Wow! Your use of the gel plate is far beyond what I've seen others do with. Thanks for sharing your techniques and the media you use in such detail.

@DrummerGrrrl

5 ай бұрын

I agree! You have such cool art designs. I think you and I like some of the same music groups, too. Rock on, my man. I have been very ill since about November of 2023 and haven't been able to buy a Gelli plate like I've wanted to. I'm hoping that I'll have enough money in March or April... since I can't walk on my own without falling, I just need to sit at my drafting table and create art!

Thank you for this amazing use of the gelli plate. It has stretched my ideas way past my previous ideas.

@yeatesmakes

6 күн бұрын

A pleasure to share : )

You are awesome! AWESOME, when I’ve watched your videos my head is spinning with all your creative ideas. So inspiring! Thank you

Absolutely love how you work with the bones of composition,texture,line etc.while demonstrating so many techniques! Priceless classes. Thank you so much! 👍👊 Ps- I have used quality stick glue for over 7 yrs and can testify it works fine👍

I enjoy your enthusiasm for your work and for good material to work with. Beautiful pieces, thanks Mark!

You have really changed the way I think about my he plate printing. I don’t have to fill up the whole plate every time if I just want a stripe or a circle, I can do that and not have to worry about the rest of the piece until I’m ready to tackle it.

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

👍👍

I was so very happy to see this video today. I've missed your uploads. I find myself so inspired after watching them.

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

Pleased they inspire you to get making : )

Using actual objects as the foundation for a Gel print is BRILLIANT! As always, I loved all the techniques presented in this video. Amazing how you are so inventive with everything you do. All good wishes.

So glad you posted this mark,I check KZread everyday to see if you’ve put something on,made my day!!Love your techniques and simplistic tutorial.I agree there is just something special about everyday objects and the way we can dress things up with pens ,paints ,collage etc…So inspirational Mark,Thankyou for sharing…can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next!!👌🏻

The ways you have me in awe and fascinated with the gel plate is magnificent, brilliant and inspirational. Thank you so much.

Finally! Some different ideas!! 🎉

You are such an example of true creativity. I have watched you from before you ‘discovered’ the gel plate and your mind and hands haven’t stopped..AWESOME!

I use Nori. Once I started using it I've never had the thought to use something else. It's perfect

j'adore cette idée theme pinceau merci

You are talented, inspirational and a joy to watch. Thank you 💛

Generous of you to make detailed videos of your process with gel plate - expanding the creative possibilities of mono printing and mixed media. Thank you.

So so beautiful, thank you Mark…🙋🏻‍♀

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

A pleasure, cheers Tina : ) x

Subscribed long ago, wasn't seeing ANY of your videos in my feed or via notifications... hmm... told today I needed to click on bell icon and choose All. So if you haven't done that yet, do it now! His vids are the BEST!

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Lovely message, thank you for support and helping spread the channel 😀❤️

A true masterclass! Thank you Yeates Makes 🎉

Simply put...bloody fantastic! Thank you for teaching me something new...legend ❤

Un friggin believable!!!❤❤❤

So good to see you back! As always, wonderful techniques and ideas!

It’s perfect! I love it so much! Thank you!

so glad to see you back with another vid. they are top of the heap when it comes to art videos. thx

Absolutely amazing! Beautiful!

Wow! Brilliant artwork and brilliant tutorial. Really inspired me to develop my gel printing with mixed media, both of which I've loved seperately but youve shown us how to combine them. Thanks so much for sharing ❤

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Delighted it was useful to you 😀

Thank you! ❤ Your sharing of knowledge is much appreciated!

I wish I’d found your channel sooner! I’m new to mixed media and I’ve learned so much. Thank you!

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

You’re here now! Plenty to look back over from the last couple of years! Hope you enjoy 😀

You never cease to amaze me.

Nothing more to add 😂 the comments have just been amazing and agree with all of them…thx🤩

Loving all these layers and layers of texture! Really beautiful piece of art. Thank you for sharing all your techniques and ideas. Using water to separate the paint is a great idea, love the peeled paint effect!

Thank you for sharing your process with us, a great help for a beginner gel plate user. Much appreciated.

