A hack for printmaking! I LOVE this printing technique!
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- A demo and tutorial for those of you who love or want to get started with printmaking. Cheap, easy materials, no carving tools, no lino, no wood blocks or press needed! All you’ll need is an old bit of clear plastic, a craft knife, a roller, some water based ink and the magic ingredient!!!
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Don’t know why some people are complaining about the audio, I use ear buds and have no problem hearing you. I love that you are quiet and calm, there are more than enough loud, yakitty, yak videos out there!🇨🇦
Hi Cindy, this one is pretty quiet, made before I realised how low audio settings were. I'm a bit louder now but hopefully not too much yakkity gibber gabber!
This is genius. I appreciate that you are putting out accessible fine art content.
Cheers Carla - i love masking tape!!!!!
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Blown away by your patience and precision! Thanks for sharing these accessible techniques 😊
Mark, you are a breath of fresh air.
Cheers Philip, let me know what you want to see more of, happy to oblige!
Hello Mark, I so appreciate your videos, innovation, and presentation. Yes, a few rough patches but you get to the point without prattling on or singing etc unlike very many people do on their videos. I'm hard of hearing but have been able to get what you are saying. You are soft spoken. Love that you combine many techniques and ideas in a single video. Hopefully people realize they can tailor these to their own designs. Keep making these and sharing your creativity and enthusiasm.
Hi Susan, this was an early video, before I realised just how quiet I had the audio set!!!! Hopefully more recent vids are louder! Lovely feedback BTW, much appreciated. : )
Oh my Lord, you're so adept with a knife... and your drawing, so incredible! But THE PATIENCE!?!? 🤩🤗☺️
You, sir, are AMAZING. I'm absolutely gobsmacked! 💐🙏🏽 Thank you so much. It was a joy to watch your process. I carve large erasers or lino-stuff -- the largest at 5" x 7"... but this detail? I don't know that i could ever achieve this. Maybe one day I'll stand up to a more detailed challenge such as yours. Whew! 😅 Kudos! 💐💐💐
I'm just floored by all the awesome tutorials you have shared! Subscribed and been bingewatching... Thank you SO much! :D
Cheers for subscribing!!! Every bit helps. A pleasure to share and hope you get to experiment and make the techniques your own : )
Incredible work.
Extraordinary!
You are quite clever and generous. I appreciate your knowledge and sharing style, which has helped me not be so intimidated and actually try to produce the things I see in my mind's eye. God bless and thank you.
Love this
I love your work!❤
I DO LOVE yuor ART= WORK is amazing
Nice work!
Man this is just amazing! Great job.
Love your techniques. Going to try the masking tape thing. Thank you.
Great stuff...again!
This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this! I’ve never seen anything like this.
Amazing
First Time seeing this technique! This is a great idea! Love your art work!
Brilliant and so well narrated - discovered you today & I’m obsessed 🎉
Spectacular artwork. Thanks for sharing.
This was such a cool tutorial! Please keep making more.
Inspiring.
Amazing! You have the patience of a saint. Beautiful piece.
Absolutely brilliant! I am going to try this process! Great video! Love the channel ❤
Very impressive technique.
Wow you are so talented and very patient! What a great print!!! 👏👏👏
Cheers Christine, its actually a lot quicker than it looks : )
What a great technique - lovely way (with the lino/reduction) to be able to add in interesting areas of colours and/or texture. Someone told me about your demos and tutorials yesterday - and I'm so excited and inspired by the techniques I've seen so far - thank you for sharing your expertise
A crazy technique but cool! 👍
That is blooming incredible!!! Thank you so much 💕
Cheers Allison, gotta love masking tape!!!
your patience is world class my friend.....jeez
Awesome!
Cheers : )
Thanks for sharing your unique ideas and techniques that have an awesome results with the use of simple tools.
: ) A pleasure to share
Great video❤
Wow! Thank you!
Cheers Cathy, a pleasure!
OMG I cannot wait to try this technique!!! Thank you so much for sharing it
Best tip 0 get a sharp scalpel, craft knife. Blades get blunt quick!
Wow! Love you technic.
Thankyou, Cynthia. I've been mixing masking tape with loads of other print techniques. It's addictive! Will you be having a go?
