Lovely message, thanks :) Glad to know some of my vids are appealing to collage artists

Cheers Paul, great to know you're still tuning in : ) Thanks, too, for encouraging words

Glad you enjoyed : )

Lovely message Gabi, thank you : )

Sage advice, cheers!!!

Oh that IS sage advice, thanks!

Lol! I'll take that!

Hi Do, glad you like the videos and the tips are helping ; )

A pleasure Sue :)

Cheers Rolf, thanks for kind comment : )

Thanks Ave, greetings and much love to you and Spain - es un pais muy amable xx

@@yeatesmakesYour Spanish as perfect as your artwork : ) and yes, just because of the sun it is a very pleasant country.

@@avetela3294 la gente tambien es gentile. mi espanol no es perfecto. espero, una dia si estudio

pleasure : )

Cheers Lynette, very kind to donate. keep yelling, one day i'll hear!!!

Glad you're inspired, there's loads to discover with gelli printing

So pleased to read some of my techniques have opened up some options for you. Hopefully you won't lament lino cutting too much - life pushes us sidewards sometimes, but sounds like you are quickly gonna be onwards and upwards : ) all the best x

Hi Vik, lovely comment, thanks so much. I'm going to use some of the ad money and donations to buy a bigger plate. Planning on keeping the materials in the vids simple in hope they are more accessible and cut down on buying loads of stuff, particularly plastics. Hoping your recovery goes well, you sound like a pretty active person so the baby steps needed must be frustrating. Much love, Mark

: ) a pleasure

I'd like to say the mishap was because I was focusing on filming also, but its really not!

Cheers Joan, enjoy the Paul Klee book. : )

I think I made it look more complex than it needs to be!

Absolutely! I was winging it, improvising and thought i'd post my first dabble. Yourself and Marjike have already come back with suggestions that would improve the process!!!11

Lovely message, thanks Judy : )

Cheers fanciful, glad you enjoyed. Those little stencil shapes are so useful in loads of ways for all sorts of prints : )

Hi there, i tend to show most of what goes wrong or what I'm not happy with!!!! Your tip is, of course, totally spot on! That's the joy of putting experiments up on KZfaq, it gives a little nudge to people but, in the comments, I get loads of diagnosis back!!

@@yeatesmakes 😀 yes, you certainty give nudges. I've received a large gel plate for Christmas, and it's been sitting on a shelf, silently mocking and intimidating me ever since. Your videos have given me some tricks on how I may start dealing with it though. I love your large "collage" type prints using laser prints for some layers. I usually use my gel plates to make collage papers for backgrounds in my mixed media stuff, and I have made some small booklets printing the papers on the gel plate, and that's all been fun. I guess I'll just have to resort to making an actual appointment with my big gel plate in my calendar (that usually tricks me into doing stuff)...

: ) Cheers

: ) cheers Leanne

Would normally wipe it on the apron, or trousers!!!

Cheers Silke, just checked pochoir prints out, fascinating! I'll investigate more. Thanks for tip : )

E. A. Seguy was an amazing exponent of pochoir.

A pleasure jeka, lovely to know you're still tuning in ; )

Will be cutting a piece this week : )

@@yeatesmakes It will change your Gelli plate life! Although it obviously does make it harder to just print a section of the plate, but it’s easily removed to do that

great to know theresa, thanks for positive comment : )

Cheers Fran, very kind : )

That's the danger of filming a process as I am trying to work it out!!!! Sorry!

Lol! Most of what i make feels like a happy accident, when it goes well that is¬!!

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A pleasure to share, hope you had fun on your plate ; )

@@yeatesmakes Thanks! I did! Made quite the mess. : )

Thanks Mary, that's a really kind message : )

I reckon it has legs, plenty of ideas forming having done the experiment! Cheers for comments Kathy : )

: ) Cheers Sandra

Works pretty well, you get a lovely smooth finish but with some patches of interesting texture, fairly defined edges etc. worth a go!!

A pleasure Marie-Jose : )

A pleasure Mieke, and thanks so much for support : )

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Cheers Joyce, glad you got something of use : )

Do it, I reckon there's loads of scope for developing all sorts of drawings into interesting designs : )

A pleasure Susan : )

oooh, there's a challenge!!!!

: ) Thanks

x Cheers P

Its fun, kind of a puzzle to solve as you work and make decisions!

A pleasure Tracey, lots of joy to find in Klee's work

Cheers Reni, as other comments suggest, I've made it more laborious than needs to be in!!!!

Hi Dana, let me know how it goes!

Cheers Magda, great to know you're still tuning in : )

: ) Cheers Anastacia

Cheers avenger, hope it goes well : )

: ) glad you enjoyed

Great news, hope you have fun : )

Its a fun way to work, kind of a lose plan but lots of room for improvising !

Cheers Catherine : )

I wasn't laughing at the time! I think its best to put the mishaps in, best reminder for others to avoid the same! Cheers for comment and support Rebecca : )

I love seeing the process of mistakes turned into successes. I would have done the same thing with the black covering the drawing. Thanks so much for showing and explaining the how and why if this stencil process.

Seems a few of you have sharper focus than me!!!!

@@yeatesmakes only paying attention to what you are doing and not distracted by trying to film and talk at the same time. Easier for me. You do such a great job.

Hi Toni. I know Faith Ringold's work and love it but had never come across Romare Bearden - oh my, its beautiful. Obviously you knew the collage would be right up my street but it is his incredible compositional sense that hit me first, wow. I'm going to investigate more. Thanks so much for the heads up ; )

Hi Dawna - are you doing art with the people in the home?

