You literally just blew my mind with the wax crayon rubbing after the cuts!!! What a GREAT IDEA!!!!

Absolutely stunning. You are so generous with your process you’re such a wonderful teacher. Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏼🙏🏼❗️

Your work has influenced me so much over the past few months. I was mostly a digital artist before, but now I've been messing with all sorts of traditional mediums that I had never explored before. I've been loving making collage out of vintage horror comic print outs mixed with 40s and 50s advertising, and just random garbage I find around town. I've become this little pack rat, that's constantly collecting bits and pieces of paper to add texture to my work. I very much appreciate you sharing your art process and experiments with us.

Admire your patience to this so complex multi layered art, an art in itself….cheers

Fascinating to watch the layers emerge

Absolutely amazing! I could see that collage/decollage you created hanging in a museum!

Thank you so much sharing your processes and ideas. You keep encouraging us to ask 'what if' and then just try it. 🙏

Love the dedication to the piece. Of all the things I’ve learned on your channel, that concept is the most priceless 🤘🏼

W. O. W. This is so frustrating, in a way: I basically want to collect everything you make! ...Except, of course, for the fact that I think your work deserves the widest possible audience. I particularly enjoy the idiosyncratic touch you bring to this process, with the selective cutting and peeling and replacing and coloring and covering and... all the rest of it. I also love the contrast and balance between the specificity of message in your percent sign and selection of materials, against the randomness of the pattern you create with it--both of which actually contribute clarity to the intended meaning. I sometimes feel frustrated by many people's incorporation of alphabet stencils, in rote order, when specific text could be so much more enriching to their work. Watching how you developed the whole idea, and hearing your reflections on the developing intention as you worked, was both very useful and insight-provoking. The work itself reminds me in some ways of the one in your "Gelli print 'scrap' pattern collage idea" episode. I think this work is more highly-developed, however. I love the idea of customizing your materials by printing on the found papers that further reinforce your theme and statement, and the experiment with varying the scale. The way you adapted the found posters to the specifics of your work was also enlightening. Also, the idea of taking one or more rubbings, throughout the process. Brilliant! Definitely stashing those thoughts away for future use. Also appreciate the sense you give of how, and how long, you worked on this piece. That's key information that often gets overlooked. It's rather relieving to know that this actually took some serious investment of time, beyond what we see on screen. Also, it's helpful realizing this is a process that permits intermittent work sessions. Always useful when dealing with Real Life. Wonderful, wonderful video. Thank you yet again!

Adorable. Stunning. Disruptive. Stimulating. Generous. Gorgeous. Creative. Passionate. And the list goes on. Thank you!

You are a natural born teacher. Love your work!

Oh wow, love your style! I am just flabbergasted!

This was fascinating to watch and I learnt so much and wow that wax crayon rubbing was brilliant ! ..Thankyou

Love your stencil/ collage/ decollage work, and the clarity of your process demonstrations- thank you! I have physical issues with my hands, but I thought of a solution: using Illustrator or Photoshop, I reduce an image to two color, then to an outline. I bring this into the cricut workspace and the machine can cut the image for me. I've been using the thick covers of magazines as the stencil material, holds up to several prints.

you sure make it look like fun and good tips on how to knock out your" stuck in the rut" fog

Wow! That’s really cool!!! Love it!!!! Thank you for sharing your process! 😊👍🏻

I’ve been watching your videos for months now, and I love them all. They always manage to challenge me to think of new approaches, and they always pique my curiosity for new techniques. But this collage/decollage video is my absolute favorite! This has given me ideas that will feed me for weeks to come. Thank you for all your videos!

Lovely video with very easy to understand directions.

Disruptive, joyful process! I like the idea of sanding the paper. Can’t wait to try that!

I will definitely try. I love your cutting technique. The collage looks stunning. Greetings from Berlin.

Great! U ve been so generous at giving away fabulos ideas!😊

I absolutely love your process, the discovery, the experimentation, the controlled chaos. The sanding was a great touch. I'd love to see you do a studio tour video, or at least show us how you organize all these little bits and bobs of paper. I'd imagine you don't throw anything away.

That collage and your process is so rad! It truly is! I love it because, as you said, “you never know what it’s going to reveal”.

