I think the gel plate really encourages innovation and experimentation. Glad you're enjoying the vids and thanks again for all the engaging comments. : )
Just bought a gel plate and started fooling with it. Your videos have been a huge inspiration for where to go with it. Thanks so much and please keep up the good work!
I thought it was over after the first pull. Every one was even more astonishing. I know when something is great when I gasp at the pull. This was a three gasp video. You are amazing.
I'm an Advanced Prep art teacher (high school), and I plan on showing some of these videos and techniques to my class. Great stuff. Easy to follow, and adaptable to many different art styles and ability levels. Keep up the excellent work!
Just recently started jail plates and have been doing abstracts and landscapes but I love this embossed Printing and will be trying these very shortly I especially love this old man that you've done and I love your work
Thanks to Engelhafen for this suggestion! Excellent idea! All three of these works are lovely, but the one with the colored layers is spectacular! I think if you used carbon paper or a product called Saral for your transfer, you could deepen your emboss a bit as you transferred, rather than having to flatten it with the graphite rubbing on the back. Besides being an Indian food brand as well as a cooperative Indian/French space agency initiative, Saral is a chalky, non-waxy, near-equivalent to carbon paper, available in multiple colors (including graphite), depending on the color of the surface to which you are transferring. A 12" roll, 3 feet long, costs about US $12, at Dick Blick. A 12-foot roll is available at the online behemoth rain forest retailer, for a dollar or three more. I assume Saral (or some equivalent) is available across the pond. The short rolls seem pricey, to me; but it does go a long way because each piece you tear off can be used multiple times, as with carbon paper. Push come to shove, however, you could use graphite rubbing and still preserve your original emboss by applying the graphite to a different piece of tissue or other very thin paper, placed under your embossed sheet. If you required more accuracy, for some other use, tape it in place. Thanks for another great video and the gorgeous art you add to our world!
Fantastic suggestions, as always. I'm going to look into Saral paper, not come across it yet. Comments sections are giving me so much to think about and sincere thanks to you for always contributing and offering advice, ideas and expertise. : )
Tried this with my grandson aged 11. He has great patience and concentration and achieved a fantastic result first time! He drew freehand, copying your drawing. Really worked hard on the biro embossing. Thank you again.
Thank you, that's a good tip - I will try 😃. I always have problems with Laserprint-transfer on gleliplate, my results are faint, not intensive enough. My ruse is to use your ballpoint-embossing-technic for the important lines on the laserprint. So I get a print which is a mixture of drawing-transfer (ballpoint) and transfer of tones of the laserprint in one process.
I've recently tried using three sheets for embossing. It gives good depth and you can also cover the underneath of the middle sheet in oil pastel, so whatever lines you draw out to emboss on the top sheet transfers to the bottom one - plus the middle sheet also gets embossed, so you can reuse it for an extra couple of lifts.
It has mixed results depending on what image you use - I tried something far too complicated first time, so it took ages, but was worth it for the results. It comes up great with nice chunky lines (like comic book type stuff) and is also surprisingly responsive to different levels of pressure for detail/lettering.
Nearly forgot - if you hold the middle sheet and top sheet up to the light, you can trace the different areas out in pastel on the back. Alternatively, you can reverse print an image and put the pastel straight onto it - which is quicker.
I bought a geli plate awhile ago and couldn't get any transfer techniques to work. I tried again after watching your videos and had I little better results. But your drawing transfers really inspired me. I was able to get a really good image off of a drawing made with charcoal pencil. It resisted pulling ink off the plate very similar to your pastel drawings. Thanks for posting these videos! They're great instructionals. And your finished work is wonderful.
I like the alcohol marker print as the faint color is not overwhelming the portrait. Not only do you provide a few different looks you educate about the artists who inspire you. Thanks again.