Admiring your patience and innovation. You are one of a kind. Thank you 🙏🏼
: ) cheers
Amazing!!!!!!!
: ) such a fun, versatile technique, hipe you give it a go
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
: ) cheers Diane, hope you give it a try
fantastic method, beautiful work! I'd be really interested to see how you combine the masking tape and dry point in a single plate. I'm new to your channel so you may already have a vid on this! :)
This video opens up a new way!
Thank you.
Great news, I've had a lot of enjoyment with this was of printing over the years : )
Great technique, thanks! I do gel plate printing so I've subscribed and will definitely check out your other videos.
Hi Denise, yep, this is a really fun way to print, so versatile. If you have access to a press, it works really well with drypoint techniques to add areas textural / tonal contrast. Cheers for you support!!!
Good video yes very good yes
Cheers Monkeyboy!
Yor demos are great because you introduce everything and they are all well presented-
Thanks Cathy, that's lovely feedback
Such a variety of techniques. Love the textures. XXB
: ) cheers
So cool!! Love your prints!!! 👌👌👌 Subscribed.
Thanks Aino! lovely to have your support!!!
Yeah same
This is so awesome..
Cheers, very kind. This technique is loads of fun : )
Wow! So much work went into these and the result is just phenomenal. Really impressive work. I also have to say I'm in love with your drawings!
It's such a fun technique : ) Glad you found it useful
How therapeutic. Great technique and one I've not seen before. Thank you. Bx
Definitely therapeutic, until you've realised you've bitten off more than you can chew! Lovely sticking the last piece down and cracking on with a print though!
You are so clever. Amazing ideas and outcomes.
Cheers for support : )
This man is a very competent artist, great tutorial!
: ) Thank you
Special thanks for the idea of doubling the masking tape thickness! You give and give, ❣
You can three layers thick if there is a lot of negative space between shapes : )
I love your artwork. This technique seems very labor intensive, but the results are beautiful.
Thanks! I find this techniwque suits might mood sometimes, slows me down and very therapeutic!
Can’t wait to try this out on some photos or magazine pics
Have fun : )
Thank you
A pleasure : )
So this is essentially a form of collograph printing. I do similar using Matt board as the base. Very intricate!
Hi there, yep, its basically collagraph but feels somewhere between relief printing and collagraph when doing it!
@@yeatesmakes the lovely thing about collographs is they can be either relief or intaglio printed
This is an awesome alternative. Do you have a video on illustrating those scales on the dragon? Motif’s made easy 🤔
I want to go out ,but I keep watching your videos 😀 sublime
Lol! Get some fresh air Joyce!
You saved my day! I am not able to do lino’s anymore because of physical limitations. But this I cán do! Thank you so much!!
This message absolutely made my day. Let me know how the technique goes for you Tanja : )
I thought the magic ingredients were time...and Patience! It's always a wonderful treat watching you work. Thanks for your amazing tutorial! 🙂❤️🌠
Well, yep, they are certainly ingredients too!
OMG! I think I'd rather pluck out my spleen with an oyster fork ! It would be less painful than this printing technique. I really did like the end results though.....
Art teacher here. I was looking for a printmaking video to show my year 10s as my major is painting so I always try to find those better at printmaking than myself to introduce them to this amazing technique. I am blown away by this masking tape technique as I have never heard of it. And I am subscribing straightaway as your videos are gold! Thank you! I will be sharing your videos on my teams so my pupils can learn from you. Thank you so much!
Hi there, this is a cheap as chips technique for school : )
@@yeatesmakes Totally agree and thank you!!!!!
Hi, this is a great technique. Thanks. Also I can hear you fine. The quiet background is soothing.
That's good to know! not normally known for my soothing tone!
Dude! What did I tell you? Best gelli techniques ever and now this? Oh my! I am getting out my masking tape now! Thank you so much.
Masking tape is boss Kay, good for skirting boards too! If you're in US, I think you call it a baseboard or mop board!!
Great video thank you for sharing,tried once with interesting result will keep at it.
Pleased you had a go, it’s actually really versatile stuff to print from : )
Wow!
