At last someone using a gelli plate that is artistic not just pretty patterns. Thank you.

Probably the most creative way I’ve ever seen anyone use a gel plate. I love the abstract look of it. I’m going to give this a try it’s just so fabulous thank you so much.

What a gift it is for your son to have you as his Dad! You are an unbelievably interesting, fabulous, artist! You have so many great ideas! I, myself, had no art in my life until I was about 50 years old, and I always say ‘ if I knew back then what I know now’ things would have been so different. 🇨🇦✌🏼

Thank you for all your superb videos! As an art teacher for teens I am so grateful, I can use so much of your techniques in class. Love it! Also very grateful you also share the artist you keep as inspiration, widen the horizon so to speak. I understand “I am late to the game” here but I am binging your playlist every moment I can, and taking notes, experimenting. My summer break will be totally gelling, such a treasure! Thank you Mark! Keep Making!

I'm very inspired by your approaches and your teaching style, thank you for sharing your processes with us 🎨🖌️

Very interesting. Thank you. I always get a lot out of your tutorials. 🎉❤😊

Thank you for all your videos. Fantastically inspirational. Such a gift that you’re taking time to share your art knowledge, experience and lovely work in these well-made, entertaining videos.

Only recently discovered your videos and I think this is the best yet. You’ve totally transformed the way to use a gel plate. Brilliant. Please don’t stop. Incidentally you’re style of presentation is excellent.

A fab video, great artistic use of this medium. I love the raw expressionist and almost brutal outcome. You’ve inspired me to try.

Amazing. So fun to see this use some painterly techniques. Keep experimenting! Your background and skills are taking gel printing to a new level. Still accessible. 😀

Happy New Year, Yeates Makes ! I don't know if you know this: you are really one of the best. You are brilliant! Learning so much from you!! Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic

W O N D E R F U L ! Thanks for your awesome way of show and tell!

Fabulous!

Great video. Thank you

Stunning. Love your videos and Artwork.

Amazing

Absolutly fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Another great video and technique. Thank you

Inspirational thank you. I’m fired up

You have no idea the gift you’ve given me. For many years I have kept a drawing that I made of my now deceased grandmother. A simple line drawing but caught one day as she sat quietly at a window. I think your technique will express perfectly the emotion of this drawing that I’ve for so long desired to render. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for your generosity, your skill and your TALENT.

Love this. Got the bits and pieces to give this a try!

I love all your great ideas and tips! Can’t wait to try! Thanks

I look forward to your videos so much!

A friend introduced me to your channel today, and I'm loving what you are doing with a gel plate! I love that you experiment and play and try different things! I'm a new subscriber!

That was freaking awesome! Inspiring in the extreme! Thankyou!

Thank you soooo much for sharing this fabulous technique! 🌷

I just love all your videos... Thank you

Thankyou so much for your videos. They are so inspiring and really artistic and meaningful. I appreciate you have taken the time to teach us so well.

Thank you so much for this and all the other videos!

Wonderful demo, thanks so much for sharing 🙏💕⭐️

Super cool! Love learning new techniques

Great effects! Lots of food for thought! Thankyou so much for sharing! 😄

Great demo, so inspiring

Thank so much for this new technique which has produced images with real feeling and depth.

You opened whole new worlds for me, warm thanks!

Thank you. So much you are teaching me.

You are so creative and so generous to share with us. Thanks

I know that thing, taking a step back and diving into other things...I fill my studio with all of that so I too can enjoy that experience of creating and when one medium goes down, I reach for the next! You have inspired me to pull out my gel!!!

I’m having so much fun with your techniques that you are sharing. I was looking more artistic way to use the plate and I found your channel. I am finding my way and can’t thank you enough. . Thanks so much for all the information and time you give. Happy to have found your channel. ❤🇨🇦

I love how you work. Great vid!

Just WOW! Moving portraiture. Fascinating how you use that gel plate. Thanks for sharing!

Amazing! This is a whole new level of gelli printing. This definitely gives the prints a more organic look and feel. And the texture looks as if you were to run your hand over the print, you could actually feel it. Beautiful work and thanks for sharing 👍

Gotta try this too.