Hi Susan, yes, those markers!!! i love 'em. Particularly the pastel and muted tones and colours, really cool for drawing and mixed media. Thanks for kind words : )
Sos un genio soy de Argentina acá no se vende la placa de gel así que la hice casera tuve suerte y salió bien ahora gracias a tus videos estoy practicando en mí tesis para recibirme de artes visuales estoy usando está técnica me estás ayudando mucho gracias por ser tan generoso y compartir tu saber cariñosssss ❤️👏👏👏😍
@@yeatesmakes Appreciate your reply. Haven't done the emboss yet. I do want to make sure not to leave ink on the plate so am thinking of using a pen with no ink :) or some other tool. I love your channel, the experimentation, all the ideas!
Easter break over, hitting the gel plate on Monday when grand baby returns to school, thanks for more inspiration considering a Monet water lily transfer
I love your innovative experimental approach to gel printing. Thank you so much for everything you have posted. You've transformed my perception of what one can do with a gel plate!
That's FANTASTIC!! I LOVE IT! So great to watch an artist in action, and I really love your ideas and your steps along the way to wonderful finished products! I also love your social conscience. Thanks for sharing your skills will us. 👍🙏❤️
That’s fantastic , I watched a video yesterday a guy put a picture under the gell plate then painted the scene on top then used a a canvas on the top and transferred the picture Then added a little more paint to touch up but he used golden open because it has more time to work with ,
Fabulous liberating technique you show here. It could be taken in many directions. I have drawn into wet gesso in the past. Wonder how that would work. I don't think it would be as sharp as ballpoint but it could produce an interesting result on the transfer copy and the gelli plate.
I've drawing into wet gesso then used a graphite stick to pick up relief detail. never thought to transfer a print from it though.... great suggestion!!! That's why having channel for experimenting is so rewarding, you guys often suggest fantastic ideas!!!
@@yeatesmakes I love the interaction. I don't do as much art as I used to and watching people get good results on video gets the brain working, thanks.
Wow! LOVE this video so much!! 300 gsm paper is expensive stuff so I am going to try this embossing technique with a watercolor paper that isn't quite as heavy and hope it works, too. I trained aa a printmaker years go focusing on both etching and lithography. I am blown away by the amazing variety of ways you combine materials and techniques so that your prints look so much like traditional etchings. Bravo, Good Sir! Thank you so much!!
Cheers Carolyn, lighter paper works. Just watch using watercolour paper as the heavier tooth on the surface means you can get a more uneven pick up of ink, although, that can look cool!!
@@yeatesmakes Mark, I goofed! I was thinking GSM was the same as pounds so thought you meant 300 lb. watercolor paper. I looked up GSM so get it now. Will try with a smooth 250-300 gsm paper. Thank you for your guidance re. the watercolor paper texture!!
I tried your technique. Honked up the first pull, I mixed gel medium with acrylic and used too much so half of the pull stuck to the plate. But prints 2 and 3 came out amazingly well. Found a picture of an Archer fish xray which was a good beginner sketch. Thank you for your videos, you are very talented.
Another great video. I got quite good prints from the dry ballpoint technique, but my goodness it is inhibiting to have to press that hard! I saw the wet paper technique on Art Prof, but did not think I could do with all the soaking and sloshiness, she also washes her roller, and I cannot mess around with water much, though I loved her results and appreciated her fine art perspecive, as I do yours. I was SO glad to see a drier version! Once more your minimal no fuss approach finds a happy medium for me. I am also very thankful for the heads up on the Amsterdam black, which I will be definitely trying. Am also going to be experimenting with a mix of fast and slow drying acrylics, fast for the under layers, and very opaque and very transparent ones too. For some reason nearly all my golden opens, which are around five years old, are transparent so .I must have had something similar in mind back then for painting, underpainting in fast drying and then glazing, so I am going to see how this does in Gelli print, with landscape to test the process. Also take it slooow, and see whether I can then over print with painted on fast dry opaques. Or even metallics. I have been really liking handpainting the plate so this video of yours sparked of some process ideas as I watched your handpainting bead up a bit. Remembering back I think when I bought these acrylics I had been looking at work made by someone using Perspex and a different kind of printing ink, and I thought it possible to replicate something of that persons process but not the style, as a very home based process rather than a studio one, as I had just become a powerchair user. I forgot till today just how easy it is to forget why you buy art supplies! It is always easier to create in your mind than it is in reality. I really appreciate your no fuss minimum of mess approach, it makes so many things possible. You are already sharing techniques for transparent approaches, so thought maybe the idea that these could be extended might be of interest. I really also enjoyed the Klee and Matisse videos for similar reasons. Thank you too for the idea that the plate is not necessarily a static object!