Masking tape is a fiend to all of us : )
Nice
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Super tutorial. Looks a little labouriourious but I get the idea of it. Thanks
cheers peter. as with anything, it gets easier and quicker with a bit of practice : )
Hi! Greetings from Germany 😊. I like your artwork (correct word?😂) and you are very sympathetic. How many times can I use this?
Your videos and techniques are great! I predict your channel is going to grow VERY rapidly. I hope you're prepared for the sudden success! ;^) (I do agree about the audio, but you've probably heard that a lot, by now.) A couple of printmaking matters to mention:
First thing is inking technique: Consider lifting the brayer between each stroke. This will more efficiently distribute the ink around the entire roller surface, than if you just roll back-and-forth, with constant contact with the inking surface. It also makes it easier to distribute the ink in a thin layer on the inking surface, and prevents developing a repeat pattern of varying ink density on either the slab, the brayer, or the printing matrix. Rolling faster tends to pick up ink (as when inking the brayer). Rolling slowly deposits ink (as on the plate).
Second, you'll be able to maintain your blended roll better if you can use a brayer that is at least as wide as your plate's narrowest dimension (or size your prints to the circumference of your brayer). Such tools may be less common, and can be pricier, so I offer a workaround: You could begin by turning the brayer (or inking slab) to ink one end of the brayer with one color (eg, your red), and roll that down on the outermost print area of your plate, where you want the purest area of that color.
Then, turn the brayer (or inking slab) to ink only the other end, with the second color (eg, your black). Ink the outermost area of your plate for that color, letting the red end of the brayer hang off your plate. Finally, after the areas of purest color are thoroughly inked, then center and roll your brayer through the blended area on your slab and ink the corresponding area of your print.
Ideally, you'd have a brayer that is as wide as one dimension of your plate, and whose circumference is at least as great as the the other plate dimension. The large circumference is intended to prevent the brayer picking up the pattern of one part of the plate (actually, the inverse of the pattern) and transferring it to other parts of the plate. I only mention this as the ideal tool, in case you or your viewers can come up with a common and affordable solution that can produce similar results. Large-diameter ink rollers are pricey, and I'd love to find an affordable substitute!
Keep up your excellent work! It's great to have found you so early in the life of your channel. I will be bingeing everything you've posted, so far, and will continue following your work. You have great ideas and a wonderful style, full of grit. I much appreciate your contributions!
Hi there, thanks for all the feedback. My family had a real chuckle at your predictions!!!
My main aim has been to get through a tough patch personally and do something useful with my energy. I've also wanted to pitch possibilities for home print making with the most accessible equipment. I've been reluctant to do things on the press or with large brayers for that reason - assuming most people just want to get a half decent result on their kitchen tables!!! Having said that, your advice is worth heeding for all approaches / equipment. I do need to pay more attention to how inking up is presented!!! I often put these parts on timelapse to speed vids along!!! Again, thanks, amazing to get such feedback. i hadn't anticipated such meaningful contact with total strangers would be a feature of posting - it's really interesting and gratifying.
@@yeatesmakes Yeah, I noticed as I watched more vids that your inking technique is much more consistent with practices I was taught. I must've just caught the one where you lapsed, momentarily. : D
I do generally try to give meaningful and specific feedback. However, I also feel a bit connected to you, for some reason. Maybe partly because I've also had serious hard times, before, and I see something in your face. But also because I really admire what I see in your style of art, your way of working, the collaborative ideas you come up with, and the care you put into your videos (like pretty rigorous editing, and speeding up the tedious parts). Your delivery is a very fine combination of warmth, clarity, precision, and easy accessibility.
I've been occasionally tracking your subscriber numbers, and it still appears to me that you're going to need to be prepared for at least a modicum of change in your life. If you keep up your productions (and I seriously hope you will!), I think you'll see that these are the early points of a geometrically-accelerating curve. Genuine contributions such as yours attract notice and appreciative viewers. I very much hope the work you're doing here is helping you through your rough patch.
PS: If you could come up with a decent DIY brayer with a large diameter and dense, smooth surface, that would also be a great contribution! I've been noodling on that one for some time, now.
@@Xenopticon DIY silicone set in a tube with a smaller tube inset for wire handle?