Brilliant as always Mark. Going to have a go at this right away before I forget the process.

Your creativity amazes me. And I love that you collaborate with your kids.

Wow! That is stunning! Have just discovered you and love your work! Very inspiring and givng me lots of ideas to try on my geliplate!

Wow! This is getting INTERESTING! Thanks Yeates🙂

your drawing strokes are so confidant

I’m watching one or two a day, absorbing all your various approaches. How inspiring! Thanks!

This is amazing! First ever seen technique, thank you so much for sharing this

you're a genius Mark!

So interesting you obviously know how to experiment in what direction to take it in... fabulous... always looking forward to your videos... thx 🤩

That is awesome, thanks so much for sharing your experiments. Nice to hear about something that works with an ink jet printer.

So excited to find your channel - taking gelli print into the realm of art I was struggling to make a connection between gelli fun and what I think of as my real work. this is it for me!

Oh my I'm new to your channel and I need to work now but all I want to do is to binge watch your videos!!! So cool! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing creativity with us

Wow!! So cool. On my way to the studio to try this!! Thank you so much!! Cindy

Such awesomeness. Great technique. Great teaching style. Everything about this is inspirational.

Interesting Nice result.

Fantastic video - thank you ! Lovely to see some "arty" prints instead of the usual demos . Definitely going to give this a try . Kind regards - Judi - Australia .

Loving these! Really exciting technique! Also love how you help develop your son's confidence in his art making. Welcome to the dark (#grungy) side lol. Tfs

Beautiful lesson! I love your son's drawing style. And I really enjoy how different you both drew!

I have learned so much from your videos. Geli printing is like a poor man’s tool when you don’t have the expensive equipment

Aww.. so cool you got your son involved, loved the result. I realise now why im drawn to your channel, i could watch more experienced gelli plate ppl yes.. but i really love your experimentation and your enthusiam for the subject 👍

I might be able to finally tackle some portraits as a result of this video! Love it. Thanks for continuing to experiment!

WOW I finally understand the idea of resist. I know it should be self evident, but I couldn't seem to smooth it out in my head. You are a fabulous and patient instructor. God bless you

I love the results of the print and your sons print looked good to. Please keep posting and experimenting.

Love your videos, have watched a few of them. This is such a great way to get an expressive portrait. Thank you so much for all your inspiring words and pieces.

This is a fascinating technique. Thank you for mentioning Käthe Kollwitz. She’s one of my all-time favorite artists. I live in Berlin, so I am able to see quite a bit of her work and that of other expressionists.

Love it and I'm quite jealous of your son having such a talented Father who can pass his passion on to his children!

Thank you so much for responding, I’ve been experimenting with your technique and I absolutely love it. So I posted some of my results on Instagram mentioning that I had seen this technique done by you on KZfaq. This is taking my gel printing in a new direction which I really like. I’ve done some very good magazine and laser print print but they’re boring when they come out perfect lol. So thank you again look forward to more of your videos. And I hope you become very famous👍💥💥💥💥

Gracias, gracias por inspirarnos con tu creatividad !!!!!! Saludos desde Argentina!!!!

This is the only method I would like a portrait of my 72 year old face, the character, Amazing Thank you x

I just ordered a small gel plate to start expirimenting after discovering your videos. I didnt even know this existed before!!! Im a disabled artist recovering from extreme burn out and reconnecting wuth my art, and i love the kinds of TEXTURE and line quality and the multimedia possibilities of this!!! Thank you so much for the inspiration.

Wow. As comment below, at last an artistic way of using a gelli plate. My plate's been out today making patterns but this evenings use will be quite different. Thanks for this.

Love this vlog from start to finish. Your son's choice of portrait subject tickled me. Some day I might remember the movie, too. (Got it! Sister Julienne from Call the Midwife, played by Jenny Agutter.) And your choice of Kathe Kollwitz, wonderful. I'm pretty new to gel printing but your process is clear and I'm going to try this. Thanks for your vlogs.