What a wonderful message Lindy, thanks. Giving me loads to think about - golden open paints were on my list but you've just bumped them to the front of my mind! So glad you're making things in a home setting too, I've tried to keep that in mind when making all the videos at my own kitchen table - most of us don't have the luxury of a studio space!!!! And, thanks so much for reinforcing the idea that gel plate is not a static object - its transparency means you can do so much with it!!!!
@@yeatesmakes my son bought me my little 6x6 and got me a Perspex mount for it, I have been playing with it, and loving being able to place the Gelli more accurately, so I just got onefor my 8x10 from a company called Clarity stamps. They have an extra half inch all round great for picking the whole thing up, and have some guide lines including diagonals. If I were handy or more adventurous I would make my own and maybe score the guidelines in….. or even just use an indelible pen on the wrong side. it would be easy if you got the Perspex cut for you, it pretty much allows you to print anyway you want, walls, you name it, so long as it is flat…. I like the way I can quickly flip it over, also I can see what it looks like in reverse…. I am thinking that the size of the plate need not inhibit the size of the finished piece either, you just have to plan a bit…. The golden are lovely. I think I was going to have a go with caligo but the clean up looked rather formidable ….. so I got them instead… well, if the open had not worked for print I would have painted with them instead! With your bigger plate I think you might enjoy the longer drying time, if it takes too long then I think you could play around with adding a regular acrylic to adjust it to the kind of time you like working with. I thought with some of your more complex stuff it could give you the extra time you need for placement…
i love your work and have learned alot. I was thinking that maybe if you sprayed your embossed plate with a water proof varnish, back and front, it might make it stronger and it would last longer and you'd be able to clean it with alcohol based hand gel
Your videos are SO inspiring! I should be inking new illutrations right now, but all I wanna do and can think about is doing the collage-and-cut technique with all those gorgeous layers and my gelli plate. Thanks so much for sharing your experiments. Just like with ballet I prefer the hard work of the training to the performance.
Another wonderful technique. Great prints with very different feel to each. Assume you left the watercolor paper til bone dry on the line 😎 Will now go look up the photographer. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Kate - the technique has legs. Just been recording some video of experimenting with more expressive ballpoint work on damp paper. Going well so far!
hey cool guy, I am going to try this certainly, do not worry, I save your videos and watch them 2 or 3 times, just to let them sink in. S0 glad to have found your work and videos! Just think your work is so interesting.
Hi and Happy New Year! What paper did you use for the embossed drawing ? I know it was 300gsm hot press . Additionally, what paper do you prefer to use to pull your prints. Thanks so much for the information. I just donated to your PayPal. I appreciate all that you do.
Thanks so much for the donation, it will keep me stocked up in art supplies!!!! I used Fabriano 4 paper to emboss with - the stuff I usually soak for a drypoint print. I print onto all sorts but mainly smooth cartridge papers around 200gsm, deli paper and, more recently, Ho-Sho that I normally lino print on : )
I’m glad it worked out. I appreciate all the work you do on these videos and feel you are a kindred spirit because I’m experimenting constantly.
I think the gel plate really encourages innovation and experimentation. Glad you're enjoying the vids and thanks again for all the engaging comments. : )
i love the way you explore gellis… so different from everyone. thank you!
Cheers, its a fun bit of equipment : )
You ARE THE Master of experimentation! I am super inspired & grateful.
Just bought a gel plate and started fooling with it. Your videos have been a huge inspiration for where to go with it. Thanks so much and please keep up the good work!
Hey Eric, have fun, and let me know how it goes!