Blown away by your Art, I am usually Acrylic or watercolour painting but found my small Gelli plate and your ideas and skill makes it look 😉 so much fun ! Saying that was bit frustrated can't seem to find a magazine that will leave an impression 😕 do you use ordinary Acrylic paint or printing ink 🤔 Love ,love, love your video's I think the dragon was Magical xxxShaz 🐲🐲🐲
Thank you, I've been going through so many techniques and this one I want to try. Hot glue gun didn't work for what I wanted and I even tried some glue, the lines weren't crisp enough, this looks like it might be what I want. Really cool work.
Have a go, its a bit tough on your hands, but well worth the time and effort : )
Great alternative to expensive linoleum tiles. Could you also just cover a whole piece of something with say 2 layers of masking tape, transfer the drawing (pencil from tracing paper upside down) to the masking tape, then use Xacto knife to cut away pieces? Trying to find a cheap way to do with my middle schoolers when they ruin their linoleum blocks on purpose. They get "the tape".
LOL!!, although I would never feel hard done by 'getting the tape'!!!!!! Your suggestion works fine BTW, I've tried it. You just have to make sure you do apply your tape to thick plastic or perspex as the blade tends to go through acetate as well as tape with the method you suggest : )
This was my thinking exactly. Using glass which won't scratch or cut, from an old frame. I suspect it would get fiddly to pick up and place nicely if as fine and perforated as the example, I think warping would be the risk. Unless your base layer on the glass of tape doesn't have a removable backing, which would perhaps be ideal. This technique was mew to me, very cool. Masking tape is handy in art in SO many ways!
Thanks for yet another informative video. I enjoyed watching and commend your patience, but have to say this is one technique I will never try as I do not have the patience!
LOL Sheryl : ) I know its not for everybody but really appreciate the kind comment!!!!!
Aww, MARK!! So great to see you. You look amazing, practically Canadian with your toque and lumberjack beard.
xx cheers Kathryn - this is EASY to do with hardly any equipment
this is great Mark but I don't have the patience to do this.
You can do some really quick, expressive plates...
Only about a third of the way through the video, and really enjoying watching you do this. But also very sure that I don't have the patience to do this myself, at least not with such a detailed design. Still great to watch though!
Hi PJ, definitely need some patience for this. However, it is very meditative once you get past the fiddly bits! Also, you can produce a simple design really quickly, maybe a little stamp to make a repeat print across a piece as a layer, that works well. Cheers for the support : )
@@yeatesmakes I agree, very meditative ... watching you do it!! Lol! Am in the middle of moving at the moment, but I will likely give it a try sometime in future, especially if you keep showing how we can get such great results with just masking tape.
Hi Ig, sorry about the audio. I will buy a decent mic soon!
I love this! I really struggle with carving lino these days, which used to be my favourite thing to do since college.
Now I'm really excited to try this out.
It looks like you could easily register more colours on different sheets of plastic too? If you positioned the masking tape different on each layer.
Hi there, it works well as a lino substitute. Also works really well with lino in separate layers - I'm making a vid on that process next : )
i need that knife!!!
You can still buy them, I'm sure. Search up steel handle scalpel or craft knife
This is an amazing video. Thanks for sharing. I'm just getting into printing with gelli, great tips.
How long did the dragon take? And did you manage to get multiple prints? How many?
Those are great! The cassette tape print was really cool!
Off topic-- did you narrate a libravox recording of Great Expectations (??) because it sounds JUST like you.
Cheers.
Lol! no, that wasn't me!! i am going to revisit that cassette tape idea for a video on masking tape and dry point techniques one day : )
Not up for trying the masking tape method at your level of detail and skill, but enjoying learning the process. Will adapt as needed.
Thanks 😉
It's so versatile! If you like gel plate, then a vid I posted a couple of weeks back has a fun technique I just worked out using masking tape plate as a kind of collagraph stamp. Loads of fun and I'm planning lots of pieces!
I wonder which one that was. There are so many of your wonderful videos. I go round and round looking at them, and occasionally trying things. Comforting through hard times, for sure. Thank you.
Love the work you've shown here, I really love the dragon actually. I started drawing a dragon years ago and never finished it, maybe I should get on it. It didn't seem like you wet your paper first, what do you think of wetting it vs not wetting it?