I am fairly new to collage and I had been struggling with piecing together mid-century designs created with a gelli-plate which was inspired by Tara Axford via GPS ( I'll be working my way through everyone's video as time allows). Now that I've watched this fab video I'm going to try incorporating your technique as the patterns I created are very repetitive and I feel I can achieve a far more interesting outcome than just by matching pieces of paper together (Tara does it beautifully). The Gelli plate will be out again to create more papers on the same theme to allow for cutting, shaping, adding, discarding... the list goes on, so much fun. Thank you so much for sharing all your art and inspiring ideas :)

I really liked it and then you started sanding and was afraid you were overworking it. You added the bits of red and color, and it just popped . Very nice

This was enjoyable. I found your creative thought processes while you were working through your project, very interesting. Thank you for letting us into your head

Amazing work process and work. Love the interchange of negative positive shapes, varying the scale to ad interest.

I am so inspired by your work - you reminded me how much I love collage (and printmaking) and how much I miss it. Thank you for sharing! Love what you create!

Unglaublich.....das ist viel arbeit, ganz viele liebe für das Werk mit dem vielen ab- und wieder auftragen.......unglaublich gute Kunst

Love love this……I do pieces using collage but never thought of de…collage! Thank you so much ….love your work. More collage please.

Wow! That's definitely a process! Very clearly explained. I liked how the pieces you cut at the end looked like they were coming up from underneath. Tfs

Love your videos Mark and always better with rewatching.💖💖💖🇦🇺

It works!!!!! I’m enjoying it so much…..from the random collage and paint layers to cutting out the shapes….it’s amazing like doing surgery!!!! Thank you for the idea.

This is so creative and awesome ... can watch you for hours with your scalpel.. so precise in a random way🤪 thx for sharing

Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate this technique. I love this type of collage. Very urban.

Your control of a lot of associated processes creates a singular format. This is really a collage sculpture that digs deep into the past and renews the graphic tradition. The intensity of your approach is in direct contrast to the relaxing elemental output of gelli printer Art Whisperer, whose work I appreciate for different reasons. I could imagine many artists who work in an opposite way wanting to collect your work for the very reason it is not like theirs but after so much focus and engagement I can imagine you would not let any piece go lightly. Hopefully curators are also watching.

Very inspiring, great work, and beautiful peace at the end! Thank you for sharing.

I like the notion of adding and removing …

Just stumbled on this- really great ideas to work on- the building up of layers at the start is particularly motivating. Keep up the good work.

This is taking collage to a whole new level, brilliant- more please!

Oh fabulous! You’ve just given me so many ideas. I also want to rush off to Berlin, but meanwhile I’m going to buy a really good scalpel…and put a sander on my wish list. Thanks again🙏🙏🙏

Just discovered your channel! I love this demo! What most impresses me is your fearless application and then removal, having no idea what will develop. Sanding, different adhesives, ripping off and laying right down again, dry or not dry-all new to a new collagist. Also, the speed of the video and narration are great. Rubbing and prints?! Wow! Love your concepts and vocabulary! I’m hooked at my first video!

It's mind boggling to watch you work, the patience and diligence you possess is inspiring!!

Beautiful work and a great experimental attitude! Nothing is precious! Just those two things can make a great change in the art we produce!

Wow this was incredible helpful. The techniques.

Lots of fun and thank you, I have boxes of paper I couldn't throw away :) LOL Love the collage inspiration :)

I'm new to decollage and love how you've used it in this video. The overprint of repeated graphic pattern is something new to me as well, and I'll definitely try. Thanks for the great demo, tips and tricks!

Amazing. Such fun to watch. I'm going to be playing with decollage and inlay for sure! Thank you for your generosity.

You make it all look so easy! I love collage, and I’m going to give that a try. I admire your work, and your passion for same.

FINE ART collage, wonderful tecnick; very nice video,thank you.

Awesome video thanks! More collage please!

Love these techniques. Need to try. Thanks for the video!

I can't wait to try this! This is such a fun method. Thank you for sharing. The little aside about making a wax crayon rubbing is fantastic!! ❤

Fantastic Mark, I could watch this for hours. Thank you!

Love that technique. Looks amazing! Cool development...I am inspired to go back to collage. Haven't done some in a while. Saw some techniques I never considered...

It's wonderful ! Always coming up with new techniques. I admire your pacience, cutting and cutting and cutting. : )

Absolutely amazing work! Love it !!!

I absolutely LOVE this demo!! Awesome work!!!