Lee jeffries is fantastic an a real inspirator for drawings, indeed!
Thank you for all the ideas how to use the gel plate!!!👏🏼👍✍️
He's great and his photos are really lovely to work from : )
I thought it was over after the first pull. Every one was even more astonishing. I know when something is great when I gasp at the pull. This was a three gasp video. You are amazing.
Hi Elizabeth, lovely to know you're still tuning in : )
@@yeatesmakes Of COURSE!!!
I'm an Advanced Prep art teacher (high school), and I plan on showing some of these videos and techniques to my class. Great stuff. Easy to follow, and adaptable to many different art styles and ability levels. Keep up the excellent work!
A pleasure to share :) thanks for taking the time to comment
thank you for introducting Lee Jeffries ,His work is so emotinal ♥️also great tip
He's a great photographer. I think his actual prints are silverplate so I'd love to see them in person.
Just recently started jail plates and have been doing abstracts and landscapes but I love this embossed Printing and will be trying these very shortly I especially love this old man that you've done and I love your work
Thanks to Engelhafen for this suggestion! Excellent idea!
All three of these works are lovely, but the one with the colored layers is spectacular! I think if you used carbon paper or a product called Saral for your transfer, you could deepen your emboss a bit as you transferred, rather than having to flatten it with the graphite rubbing on the back. Besides being an Indian food brand as well as a cooperative Indian/French space agency initiative, Saral is a chalky, non-waxy, near-equivalent to carbon paper, available in multiple colors (including graphite), depending on the color of the surface to which you are transferring. A 12" roll, 3 feet long, costs about US $12, at Dick Blick. A 12-foot roll is available at the online behemoth rain forest retailer, for a dollar or three more. I assume Saral (or some equivalent) is available across the pond. The short rolls seem pricey, to me; but it does go a long way because each piece you tear off can be used multiple times, as with carbon paper.
Push come to shove, however, you could use graphite rubbing and still preserve your original emboss by applying the graphite to a different piece of tissue or other very thin paper, placed under your embossed sheet. If you required more accuracy, for some other use, tape it in place.
Thanks for another great video and the gorgeous art you add to our world!
Thank you so much! So much potential with this!!!
Fantastic suggestions, as always. I'm going to look into Saral paper, not come across it yet. Comments sections are giving me so much to think about and sincere thanks to you for always contributing and offering advice, ideas and expertise. : )
Whee! Never heard of Saral but will definitely check it out. Thanks so much for telling us about it.
Those are great ... than you for sharing. That third pull is truly magical.
Cheers Bernice, was shocked how clean these emboss images come up - damp paper definitely helps : )
Great tip indeed ! Thanks for the video again, made my sunday breakfast very happy.!
Hi Marijke, glad it improved your breakfast. Let me know how experiments go!
Tried this with my grandson aged 11. He has great patience and concentration and achieved a fantastic result first time! He drew freehand, copying your drawing. Really worked hard on the biro embossing. Thank you again.
That's lovely to hear Janet, glad the technique worked for you both
I love the last one with the alcohol markers!
Those Promarkers are amazing to drawing with and work well with acrylic on paper : )
Thank you, that's a good tip - I will try 😃.
I always have problems with Laserprint-transfer on gleliplate, my results are faint, not intensive enough. My ruse is to use your ballpoint-embossing-technic for the important lines on the laserprint. So I get a print which is a mixture of drawing-transfer (ballpoint) and transfer of tones of the laserprint in one process.
That's a really good idea - I'm gonna try myself!!!
Every time I watch you I am just stunned by your talent... thx for sharing 🤩
Cheers Reni - lovely comment and particularly appreciated because I know you've been tuning in and supporting the channel for a number of months : )
Thank you from California for a great demo! I will show it to my students
Wow, cheers Evgenia, what a lovely compliment, to share my ideas with your pupils : )
I've recently tried using three sheets for embossing. It gives good depth and you can also cover the underneath of the middle sheet in oil pastel, so whatever lines you draw out to emboss on the top sheet transfers to the bottom one - plus the middle sheet also gets embossed, so you can reuse it for an extra couple of lifts.
