Haha an old man? I am turning 70, and just now doing art over the past year. Absorbing like a sponge.

It takes guts to experiment with art. Big risk, big rewards. Now you can refine this technique and practice and adopt the parts you like.

I truly love watching your tutorials and listening to your soothing voice. I learn so much from you and am very grateful. Thank you so much for taking the time and care to share your knowledge, ideas and skills. Really inspiring.

Your plate will clean up absolutely fine with some baby oil. So glad you experimented with this and you will now see its potential. It does look just like lithography, and you can keep drawing into the original with pastels and charcoal too, and make fresh prints from your original. I loved your ghost and it’s complex marks. You could also make your ‘skeleton’ as your first mark making with black or another deep dark pastel, or even charcoal, though I find it will turn less black than pastel. Hand painted would work well too. I loved your surprise at the vividness of pastels! I was also surprised that they no longer were smudgy and messy! Gell plates are just so good to work with, they do so much!

Thank you so much for your wonderful videos! I am a painter and am finding a new exciting medium which has opened up a different way to communicate. You are kind and generous with your advice and inspirational in your beautiful clours and textures. I am going to be 80 in a months time and never expected to be so obsessed again! Its a huge learning curve and learning what paints to use and how long to wait ! Thank you again

It is great how pastel colours stay lively when placed on gelli. Pastels can be overlooked due to challenge of sealing without loss of vibrancy, or limits in multimedia. The gelli keeps them firm and bright and beautifully integrated with acrylic in a way almost impossible to emulate otherwise.. You continue to make new modernism exciting, Fulton.

That cross hatching in the 2nd print is so interesting! I say wow to your experiment!

Wow! Lovely work and thank you for sharing!❤

I love how the ghost print came out….really wonderful textures.

I really enjoyed this video!! I have seen some people who use pastels on the gel plate, but not as boldly as you have here. That's what I love about your videos and what you are able to teach through them. As you have for yourself and for us, you have opened a new world of possibilities! I love both of the prints that you made and thank you so much!

HI Fulton! I am so thrilled to see the results you achieved using pastels on your Gelli plate! I made some prints with pastels that I loved, but I placed the pastel directly on the plate and pulled the print, and the pastels stained my 2 5" x 7" plates, unfortunately. Using the pastels with a transfer method is definitely the way to go! Beautiful prints!

Very cool! I've been playing with pan pastels on gel plate. Amazing how many pulls you can get.

Beautiful work!! The texture on the ghost print is amazing! And yes, it's a challenge to get all the color off the plate, but I find baby wipes work great, maybe it's the baby oil in them. That yellow-green color you liked is yellow ocher - it's my favorite too! You can get multiple prints off the same paper too - I use scrap paper to scribble on, then "stamp" onto the gel plate multiple times.

Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative lovely art piece..💛✍👩‍🎨🇨🇦🇺🇲💛

The ghost print is superb...I love the background marks. Thank you for sharing this!

I think the second print is spectacular. I find it much more interesting than the first, although both are wonderful!

The second one is my favourite. The technique makes me think of using the gelli plate in a totally different way. Thanks

Wow, the gelli plate is so versatile. You can print with so many types of art supplies. That came out so cool. Mid century modern stained glass!

This is wonderful! The variety and textures the pastels give the print are incredible... what an adventure! Thanks so much for sharing. 😊

Really great to see. I tried recently to do charcoal drawing on the plate, and it transferred beautifully. And you can save your drawings, refresh the media and use it over and over which is nice. Enjoyed your pastels they are both unique and great!

I love it!!!

Love them both. Thanks for share ❤

The possibilities are endless.. both are exceptional.

Thank you for this video!

This was AWESOME! 👏

Those are so different! What a cool process!

Love it. So different. Thanks for experimenting.

That came out beautiful! Interesting video, thanks for it!

Wow! This is a VERY cool video!

Great session..

Crazy! Who knew. I really like the #1.

You nailed it! I love this!

Very nice!! Love it❤️

lovet them both, ghost print is my favorite!!!!

Hypnotic process! ❤❤❤

Love it!❣

Oh, wow. What a cool print. Thanks for sharing.

liking your out of lines, and mark making.!! wonderful

This experiment was a great success.