@@yeatesmakes Yes. Projects have to be scaled by physical ability, etc. There is a range of abilities from down-right professional to simple experimentation.

Lol!

scribble scribble then plot your best line!!!!

I'm with you on the torn edges!!!!

Hi there, thanks for such a sweet message, its a pleasure to make videos and even more that they resonate and are of use!

Cheers Josephina : )

A pleasure, and thanks for all the support Bev x

Hi Tricia - I think the Monet might be a bit beyond me on a gel plate. They are so massive! A smaller approximation maybe...

@@yeatesmakes I think small scale- maybe 8 x 8 would be terrific.I am I interested in these collaged cradled wood panels I see out and about in galleries.Truly I am just intrigued by your art projects and techniques especially the gel plate creations chine colle/collograph designs.❤️

Hi Marijke, love your comment, love your thinking. The good thing about filming a first try at an idea is that people are, like yourself, going to see ways in and around. Learning together! You could just paint with brushes of course! But I really like the texture and even coverage you get with gel plate and, as you say, its an easy way to get a neat transfer of the shape you want. I'm going to try your double hinge technique - will save on some of that reassembling and reducing stencils shapes all on the one sheet. You could use them again far more easily. Such great feedback, thanks again : )

If I'm understanding your description, the issue I see here is that you'd once again be printing over the drawing. Either that, or you've got to figure out how to cut the subsequent paper shapes from the side of the paper not in contact with the plate, either 1) without removing the drawing from your hinge (if it's flipped off of the gel plate) or 2) without cutting your plate (if the drawing is flipped onto your plate). Gelli Arts makes a registration tool that could simplify this process: See "Gel Printing With the New Gelli Arts® Perfect Placement Tool by Marsha Valk" (at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y66KdZeEv9zWkWg.html ). You'll have to watch that video for the rest of this to make sense, but it's probably worth it: It should be relatively straightforward to make a similar device out of stacked corrugated cardboard L-shapes. Use small strips of the same cardboard to register the paper and stencil against, in place of their more-complicated peg system. You'll sacrifice flexibility, but you'll get similar results for a lot less money. You'd likely have to construct a registration L-shape for each unique combination of different-sized paper and/or gel plate. But if you cut your stencil from the same size sheet as the paper you're printing on, both should align properly against the same braces (/on/ the L), while the gel plate aligns nestled /into/ the L. (This will make sense, once you see the video. It's really a clever and simple method.) Love the resulting images, Mark, both in this one and the Matisse style that preceded. However, there are some significant audio issues in this one, again. The sound levels are all over the map. Either I lose some of what you say, or other parts of the video (and the ads!) BLAST out of the speakers. Or out of my headphones (which is worse, at least from a cardio-vascular perspective). Still, beautiful and playful results, yet again.

@@yeatesmakes Well, i tried my idea and I have to say, not much advantages. only one was that I didn't have to pick up the gelli plate each time. The solid covering of the shapes work better when you ink up the whole plate. Besides I had to do a lot of washing and drying the gelli plate and my palette on the side. Had to do as much of cutting and reassembling as you did. So, for me , not a success but had a few hours of playing and that was of course the best part of it.

@@Xenopticon So sorry about audio - and your ears!!!! No matter how many times I saved it, parts came out out of synch and levels went weird. The mission this year is to get some decent audio and visual equipment!!! haven't come across the placement tool - cheers for the heads up. Sure I'll be able to rustle something similar up. As ever, your feedback add so much to the channel and all our learning. Hugely appreciated. : )

@@Xenopticon I have made a registration L-shape that works wonderful with my (reduction ) lino-cutting. Never thought of using it here. The drawing side came on the gell plate and when I flipped it over, I could cut into it easily, so that was no problem .

Hi there, someone commented on one of the videos recently that mixing a tiny bit of washing up liquid with watercolours helps them settle on the plate without separating. Gonna try this in a video soon :

@@yeatesmakes Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. I saw recently that if you brayer on gel medium before you add the watercolour then it spreads out evenly. Thought you might like to know! Take care!

Cheers Brenda : )

Lol, by the time I'd finished I realised I could have made it simpler!!! I guess I'm saving paper at least!

Hi Bob. I think you'll have to experiment with thickness of paper, I was using 140gsm. More important is the amount of paint - an even but slightly thicker layer than you'd use for image transfer. working quick and adding the requisite pressure to work up to the edges of your cut stencil is also important : ) My brayers are a mess! I usually just use scrap paper then soak and scrub 'em later!

Next time!!!.... I might have another go but this time planning out the piece more carefully so I know which colours are going where before I start. This way your great suggestion of four copies will make a difference and mean I could do a few prints - my weird taped together stencil was fit for the bin by the end of the video!!!!

@@yeatesmakes : You are my all-time favorite artist to watch on KZfaq! 😃 I've learned so much from you; I feel like I'm watching my college professor! You motivate me to think outside the box and stretch myself as an artist. 🎨 THANK YOU!!! 💕

Hi there, I have a few brayers and just clean them, either on scrap paper or in the sink, as I go.

Absolutely!!! As long as you plan the piece out first - I didn't!!!!

Hi Marianne - don't despair! Myself and no doubt others who view the channel and regularly comment will help! What brand is the gel plate? What paper? How long did you leave it on the plate? How much paint? That will help me diagnose a few things!!!