Ooh, nice idea! I like it!!
Echoing Saffrance, excellent idea!
It has mixed results depending on what image you use - I tried something far too complicated first time, so it took ages, but was worth it for the results. It comes up great with nice chunky lines (like comic book type stuff) and is also surprisingly responsive to different levels of pressure for detail/lettering.
Definitely interesting 👍
Nearly forgot - if you hold the middle sheet and top sheet up to the light, you can trace the different areas out in pastel on the back. Alternatively, you can reverse print an image and put the pastel straight onto it - which is quicker.
I bought a geli plate awhile ago and couldn't get any transfer techniques to work. I tried again after watching your videos and had I little better results. But your drawing transfers really inspired me. I was able to get a really good image off of a drawing made with charcoal pencil. It resisted pulling ink off the plate very similar to your pastel drawings. Thanks for posting these videos! They're great instructionals. And your finished work is wonderful.
Thanks for demonstrating this, I had no idea I could use the plate this way!
No problem Jayne, those gel plates can be used in SO many ways!!!!
This is so inspiring and informative. Thank you for sharing your talent and enthusiasm.
I cannot begin to explain how inspirational these videos are. You are a very fine artist and I look forward to more from you.
Thanks so much Russell, that's lovely encouragement and motivation to keep going : )
I second Russell's comment, Mark. You are mind blowing in the depth & breadth of your ways of working. So truly inspirational to watch you work. ❤️
I like the last one you did the best. Just enough free flowing color to add a little bit of life to the image.
Cheers Shirley : ) was a fun experiment
I like the alcohol marker print as the faint color is not overwhelming the portrait. Not only do you provide a few different looks you educate about the artists who inspire you. Thanks again.
Hi Susan, yes, those markers!!! i love 'em. Particularly the pastel and muted tones and colours, really cool for drawing and mixed media. Thanks for kind words : )
beautiful. really like the third one, with the all the colour.
Great tip. Each print interesting and exciting. Love the marker one especially. Bx
Love those promarkers, so good for layering up : )
Thank you for sharing these experiments in technique. I enjoyed this very much. The collaboration was a great success 😊
Sos un genio soy de Argentina acá no se vende la placa de gel así que la hice casera tuve suerte y salió bien ahora gracias a tus videos estoy practicando en mí tesis para recibirme de artes visuales estoy usando está técnica me estás ayudando mucho gracias por ser tan generoso y compartir tu saber cariñosssss ❤️👏👏👏😍
Suerte a ti para tu tesis. : ) x
Como me encanteria ver tus imagines del tesis! Hice mi bachillar en grabado en Mexico hace mucho. Este estudio me cambio la vida! Felicidades!!
I'm going to try it! Yours turned out great.
Let me know how it goes : )
@@yeatesmakes Appreciate your reply. Haven't done the emboss yet. I do want to make sure not to leave ink on the plate so am thinking of using a pen with no ink :) or some other tool. I love your channel, the experimentation, all the ideas!
Easter break over, hitting the gel plate on Monday when grand baby returns to school, thanks for more inspiration considering a Monet water lily transfer
Lots of ideas spinning around, will get to them eventually. I could make vids all day but have a few other responsibilities!!!
Your “experiments” are simply cool…(that coming from this 78 year old)
Your experiments are very helpful when wanting to try new techniques myself. Thank you!
I love your innovative experimental approach to gel printing. Thank you so much for everything you have posted. You've transformed my perception of what one can do with a gel plate!
Lovely to hear Jeka : ) There will be more coming!
That's FANTASTIC!! I LOVE IT! So great to watch an artist in action, and I really love your ideas and your steps along the way to wonderful finished products! I also love your social conscience. Thanks for sharing your skills will us. 👍🙏❤️
What a cool technique! I just got a gelli plate and brayer. This excites me even more to start creating!
Hope it goes well Amy : )
Great stuff - I've used your original ballpoint transfer technique, I'll have to try this variation 👍
Works a treat!