Your videos are the answer for how to create fine art with a gelli plate. Bravo! Thank you so much for what appears to be a pioneering move toward new horizons for the use of the humble gelli plate. Because of you I have been in my studio for the past 3 days...and excited to be there. Mind you, this is after 5 difficult years and nearly no time/enthusiasm to create. It's because you chose to share that I cannot wait to fling that door open again and just have fun! Thank you.

Luv this,it’s great for people like me who can’t draw!

I've just watched this again for the second time and I love it. I'm keeping this in my KZfaq library for a teaching instructional video for myself. You really hit it out of the park with this. This technique just puts gel printing on a whole new level. The application for portraits is astonishing. My question to you sir is, how well does this translate to more detailed prints...? Say something like a landscape? ...Or an intercate scean with more subject matter? I hope that makes sense...? Great video and great presentation. Thanks for your wealth of information and sharing it 👍

That's the next gelli-plate-level! Today I tried your ballpoint-emboss-technic again. The first and second prints were very good, the third print good but the last was to gentle/faint. So I used your oil-pastel-technic to add two colors and - tata - the last print became good too 😀 Thank you for sharing your fantastic technics.

Lovely to read all the positive comments. You deserve it totally. Thanks again.

thank you

I just messaged seven people on Instagram to look at your videos. You are definitely unique.

Thank you so much for your amazing videos. You have really encouraged me to try printmaking using the Gelli plate. I had no idea just how far you can push it. Combine this with Kathe Kollwitz, who is one of my all time favourite artists, and I am once more finding my art to be challenging and exciting. Thank you for that as well. For various reasons I had lost my spark, but now there aren't enough hours in the day.

Most interesting. I have used oil pastels on the plate but not ike this. I am going to give it a go using photos of my grand-daughter. Thank you for sharing!

I don't know whether you consciously intended it, or not, but this is a great response to my (and possibly others') request to see how you'd address registration issues. I'd love to see you do more exploration of this issue, although I hasten to add that I have found every one of your experimental videos richly inspiring. In this particular case, I appreciate seeing the success of such loose and expressive treatment, when registered. Somehow reassuring. I also very much enjoy the art history you include, from time to time. When I already know of the person, it's pleasant to know that you like them. And when I don't (as with this artist), I'm eager to know more.

Hi. I learned, recently, that you can use a hairdryer (set on medium) to dry the paint/and or the paper, to speed up the process. I love your videos, by the way. Great job 😊👍🏾

Superb!! So much potential here. And I love Käthe Kollwitz!

I recognized her name from America Werewolf in London but after googling, I see she’s a nun in Call of the Midwife (haven’t seen). Btw, I love seeing both you and your son’s hands together working on this art piece!

Love your videos, lots of inspiration! And Käthe Kollwitz is also a great artist and inspiration for me, although I'm far from her bold expressionism. Maybe one day...

I find it interesting that you wait for the paint to dry before pulling the prints. The artists I have previously followed say to pull straight away before the paint dries or the paper sticks and rips. I have not yet tried your method but intend to and compare the results. Love your vidz.

I'm learning from you to let go, and just let my tools do the job, be looser in my thinking, not be so concerned about results. Kathe Kollwitz, along with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, et al was the inspiration for my printmaking using linocut carving techniques (using linoleum, and a Japanese substrate called 'Gomuban'). Then I became obsessed with Chinese ink painting, so I have a ton of really good, thin paper of all kinds. So this is a good way to sort of evolve back into general print-making.

Love where you're taking this.

Kathe Kollwitz is one of my favorite printmakers.

🎉😂❤back again 😊

❤back again MM

Finally, somebody

oh how gorgeous once you had added that 3rd layers

I’ve recently found your videos and I am so inspired by all of your experiments! Thanks you so much for sharing your work! Might I ask, What type of oil pastels do you use?

I love your demonstrations and your angle on gelli printing. Do you make your own plates? I have had good results using gelatin and mineral oil. You can then make them in any size or shape and they actually last a long time.