Hi Penny, sorry to have left your question hanging so long! No need to wet paper for relief block printing, I only so that for intaglio / etching : )
@@yeatesmakes Okay, thank you!
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Really Nice to Sachs. How did you do the landscape you showed us, with the various depths of black?
Hi there, that was a dry point / masking tape collagraph combo. Video coming on that technique soon : )
Awesome! I'm curious how long it took you to create the tape image on the acetate.
Probably about 1 and half hours... didn't really keep track which is a good sign I guess!!!
Hi Mark, great video, thanks!! one question though on the masking tape - the surface of the tape you are using looks quite smooth - smoother than standard paper-masking tape. Is this masking tape you are using made of paper or pvc (or another material)? Thanks again!!
Hi Annita, thanks for the comment. The tape is just standard Scotch brand paper masking tape : )
use a nice press like The Kanga Press
Ran out of time earlier.
I did one print using the masking tape. It works, but I was using too much energy instead of letting the blade do the work. I also found that the smell of the tape kind of bugged me. With normal use, it's not particularly noticeable, but working with it for a couple of hours af a time...
So here's what I did. I got some adhesive backed cork sheets, and used them like the masking tape. I did a few test prints today. The paint (Speedball) was drying too fast, and the cork both "ate" the ink because of the nooks and crannies in the surface, and sort of repelled the water based ink. Maybe the i nk is floating on the surface. I'm not sure. I added transparent base for silk screen, and the ink flowed better and was able to sink into the recessed areas of the cork.
Anyway, I just finished gluing the print block to fortify it because it's made of book board. I also put a layer of glue on the cork. I hope I didn't mess it up. I like the cork bc there's no odor, and suface is raised higher than even 3 layers of tape. So thanks again for this technique! Let me know if you'd like a pic.
Hi A.R. - this sounds fascinating, please send a pic to markyeatsart@hotmail.com
I enjoy your videos and am fascinated by this technique. I have little experience of block printing so my question is - how much quicker is this method than cutting a 'lino' block?
Perhaps some people would be more encouraged by an example that doesn't use such a dauntingly accomplished design as a starting point. Your evident drawing skills give you a head start on many of us! Thanks for your videos.
Hi there - there's prob not much in it. I don't use the masking tape to avoid lino, more because it offers a different way of getting to an outcome and they have a unique look of their own. Really appreciate the feedback on complexity of image. I'll think on a simpler design to introduce the technique!!
Hi there - there's prob not much in it. I don't use the masking tape to avoid lino, more because it offers a different way of getting to an outcome and they have a unique look of their own. Really appreciate the feedback on complexity of image. I'll think on a simpler design to introduce the technique!!
Would you bother to varnish or shellac the plate or will the acrylic hot it together for future pulls?
Hi Bixxy, have never bothered sealing masking tape plates, they hold up surprisingly well and I usually just do a short edition then move on, itchy feet!!!
@@yeatesmakes dont I know that one. Especially gel printing ...start with an idea and whoosh get side tracked (about 20 times) and rarely get back to square one Oh what fun we have...😂
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has anyone complimented you on the lovely fencing?
LOL!!! No, I don't think so! Glad you appreciate it though! It's actually the back and side walls of a big corner arbour and bench I designed and made with my youngest daughter - it's a peaceful spot :)
QUESTION UP TO HOW MANY PRINTS YOU CAN CREATE FROM THIS PLATE????
I have printed 20 from this plate : )
How long did it take you to cut all those shapes for the dragon?
90 minutes, 2 hours maybe???
This is lovely and the work is impressive, but it’s not quick at all or anything that could be considered a “hack”. A typical linocut by itself takes far fewer steps.
Recreating the entire piece with several layers of masking tape requires an initial drawing, a transfer onto plastic, a redrawing of the individual shapes, cutting them all out and fidgeting them into place, and then finally printing them.
I guess in saying 'hack' I meant a workaround for printing that you could do with equipment that is easier / cheaper to get hold of. I get your point about in not being quick though!
Hi Eli's dad
Hi Eli's mate. Glad to hear you feeling better!
maaaaaan...this is really beautiful . . . buuuuuuut....a hack?????
Hack.... as in you can do it on the cheap!!! Not all hacks are time saving!!!!! : )