Omgosh I love this technique 😮 thanks for sharing ❤
That’s fantastic , I watched a video yesterday a guy put a picture under the gell plate then painted the scene on top then used a a canvas on the top and transferred the picture Then added a little more paint to touch up but he used golden open because it has more time to work with ,
I need to try and extender / retarder... it's on my list! Cheers for suggestion Joyce : )
@@yeatesmakes yes I asked the question because I don’t want to buy golden open too expensive for me gell art said use an extender .
Really inspiring great ideas! Thank you so much! I am going to order a gel plate now 🙂
Takes a while to get used to but - sure you won't regret it
Fabulous liberating technique you show here.
It could be taken in many directions.
I have drawn into wet gesso in the past. Wonder how that would work.
I don't think it would be as sharp as ballpoint but it could produce an interesting result on the transfer copy and the gelli plate.
I just might try that. Thanks for the idea!
I've drawing into wet gesso then used a graphite stick to pick up relief detail. never thought to transfer a print from it though.... great suggestion!!! That's why having channel for experimenting is so rewarding, you guys often suggest fantastic ideas!!!
@@yeatesmakes I love the interaction. I don't do as much art as I used to and watching people get good results on video gets the brain working, thanks.
This is so inspiring! Just got my gel plate and can't wait to try this. Thank you!
Best of luck with it Emily, let me know if it works for you : )
Absolutely LOVE your videos. Thanks for being so generous in sharing your process and your work. 😍
A pleasure Angela, thanks for taking time to comment : )
So good, thanks very much. I am just starting my gel plate adventures and this video certainly expands my plans and ideas for using it. Thanks again
Its really versatile, feel I'm only just scratching the surface of what it can do
Wow! LOVE this video so much!! 300 gsm paper is expensive stuff so I am going to try this embossing technique with a watercolor paper that isn't quite as heavy and hope it works, too.
I trained aa a printmaker years go focusing on both etching and lithography. I am blown away by the amazing variety of ways you combine materials and techniques so that your prints look so much like traditional etchings. Bravo, Good Sir! Thank you so much!!
Cheers Carolyn, lighter paper works. Just watch using watercolour paper as the heavier tooth on the surface means you can get a more uneven pick up of ink, although, that can look cool!!
@@yeatesmakes Mark, I goofed! I was thinking GSM was the same as pounds so thought you meant 300 lb. watercolor paper. I looked up GSM so get it now. Will try with a smooth 250-300 gsm paper. Thank you for your guidance re. the watercolor paper texture!!
Awesome experiment and love zone sharing and building oFf of what others share and find! Kudos to you both!
Cheers Kat, its been lovely finding a little community who give so much back in comments and suggestions : )
Great video! Got to try this method, thanks for sharing with us!
Its fun, and versatile, just finished filming another vid where I try much more expressive drawing with this damp embossing. Works well!
Always excited when you post new video. This is just so COOL! Your experimental efforts are so enlightening and spur me to keep pushing👍👍👍 Thanks!
Cheers Melissa, so glad you're enjoying the vids : )
Hi Mark- another very interesting experiment. Very good suggestion and a new challenge for you:) Thank you for taking the time to show us this. Gabi x
Cheers Gabi, was a fun one to make : )
All fab as usual, but I really loved the last one.
Cheers Venta : )
I love the black background with the white lines also. Fabulous job. Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦
You're right, the emboss itself can look interesting. Might be worth painting into for a separate piece...
I love your work! Truly creative and artistic! Thank you for sharing.
Cheers, a pleasure to share : )
It's great to see that you can replicate intaglio printing on a gel plate like this. Good call from Engelhafen 👍
It's a comparable technique, for sure, just not as refined in line. Has a quality all of its own though and I'm looking forward to exploring more...
They’re all interesting but wow that final one is fab!
I enjoyed the final one too! I love those promarker pens, so good for layering
That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Worked out so well! All prints are great, especially the last one! TFS the inspiration!
