Gel plate print on canvas board experiments

[@a.k.6511]

Joy+Intellect+Creativity+Imagination=Yeates Makes

[@ANON0061]

Everything Mark touches turns to artistic gold!!

[@yeatesmakes]

Too kind! Cheers for ongoing support : )

[@bethmiller4266]

Sunday morning, a cuppa, your instruction and the gel plate - perfection 🫖 - thank u 🌻

[@yeatesmakes]

Fun message, thanks Beth

[@ginastefanini]

Dear Mr. Yeates, I cannot thank you enough for your KZbin videos. Your talent, clarity, enthusiasm, and GENEROSITY are unequaled. You have rekindled my artistic curiosity, pushed me to experiment, and taught me SO MANY new techniques. I am incredibly grateful. - NS

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Gina, thanks for such a lovely message. Glad the videos are clear for you and tips are useful : )

[@krisb7547]

Loving your punk rock technique! I’m a crafter, wishing I was an artist- you are an artist! 👏

[@dawnarobertson9577]

You are such a gem. I tried to nominate you for knighthood recognition, but the website requires personal information and “letters from at least 2 other, like-minded fans.” You’d think 25.5K followers might indicate a mutual admiration society😂. You have added tremendous value to Great Britain’s recognition for printmaking arts; your generosity and teaching abilities are unmatched and you bring real value to people world-wide with these You Tube videos. Well, you’re Sir Mark Yeates to your followers, regardless.

[@priskateijo]

You´re a master of the gel plate 🙌👏👏👏

[@maureensea4753]

Love your videos mr. Yeates. So inspiring. 👍👍

[@yeatesmakes]

A pleasure to share : )

[@magpiegirl3783]

Learning so much from you. Great tutorial - I was wondering about gel print on canvas - now I know it can work well.

[@Andeana13]

Love the ghost bird

[@TerriKash-NEO]

Your work is so exciting and interesting. Novel use of the gel plate ---just fantastic!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Terri : )

[@rolfhogfeldt7645]

Always a pleasure to watch you create!

[@nadjavanderstroom413]

Turned out great! I'm ready to run out and buy some canvas board to play with now! Thanks so much for your videos; it's very inspiring to watch you turn fails into successes, and really just to see you mucking about with various ideas.

[@dianeoconnor8310]

Hairdryer on cool setting works well on gelli plate, and doesn’t harm it. 😊

[@yeatesmakes]

I'll try it, good tip. But i do need to wash up too!

[@theresacarroll4597]

Love your work, have learned alot.

[@fiskerkarlen3336]

I would be very cool, if you try a photo transfer with 3 of the same images, but they are all a bit of center from the first layer so the image get this 3D sort of effect in red, blue and black. Hope you get what i'am talking about hehe. It's basically the 3D cheat that i'am trying to master. Love to see your version of it. Thanks for awesome content and a ton of inspiration. Keep doing your thing !

[@johannainglis6338]

your creativity is contagious. great videos! thank you!

[@yeatesmakes]

that's so good to hear - all I am aiming for is that people are encouraged to have a go : )

[@texturejunkies8780]

Excellent composition and fantastic idea on the canvas. 💜

[@texturejunkies8780]

I love experimenting and I never think of anything as failure but new opportunities the universe sends me. Loved watching you today!

[@yeatesmakes]

: ) glad you enjoyed!

[@maryclemons1048]

What fun to watch! Loved your experimenting with canvas board and the gell plate. Can’t wait to try!

[@yeatesmakes]

: ) cheers Mary

[@8433alice]

Wow, you just never fail to do such alive and inspiring demos! I have worked with so many media, and you also never fail to do things that never occurred to me to try, that are so useful to add to my process. Thank you.

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Alice, glad you get something from the vids : )

[@deborahneumann9162]

VERY unique and gorgeous! I have not used canvas board as yet, but definitely will now. Thank You!

[@yeatesmakes]

Have your sander ready!

[@gabischmidt2753]

Hi Mark, thanks for doing the experiment with the canvas board. It turned out great. I will try it. It's obvious that you have fun and inexhaustible ideas. It would be great if I could draw half as well as you. I'm looking forward to new experiments from you.

[@yeatesmakes]

Just uploading a video now about drawing, well sort of about drawing! Thanks for support and comments Gabi : )

[@micheleholdenart]

Just found you! These are great techniques for some other mixed media that I am working on!

[@yeatesmakes]

Good news, glad it was useful to you : )

[@joycemaurer3588]

Oh yes, my kinda art! Love it.

[@miekemiddelhuis3782]

I love how you use your gelplate. Beautiful prints and very inspiring, thank you!

[@yeatesmakes]

A pleasure and glad you're inspired : )

[@DistractedDaisy]

Just the technique I was looking for.

[@avetela3294]

Always getting new and amazing ideas! And by the way , you are using wonderful colors!