Just a great process and so generous with your knowledge . Many thanks. I have donated a very small amount -as much as I can afford but would be very happy to use affiliate links to art supplies if you could set that up for us all. I am sure your viewers would be supportive also.

Wow, thanks, this has freed my thinking so much!

Absolutely amazing--thanks for sharing the technique!

Nice! Can’t wait to see more! Thanks for sharing, it's always a delight to see what you've come up with.

So interesting. I came back to watch this again.❤

Love your use of the orbital sander to smooth and knock back collaged elements. I've used my orbital sander to make large scale felt images with wool roving atop fine nylon mesh.

YES! Just bought some canvas panels with no purpose in mind, about the same time you posted this. There's (at least one) American political issues that deserve this treatment. These are certainly, like your finance and economics, issues that confuse me. Have done a lot of covering up in collage but not the deconstructing. This is a great process and great process video. Thanks.

One of the most important takeaways for me from observing your process is such an impressive illustration of the value of NOT letting yourself get all precious about what you’ve already put down! (HA! Literally as I’m typing this you said it out loud 😄). I often get afraid of ruining some element that I genuinely do like, but I think I close off a lot of possibilities by holding onto one stage of a project while simultaneously (in theory ) trying to take it forward… ALSO! Seeing that gorgeous rubbing has reminded me that I really have to figure out why I haven’t yet had any success with using crayon rubbings on the gel plate! So frustrating, because they have just an infinite range of possibilities for what they can bring to gel printed imagery, if I can only get the technique to actually work!

Great timing - I ‘ve always been intrigued by found decollage on billboards and recently try to create them from scratch. Your work is enchanting and encouraging. Thanks. Mille Grazie! ✂️🎨🎶👏

Love your channel! So many great ideas and places to jump off from!

Great video; both tips and comments on thoughts influencing the work✨

Many thanks for this demo. I wish I had a British accent! Lol But really, I have been doing ripped layers of paper, torn off paint layers and restuck them in abstracts, but THIS is a step wayyyy up! Doing this today in my RV art space!

This video has so much in it and is such a great inspiration. Thank you for making it!

I had a very limited concept of collage. Again you shine a little light into my brain. Besides, it is always so exiting to watch an artist at work. Thanks, and all the best.

Brilliant!!! Thank you for sharing your technique 🙏🏾

Oh wow! You are right! Mark Bradford's work is so ingaging. I can understand why he inspired you to make this.

OUTSTANDING !

This is so excellent, thank you for sharing your talents!

W - O - W… this is so cool… !!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is just wonderful. Great concept and visual execution.

Love it ! What a fun way to use collage and the result is amazing ! Thanks for sharing your process.

Really love the inlay idea. This piece is great.

Really fantastic work!

Oh wow!! You never fail to amaze me!! Thanks so much!

This is fantastic! I love this piece and it was so interesting and exciting to see how you made it. Your ingenuity and patience are admirable. I really want to try some of these techniques. I've used similar techniques, but not to the extent that you're using them here. Great video! Thank You!

Awesome stuff!!! Thank you for sharing!!! Loving all your videos.

This is fantastic!How wonderful and unselfish of you to share this!You have opened so many doors for me,I’m just starting to do collage and not even heard of décolleté but I’m so going to have a go!Would love to see some more of this kind of art..hopefully you’ll produce some soon…will be waiting patiently lol!Thankyou so much for sharing this!❤

Mind. Blown ! Thank you!

Ingenious work🙂

Given me lots of great ideas! Thanks 😊

LOVE THIS! Thanks very much. I’m going to try this technique.

This was fascinating to watch. Thanks for sharing. Founds loads of ideas to incorporate into my own art.

I can see a lot of ways to go with this. The way you use collage is very inspiring. I’d like to do a whole series of these. Also, I plan on using your videos as a sort of school to put myself through to experience all these techniques then interpret them to my own liking. Thanks so much!

Amazing! Love it. Thank you. New sub from Spain

Beautiful!

This is brilliant. I can't wait to try something like this! Thank you for the inspiration!

Thanks again Mark, I just love your videos 😊 I always look forward to you next share 😊

Just love your work SOOOO much!! You share so many inspirational methods and techniques and I always love the finished pieces. Thank you once again for taking the time to do this 😁

Wonderful! Exactly what I've been looking for. Gotta go cut up some magazines now!

Beautiful

This is fantastic

Wow you're really talented that was awesome 👌