: ) cheers
So inspiring!!! Love watching your techniques on the gel plate 👍🏼
Cheers Leah, glad you're enjoying the vids : )
brilliant...I am a constant experimenter!!!
I tried your technique. Honked up the first pull, I mixed gel medium with acrylic and used too much so half of the pull stuck to the plate. But prints 2 and 3 came out amazingly well. Found a picture of an Archer fish xray which was a good beginner sketch. Thank you for your videos, you are very talented.
So glad you persevered and made it work for you : )
Can't wait to try the damp paper! The marker work you did was so great prior to printing
Hope it goes well : )
Another great video. I got quite good prints from the dry ballpoint technique, but my goodness it is inhibiting to have to press that hard! I saw the wet paper technique on Art Prof, but did not think I could do with all the soaking and sloshiness, she also washes her roller, and I cannot mess around with water much, though I loved her results and appreciated her fine art perspecive, as I do yours. I was SO glad to see a drier version! Once more your minimal no fuss approach finds a happy medium for me. I am also very thankful for the heads up on the Amsterdam black, which I will be definitely trying. Am also going to be experimenting with a mix of fast and slow drying acrylics, fast for the under layers, and very opaque and very transparent ones too. For some reason nearly all my golden opens, which are around five years old, are transparent so .I must have had something similar in mind back then for painting, underpainting in fast drying and then glazing, so I am going to see how this does in Gelli print, with landscape to test the process. Also take it slooow, and see whether I can then over print with painted on fast dry opaques. Or even metallics. I have been really liking handpainting the plate so this video of yours sparked of some process ideas as I watched your handpainting bead up a bit. Remembering back I think when I bought these acrylics I had been looking at work made by someone using Perspex and a different kind of printing ink, and I thought it possible to replicate something of that persons process but not the style, as a very home based process rather than a studio one, as I had just become a powerchair user. I forgot till today just how easy it is to forget why you buy art supplies! It is always easier to create in your mind than it is in reality. I really appreciate your no fuss minimum of mess approach, it makes so many things possible. You are already sharing techniques for transparent approaches, so thought maybe the idea that these could be extended might be of interest. I really also enjoyed the Klee and Matisse videos for similar reasons. Thank you too for the idea that the plate is not necessarily a static object!
What a wonderful message Lindy, thanks. Giving me loads to think about - golden open paints were on my list but you've just bumped them to the front of my mind! So glad you're making things in a home setting too, I've tried to keep that in mind when making all the videos at my own kitchen table - most of us don't have the luxury of a studio space!!!! And, thanks so much for reinforcing the idea that gel plate is not a static object - its transparency means you can do so much with it!!!!
@@yeatesmakes my son bought me my little 6x6 and got me a Perspex mount for it, I have been playing with it, and loving being able to place the Gelli more accurately, so I just got onefor my 8x10 from a company called Clarity stamps. They have an extra half inch all round great for picking the whole thing up, and have some guide lines including diagonals. If I were handy or more adventurous I would make my own and maybe score the guidelines in….. or even just use an indelible pen on the wrong side. it would be easy if you got the Perspex cut for you, it pretty much allows you to print anyway you want, walls, you name it, so long as it is flat…. I like the way I can quickly flip it over, also I can see what it looks like in reverse….
I am thinking that the size of the plate need not inhibit the size of the finished piece either, you just have to plan a bit….
The golden are lovely. I think I was going to have a go with caligo but the clean up looked rather formidable ….. so I got them instead… well, if the open had not worked for print I would have painted with them instead! With your bigger plate I think you might enjoy the longer drying time, if it takes too long then I think you could play around with adding a regular acrylic to adjust it to the kind of time you like working with. I thought with some of your more complex stuff it could give you the extra time you need for placement…
Incredible! Thank you for sharing your experiments.
A pleasure Chelsea, cheers for comment : )
This is absolutely awesome! I am excited about your Van Gogh as that is my current study.
Cheers Linda, I love his drawings particularly so may look at that angle...
Fabulous!