[@yeatesmakes]

Thanks again for comments and ongoing support : )

[@libbykalinowski5799]

Love your creativity! You represent a true artist’s approach to gel printing which is so refreshing. I have tried your paper embossing (a different video) without much success but I think I just need to keep trying. I don’t seem to be able to get the clear, definitive lines. Mine is more a muddle. I will keep working at it.

[@yeatesmakes]

Persevere Libby, you'll creak it : )

[@tempestinateapot832]

Bravo👌

[@sueanderson7386]

Fantastic 😊

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers sue glad u enjoyed it:)

[@allthumbs3792]

So much fun to watch you try out new ideas!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers thumbs : )

[@gloriaalejandracamacho4836]

Gracias por trasmitir tus conocimientos sos muy generoso te saludo con cariño y un gran abrazo desde Argentina (Córdoba Capital) 🥰

[@yeatesmakes]

De nada Gloria, muchas gracias por el abrazo. Fui en america latina por seis meses muchas lunas pasada, cuando joven! me alegra a saber que mis videos tiene una espectadora en argentina. un abrazo a ti tambien x

[@debicarver8958]

Such a creative mind ❤️

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers, Debi :)

[@jentai7536]

I've just tried canvas board for a collage. Wanted to do another one integrating gel press monoprinting with the collage next time. Your ideas are great jumping off points. And I thank you very much for inspiring us. Here's a question for your creative mind. I'm wondering how to hang my canvas board artwork now. Dont really want to buy a frame. Have you any ideas how to make artwork on canvas board good to hang on a wall? I mean both the actual technical how to hang it, plus making the board profile look "finished." Thanks so much, Mark

[@yeatesmakes]

Wood glue a really thin horizontal baton of wood to the back of the board. you can then hang it directly from that or add a couple of eyelet screws and wire : )

[@jentai7536]

@@yeatesmakes thank you. I'll try

[@stefaniedraeger3794]

Wow.......deine Ideen und Videos sind so interessant und bereichernd für mich......ich finde dieses Werk einfach bombastisch 😍🤩🔝 Stefanie aus norddeutschland

[@yeatesmakes]

Danke Stefanie : )

[@jennywhisconier7777]

absolutely delightful!

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Jenny : )

[@ChezNoisette]

Before I start I gesso the canvas and then sand smooth. Sometimes 2 or 3 times until it's really smooth. Wear a dust mask when sanding gesso, and also when sanding your painting/print

[@yeatesmakes]

Sage advice Chez : )

[@judithgillam5074]

Love it !!! Thank you !

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Judith ; )

[@Xenopticon]

I only slightly agree with your assessment of this piece as being like a sketchbook page. I think the only that tends to make it seem like that is the nearly-equal division of the picture space into horizontal thirds, and the large central area of only pattern. Otherwise, it's lovely and has some evocative characteristics. I also really like the piece you blotted and/or masked with, which appears at 3:23 on the timeline. That would make a great collage piece to use as a part of a layered background, grunge texture pre-supplied.

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers for comments as always, I love them. I have a fairly big stack of textured offcuts, blotting sheets etc accumulating. Was thinking of experimenting with them and resin on larger surfaces, we'll see. Will be a project for when the winter relents a little!

[@dawntoussaint]

Going to try this right now!

[@yeatesmakes]

This sounds intriguing - does the oil help it adhere to the transfer surface to or do you have to seal it?

[@chrisruss9861]

The canvas board is a great idea. I have found wintergreen oil soaked on back of photocopy transfers well but that is not in the spirit of gelli transfer which gives a nice grunge look. The photocopy transfer can be a bit strong. Useful for mixed media work, though.

[@yeatesmakes]

Interesting tips here Chris, I'll look into wintergreen oil, sounds like a fascinating technique

[@darrywilson2902]

How is it that the magazine image transfer to the gel? is it because of the pigment or the magazine paper? I never used gel before, so im trying to get the science of it Lol... By the way love this can't wait to try this thank you

[@Andeana13]

Have you made a book?

[@bettyfreckles]

Instead of using water to clean off the bird drawing you could have used baby-wipes. Not promoting the product. It saves time and trouble. It really works well to clean your geli plate as well. Thank you for sharing.

[@kateveneroso5754]

I just enjoy your videos so much, but I have been unsuccessful with the laser transfers, still trying though, not stopping, I got one to work and I think it is cause of the rather high contrast. But I like your work so much! I like how you show your successes, but continue.. great wonderful!

[@AngelBomb5000]

I had a lot of problems with image transfers in the beginning. I was so concerned about “too much paint” that I was actually using too LITTLE and it wasn’t enough to pick up the image. Also switched to the Amsterdam paints and that helped. But the biggest breakthrough was the PAPER I was using for the laser print! I had been using standard copy paper without great luck. Then I switched to Hammermill paper for laser prints.. it’s silky smooth and transfers easily. Also found that it’s not so much the pressure you use (light or heavy) but the TIME. Give it a few seconds for the paper to absorb the paint. Keep peeking to see the progress. I’ve been able to do both high and low contrast prints this way. Keep experimenting! Don’t give up!