What a stunning display of techniques!

Many thanks for this wonderful tutorial! These techniques are so inspirational!

So inspirational and generous in sharing your boundless enthusiasm and knowledge. Thankyou.

Wonderful thank you for sharing all of your ideas and techniques.

Another fantastic and creative video! Your use of the gel plate is the most inventive I have seen. Thank you for sharing your process!

It's always sooooo good to come back and see what you've done to reboot my creativity Nice. Bx

Brilliant ❤❤❤

I agree Mark glue sticks work and stay if you use plenty, as always so much to learn from this like your art many type of layer using so many techniques.

Admire and appreciate your work. Always so inspiring. Thank you.

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Glad you’re inspired 😀thanks for the comment

🤯I learned so much from this video and your instructions. I love the gel plate and now I have a bit more to work with, thank you so much!

Love how your creative juices flow.

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

: ) they don't always!!!

I am always amazed when I watch your work! Thx

Wow. Always impressed with your work and your generosity with sharing your techniques & process. Thank you so much!

So nice yo see a new video from you, Mark! As usual, it is a very inspiring project! What I love about your approach to art is how effectively you push your tools to produce unique effects in the finished piece. Thanks for another great video! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Really Really love your channel ! I've learned so many neat tricks from you ! Thank you so much !

You always dazzle with new techniques and great graphics! Mad skill set!

Absolutely awesome skills! Thanks so much for sharing!

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 😀 thanks for taking the time to comment

GREAT!! Love your works a lot!! Thanks for all the inspirations

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

A pleasure to share, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment : )

Again...amazing.

Amazing!So many interesting techniques in one Video!!I love it. It's a realy nice piece of Art.

Thanks Mark - another great video. You really inspire and motivate me to get into my artwork

I can watch your videos for weeks, they are so inspirational and motivating. Thanks for making these and sharing with everyone. 🤓

So glad to see you again!! 🎉

So cool…my head is swimming…thank you..have fun

Now I’m anxious to get into my studio to try these techniques. You have elevated the printing process for me.

Oh Wow! I love Gel printmaking but you just blew my mind! Thank you for sharing. Im going to do this soon!

Yes, a new vid of one of my favs artists 🎉🎉🎉

Beautiful …. Thanks so much ❤

You keep delivering, surprising and widening the use of gel plate art. So interesting. Thanks for sharing!❤

I love your work. Fantastic video. Great contrast between the black lines of the drawing and the white lines of the print. So inspiring!

Mesmerising to watch. Great tips and ideas here 👏

Omg this is what im talking about!!!! Thank youuuuu!

Love this! Im a big fan of texture in my work, so by far, the best use of gel plate I've seen👌🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Fantastic to see you back on here Mark. Instantly inspired after 2 mins in. You're a creative dynamite!

I am ALWAYS amazed by your creativity and skill! Beautiful job.

Beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing your process with us. Your work is amazing. Very inspirational.

These pieces are beyond beautiful ! I loved every second of it. I enjoyed learning more of how to use the transparencies of the plate and papers to our advantage. Thank you 😁

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

: ) glad it was useful, thanks for taking the time to comment : )