Cheers Ed : )
Fabulous video. Love the process and the results. Thanks for sharing.
A pleasure Janet : )
Wow, that was just wonderful! As always, heartfelt thanks.
A pleasure Alice, this technique has so much potential. I've just ordered a bigger plate, I think it will be great on that
Beautiful! You are a good artist - thank you for sharing the development of your processes.
Cheers Karen : )
I found this through Pinterest and really enjoyed watching the experiments and have subscribed to your channel. Can’t wait to see more!
Wow, beautiful!
: ) Cheers
AMAZING! Well done team 😀
I learned so much from your videos. Thanks for sharing this!
A pleasure to share Heather : )
Hi Yeates what a stunning series! Thank you for sharing your techniques.
A pleasure Mel, cheers : )
Fabulous. Can’t wait to try this.
Its fun ; )
noticed your peter doig book there for a second, gosh I love that artist so much!
He's in my top 10!!!
i love your work and have learned alot. I was thinking that maybe if you sprayed your embossed plate with a water proof varnish, back and front, it might make it stronger and it would last longer and you'd be able to clean it with alcohol based hand gel
If the plate sticks sometimes I have more luck if I keep the paper flat and peel off the plate instead. Lovely prints!
Cheers Jayne : )
Wonderful!
: ) Cheers
Great ideas!
Cheers Roz : )
Your videos are SO inspiring! I should be inking new illutrations right now, but all I wanna do and can think about is doing the collage-and-cut technique with all those gorgeous layers and my gelli plate. Thanks so much for sharing your experiments. Just like with ballet I prefer the hard work of the training to the performance.
Oh dear, hopefully you've got back to your illustrations!
What a gorgeous work!
Thank you for sharing this.
I love your art!
xxx
A pleasure to share some techniques Evelyn : )
fantastic!
: ) Cheers
Those were awesome. Great job.
Cheers : ) glad you enjoyed
Absolutely amazing
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Another wonderful technique. Great prints with very different feel to each. Assume you left the watercolor paper til bone dry on the line 😎 Will now go look up the photographer. Thank you for sharing.
Bone dry. Lee Jeffries well worth looking at.
Thank you for your great videos
No problem, glad you enjoyed : )
Love it! You’re so inspirational.
Pleased you loved it : ) and thanks for encouragement
Gel medium = genius !
Gel medium so useful on gel plate : )
You're so good. Great video, thank you Mark!
Cheers mieke : )
hholy crapington! cool beans, thanks!! love this technique
Hi Kate - the technique has legs. Just been recording some video of experimenting with more expressive ballpoint work on damp paper. Going well so far!
hey cool guy, I am going to try this certainly, do not worry, I save your videos and watch them 2 or 3 times, just to let them sink in. S0 glad to have found your work and videos! Just think your work is so interesting.
Love your videos. Thank you.
Cheers Christine : )
another great video! thank you!
Wow! That is so cool. TFS
A pleasure, cheers for comment : )
So cool! Great inspiration. Thank you!
A pleasure : )
Super gorgeous
: ) Cheers
Hi and Happy New Year! What paper did you use for the embossed drawing ? I know it was 300gsm hot press . Additionally, what paper do you prefer to use to pull your prints. Thanks so much for the information. I just donated to your PayPal. I appreciate all that you do.
Thanks so much for the donation, it will keep me stocked up in art supplies!!!! I used Fabriano 4 paper to emboss with - the stuff I usually soak for a drypoint print. I print onto all sorts but mainly smooth cartridge papers around 200gsm, deli paper and, more recently, Ho-Sho that I normally lino print on : )
Wow! This is amazing!
You ogtta try it out Kristy!!!
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I see you were using your expensive glue spreader for the gel application
I am so inspired by your tutorials! I’m wondering if Lee Jeffries has royalty free photos?
I doubt it...
Fabulous
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So COOL! Oh, B😎Y! Thanks once more!
Lol! A pleasure Karin : )
What brand/type/thickness gelli plate do you Recommend?
I've only tried Gelli Arts and GelElf - they both work just fine