[@yeatesmakes]

High contrast really helps, but when transferring my own print outs its definitely printing in colour settings on laser printer as well as working quick with a thin layer of paint.

[@kateveneroso5754]

@@yeatesmakes I only have a black and white lazer and so far it has not worked, so I am going down to the local print shop and see if I can do a color print out and try that. I love the work you do and thanks for helping me,

[@MsSpanishchik]

Hi there .. congrats on your awesome videos love all your ideas! I being working with the gelli plate for while but I cannot get a picture transfer not matter what try. What it might doing wrong? I used laser printer black and white and color, tried magazines and others papers without a good result . Need help. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

[@yeatesmakes]

Try a thin layer of paint, heavy body like Amsterdam or Dlaer Rowney graduate. I think Golden is popular in US but I've not tried it. Don't hang around as the paint on the paint needs to be wet. Really light touch with fingertips / palms when transferring. Try about 10 secs transfer time to start with. Most important, persevere : )

[@Andeana13]

How did you make that 9

[@gabischmidt2753]

Hi Mark, as an appreciation for your work and for a new colour tube, I made a small donation to you. Cheers, Gabi:)) (Spyderfreak)

[@yeatesmakes]

That's lovely of you Gabi. Your donation will be well spent! Got my eye on a few colours!!!! I'm getting through a lot of acrylic paint since I discovered the gel plate!!!

[@abigailjohnson328]

Love watching your videos from Canada. Great fun and brilliant ideas. Loved today's idea of using canvas board. Any suggestions on caring for canvas board. Over time, it tends to warp--not great when hanging a piece.

[@yeatesmakes]

Hmmmm…. Could try wood glueing to a wooden frame?

[@debbiecarter6430]

Thanks Mark

[@yeatesmakes]

No problem!

[@MARS1111]

Can you use birch wood panel to do this?

[@ElizabethStHilaire]

Hi Mark, I’m wanting to play with transferring to canvas board. How long would you say you have to leave the plate to dry in order to get it to transfer? I am used to the immediacy of the paper transfer! Thanks for all you do! Very inspiring.

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Elizabeth, you shouldn't have to wait that much longer... maybe double your normal time and take it from there. I live in a pretty dry bit of UK but it is cold so I guess my drying times are a bit longer than yours. : ) Cheers for support, a pleasure to share

[@ElizabethStHilaire]

@@yeatesmakes check out my channel, I too make art videos and you inspire me!! I gel print my own collage paper but I’m loving your print making process. Thanks for your reply. :)

[@jenniferroy1694]

I can't get paint to stick! I added gesso as a base and have tried to transfer acrylic via gel plate, but it is so pale - how did you do it??

[@marilynalexieff285]

Great print! You have so many different techniques in your repertoire?

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Marilyn. I'm very curious and ideas seem to come from that!!!!

[@tautau1203]

Great video as always, I love how you use the gel plate. Can i ask what grit sandpaper you used?

[@yeatesmakes]

Cheers Tau Tau. Sandpaper is P100. Nice one 😀

[@sharongrace3626]

Loved watching your process and all the experimentation. I was wondering if you use a varnish or any product at the end to seal or protect your art. I've never used a varnish but wondered if it gives a finished look. Your thoughts?

[@yeatesmakes]

If it’s something I want to keep on wood or canvas board, I use a clear plasticoat acrylic spray varnish. 😀

[@sharongrace3626]

Thx for getting back to me. :)

[@lailapaila4605]

Jippi, I miss U…So cool… Tada ‼️❤️…

[@yeatesmakes]

Hi Laila, lovely to hear from you x

[@margueritemitchell1829]

🎉❤🎉❤😂

[@mvswaaij]

Any idea why the lettering (2.44) did not transfer?

[@yeatesmakes]

I think the black totally dominates, especially when dealing with the thin layer of red needed for the initial laser copy transfer layer. Should've used white across the whole plate, not black : ( Live and learn!

[@manuelakalestiantz3191]

what do you call Canvas Board?

[@yeatesmakes]

I only know it as canvas board

[@elizabethmcentee8702]

Really like your gelli print approach. Enjoy your color and composition choices. But your sound. Mid video it drops to a whisper. :(

[@yeatesmakes]

Sorry about sound Elizabeth - I usually check levels of all the segments I record and turn levels up a bit but I must have missed one. I really need to invest in some decent equipment!!!

[@laurastortoni-hager1510]

Sorry. But I do not find this beautiful. Messy.

[@yeatesmakes]

Was really just exploring canvas board as a potential surface. It's already painted over and repurposed!