Waiting for this next installment has been excruciating! However, this will now be the single starter video I recommend to people I think would be interested in the fine art and design possibilities of the gel plate. There's so much out there on the usual gel printmaking techniques, but this is the single most compact source of ideas about mixed media gel printing that I've ever seen. (If there were a post-secondary degree in watching KZread videos on gel printing and mixed media, I'd be just about ready to graduate, at this point.) Only part-way through, I recommended it to a former college printmaking instructor, who is introducing units on gel printing for use by design students. This would be perfect! Hopefully, it also gains you more subscribers. I do have a gentle but firm disagreement with you about glue sticks: I've ordered a number of your works, at this point, and by the time they cross the pond, there are repeatedly places in the collage elements that have begun to lift. This is definitely true of those shipped rolled. I believe it's also true of at least one of the items shipped flat. Also, when I've used glue sticks in mixed-media work where I later had to paint over them--especially if the paint was at all diluted, but also with simply liquid acrylic medium or clear gesso--I've had problems with the glue stick releasing, dissolving or suspending in the paint, and creating in a sticky mess. That said, the three things I most... uh, /four/ things... The ___ things I most liked in this video are: The pop-art brush stroke: I'd never thought about the way diluted paint would work for simple broad brush strokes. Brilliant! Probably the number one favorite thing: I'd never thought about the unique possibilities the actual flexibility of the gel plate offers for initially taking the physical impression of a dimensional object. Triple Brilliant! Related to the above, I'm struck by the effectiveness of metal indication in the prints of the ferrule areas of your brushes. From what I can tell from the video, the stains or paint on the metal making up the ferrules create the texture that reads (to me, at least) as metallic shadows, reflections, and highlights. I love the way you use collage--something applied /atop/ your substrate--to create a background which then optically recedes and pushes your drawn objects forward, apparently above the surface of the collage. Technically masterful, and definitely useful and memorable for future projects. I was amazed (at about 5:38) at the way the Sally Hirst technique apparently broke up the paint /except/ on the transfer image areas. Is that really what happened, or did it just look that way on camera? If the transfer had been a different color than the broken layer, for instance, would it be showing through spots on the lettering? At 16:18, you scalpel an orange circle off the handle of your palette knife. What is that circle? Is it the print of the end of a paint tube? It looks like great collage material, and I'd like to make a number of them. Especially since they have the circular form in common, but appear to be individual and irregular. Finally (I think), the first print, which you refer to as possibly "overcooked," strikes me as basically two separate prints. (Yes, I've said this before, about the pop-art print with the aluminum can on the collaged background.) But in this case, the yellow stroke is a part of both competing images, it seems to me. I think the issue for me is the isolation of the stylistically different, beautiful drawing-plus-collage elements from the equally compelling, dramatic black print of the decorating brush. The isolation is emphasized by the strong, unique, and attention-grabbing yellow and black vertical elements, which serve to divide the two parts of the image. I think the work would be stronger if you had overlapped the yellow and black painted elements with one or both of the other sections, and/or had echoed something from one of the outer two image areas on the other side.

This is so beautiful and inspiring 😮 big wow and thank you! ❤

Hi Mark…..great inspiration 💖💖💖🇦🇺

@yeatesmakes

5 ай бұрын

: ) pleased it was useful

You are an absolutely amazing artist. Your work is inspiring. Thank you

Marvellous❤

Love your work!

Yates. This is just fabulous. ❤️

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it 😀

Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and process with us! Always enjoy your work 😊

Marvelous to see a new video, I love water dispersal as well !!

I look forward to your videos! So inspiring and creative!

Lovely to see another video from you. Genius as ever! Thank you for sharing your techniques.😊

Wow! I always wondered what gel medium was used for ….. I gonna go buy some tomorrow 👍🏼

❤ love this ..thanks so much for taking time to teach and inspire us..

You have DEFINITELY got gel plate skills!! WOW! Your videos are a joy to watch and full of educational tools. Thank you SO much!

youve inspired me so much in my own practice! love your creative use of materials

Thanks for another great video.

So love all your work! Thank you for being so generous with your ideas and techniques, you inspire so many of us 🙏

I love these pieces so cool to see ur process I love the art supply look like these would b great to hang in a studio❤

This is fantastic - I'm certainly going to have to try using Gel Plates. Never tried them before.

Stunning pieces! ❤❤❤

@yeatesmakes

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, very kind of you to leave a comment 😀

Always interesting. Always inspiring. Thank you!

...inspiration overload, you make it look so easy, but it ain't! - great helpful vids, thank you 🙂

I am so happy to see you again, lovely, very cool, and very helpful, Darn it Yeates, but I have missed your videos! You are wonderful!

I love your work and I always learn something!

Wow! Amazing work as always. No matter what I do, I just end up with a muddy mess and frustration so I will enjoy your process and live vicariously.

Always amazing ❤

Fantastic video, beautiful and creative use of gel plate!

Always impressive and inspiring.

Inspirational.

I have missed you and your videos. Very much. Thank you so much for this video. I wish I had your skills. You inspire me to play and learn. Thank you!!!! ❤

Brilliant techniques, and finished works 👍💯🇦🇺🦘