Perfect i like ,imperfect i love ! I am totally agree with you .Imperfekt make it very interesting 🤗

I tried a soft pastel transfer, the way you did,. Worked fine. Then I thought that if I used black acrylic paint to pull the print it would look great because soft pastel on black paper is very nice. But it didn't work AT ALL. The pastelpigments were almost totally invisible, So you know. Nice to do some experiments though. Makes me laugh!

Wonderful video it turned out great!. Will be watching this again it's something I'd love to try. Thx much for sharing👍🏽

This was one of my favorite coloring techniques as a child. I could draw intersecting lines on a paper and color them in over and over.I love to see what you did with the technique.

Great... your experiments are inspiring!

Wow, wow, wow. My first time watching your videos. This was surprising and so cool.

Très beau résultat. La méthode offre beaucoup de possibilités.

Nothing puts you off 🙃 well done for persevering 😰some amazing prints and very unexpected but incredibly interesting ghost 🎉

Beautiful 🎉

They both turned out really beautiful! Machteld (the Netherlands)💖🍀

I think I actually like the ghost print better than the first.

Wabi sabi my. Friend ❤

I have my answer thanks !❤

Love the subtlety of the second print--wonder what would happen if you rubbed and blended the pastel in the first piece before printing? So many things to try, thanks for showing this!

Hi Fulton, I want to firstly say a warm thank you for all of your inspiring work. Very therapeutic and informative! Secondly, I wonder if you can help me? I bought a large 16”x20” gelli plate but when I opened it I found that it doesn’t come in a clam shell case like the smaller ones do. I read somewhere that I can use copy paper but the largest size paper I have is cartridge paper which I ended up using. Now though I’m worried that I have damaged the plate and not sure how I can properly store it. Please could you let me know how you store yours?

They look fantastic. I wonder if you are going to "seal it".

looks or behaves like oil pastels? surprising and amazing prints, I would have to bury some of the black lines on the 2nd print somehow, but yea for your efforts!

Both of these are wonderful. It’s amazing to watch you work. I wonder if these pastels need to be sealed or is the pastel imbedded in the acrylic?

Did you let the white background dry before putting your Blick watercolor paper on. This is a great technique.

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing. Do you have to seal these now due to being pastels? Does the pastel scratch off?

I really love this effect! What was the paper you used to color the pastels on? Does it have any special properties to speak of?

Would a layer of clear gel on the plate first help with later pastel mark removal, provided pastels still transfer nicely?

Hi Fulton, I am wondering if you would be kind enough to share how you go about framing your large monoprints. I remember watching your video a while back on your exhibit and the pieces looked beautiful. I remember you used black or white frames depending on the piece. I have made a couple of pieces that I would like to frame but find the 22x30” size quite expensive when doing custom matting and framing. I have framed my own photography over the years but pieces are quite a bit smaller. I fully understand if you don’t want to do a lesson on this so don’t feel obligated in any way. You have enough on your plate. Thanks so much for all you do share.

That ghost print is stunning! May I ask about the paper onto which you initially crew with the chalk pastels - it was transparent, but before I try - and as I don't want to ruin my gelli plate - does the paper used have a weight, a type or am I best advised to go and choose any parchment-type/tracing paper? Thank you in anticipation.......

Sorry I missed it somewhere. Are these chalk or oil pastels? They are both beautiful! I’ve been binge watching your videos! Thank you

Way cool. I am a pastel artist. This is so amazing. I may have to try that. Is the last black pen you used a Posca pen?

I would like to ask whether the pastels need to be "fixed" once pulled from the Gel Plate or has it already "glued " them to the paper. Fabulous video as ever, Fulton. Thankyou! Thankyou!

Hello, what is the board called that you do your registration with? And where did you get it from?

Wonderful. Is it chalks or oil or wax pastels? Does it work with all of those? Thanks

Is it soft or oil pastel?

Hello, do you need to fix the pastel after this transfert ? Did you try with oil pastel or oil painting like « cobra » wich is a waterable oil ? What kind of oil are you using for the gelli plate ? Best regards

Do you think the caran’d Ache water soluble pastels crayons works the same , would U try it?

Hello, please write what kind of pastel you used.

What kind of pastel did you use? OIL?

What is that music you always play?

What kind of paper did you use?

Are those oil pastels?

All you did was oil the plate ? I’ve tried this but colors were EXTREMELY PALE !

Can I get an address/po box to send you something? 😀😀