that title but certainly glad you find vids helpful!
@@yeatesmakes Aww, sorry! No pressure. I'm just very inspired by your demos, which integrate so many of the media I love to use. And your art work is very beautiful.
U r the best
Thank you
: )
That’s a good tip …how to rough up edges with torn paper. Thank you.
We all loves ripped edges, right!!!!
Love it! Thank you
Welcome, and thanks for message!
Maravilhoso
Yeates, AMAZING AMAZING WORK! Do you have to let the magazine transfers dry or can you pull the print wet? Also, each time you lay down textures or something to transfer, do you ahve to cover it with acrylic and let it dry before pulling the print?
Not always, but often the transfer process dries the paint quite a lot and they won't then transfer without a further layer. You just have to judge it!!!!!
Mark, question about terminology. You keep referring to “pulling off” an image from the gelli plate with “white” or “gray”, but don’t say what it is exactly. Is that a paint or a medium of some sort? Please clarify. I continue to love your posts!
Would definitely be white or grey acrylic paint : )
Merci beaucoup... À essayer et réessayer...
: ) you're welcome Stephanie
Found your channel through recommendation by Suzieq.makes. Just bought a gel press and am watching many tutorials on gel printing to learn tips and how to techniques. Have just subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the videos. I will follow along and learn things.
HI Catherine, welcome aboard. I'll be sure to give a shout out to Suzi q - thanks for letting me know: )
Greetings from down Under!
Very informative videos, been painting a long time, but haven't mastered the gelli plate, and having problems transferring glossy magazine images to the gelli plate.
Any suggestions?
Glossy mags and a thin layer of paint. It's hit and miss!!!! Good luck
We miss you, Mark.
I'll be back!
Hi, in your reply to one of the comments you mention using the right pen to draw over these backgrounds. What pen do you find the best for this? Thanks
Any waterproof, lightfast drawing pen wil do. You can buy them in sets with different nib width or individually in art shops : )
You rock man
|Lol! appreciated
You use cartridge paper, but it isn’t “archival.” Do you transfer images to Photoshop and use that to produce salable artwork?
Sometimes sell pieces on cartridge but make it clear it is not 'archival'. However, it is wood and acid free which means, kept out of direct light, it will not yellow or degrade over time
Are you drawing directly onto your gelli printed paper background?
Yep, provided you use the right pens, gel backgrounds are great for drawing on : )
What is cartridge paper?
Drawing paper : ) Sorry, haven't got my head around all the international lingo yet!
This is fantastic. Wish it wasn’t so fast though. It’s easier to FFWD a video ourselves if we want to, than slow one down & ruin the voiceover.
Hi Allison, I've been keeping it fast paced and packed with tips and details because some mentioned other videos on gel printing are often a bit slow and rambling! I'll bear it in mind and slow down a bit!
Not to confuse things, but I liked the pace - much easier to view and absorb than other videos. These are the most useful vids of any I’ve seen on this art form. Thanks so much for your generosity in making them 🙂
Gr8 video, thanks. Anyway you can slow them down a bit? Prevents us from rewatching so many times
sorry, I know this pair of vids was a little quick - had a lot to get in, planned on one, was too long so split them and then never really slowed it down enough! Feedback is on board!!
@Beth Miller You can choose you own prefered pase/speed, btw (Even for just a specific part of the video). Look for:
1) SETTING icon
2) Playback Speed
3) Automatically it is being set on NORMAL... 🤔 Lol... but you can choose
75%-50% (from my experience, lower than that is way tooooo sloooooooow
😅 but you do you. E-N-J-O-Y!
Awesome, i really enjoyed this.. but it does nothing to erase the childhood trauma of me being on your shoulders and you charging into a 15 foot wave in coogee bay.
Hi Mikey, we men are prone to exaggerating the size of things! xxxx
Eres un gran artista. Tienes grandes habilidades con gelli plate y demás posibilidades. Además muy sexy. Un viejo sesentón te admira desde islas Canarias..
Kinda rushed this one but I got good stuff from it. Thanks
Almost 1k yeates, before the start of school agian, mabye
: )
Not loud enough.
Hi Leela, apologies for volume, the videos I've made since early last year are louder - got a better mic!!!
Ha ha ha! Great! 👍 I’m an absolute beginner. Could use the movie in half tempo. 🤪🫣😅