Gel plate and chalk pastel transfer tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Hi Mark, your spoiling us, two videos in 1 week.I can’t understand why you are not over 100K viewers, by far the best tutorials on you tube. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your techniques…are you an art teacher by chance 😉. Cheers from NZ
I totally agree!
agree as well
I’ve just come across this and I wholeheartedly agree with Lynne from NZ! So kind and generous of you Mark. As a teacher who is constantly trying to come up with new techniques and processes to engage students (and myself!) I thank you! 😊
It’s so nice to see someone with so much talent coming up with all those methods and happy to share… 😱🤩
Again, Mark, you have elevated the art of gel printing by simply being daring enough to try something new. And the fact that you so generously share your discoveries with the world is amazing. You are a God-send. May He continue to bless your hands, your home, and your practice.
Hi Mark I only recently discovered your channel and have since been binging with abundance every day 😀 I don't normally leave comments on tutorials but had to just to send some gratitude your way for making such excellent, inspirational, authentic, no faff, straight talking all around brilliant videos. Very refreshing to watch a maker who chats so fluently through the techniques with no filler chat in between. Absolutely spot on 👏👏👏
Same here!
Yes, it is so refreshing that he talks about what he is working on without all the idol chit-chat.❤
You have expanded so many artists curiosity and desire to experiment. Beautiful drawing as always. I have a box of stick pastels I thought I would never use! Now I can try this out.
Just amazing, Mark you are the master of gel printing, truly you take it to the next level and then some. These companies should be paying you to promote their products! Seriously, You make me want to go and buy a plate and pastels right now and have a go myself and I’m not even an artist!😆 if you don’t already you’d be an amazing instructor for your own gel printing course on one of the teaching platforms, where you get paid for teaching your skill, as you have an incredible teaching style and ridiculous talent. Your videos are always so inspiring, with your passion and creativity 😁
I think that you could elevate the gel plate to an acceptable level for 'art'----you have shown me that with talent, you can opportunity for success is unlimited!!!! I am thinking that you and GEL WITH MARk could create a curriculum and truly make a difference---- LOUISE FLETCHER and NICHOLAS WILTON examples of peooe who shared what they learned and took their teaching to the next level----I think you guys could do the same--- also there are two people who work in oil and wax --collaborated on a book and teach workshops all over!!! YOU ARE SO GIFTED and your could bring soooo much to people who really don't have talent but who could use a gel plate along with a tracing----like ME!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! SARAH -RIVKAH
I wish I could give this 20 likes! This is a medium I am wholly happy with and actually have quite a lot of. But I cannot spend long hours with due to the dust and having normally to work vertically which unless you have a decent wall is a pain. I am blown over that it does not shift once you have pulled it and that it stabilises so well. I lived the little beetle drawing, it shows that you got some really good line work with plenty of detail, which for me has been the downside so far, not having had that much success with crayon and oil pastel transfers. The only thing I did have success with was water soluble graphite, though I was not that bowled over by the transfer. So glad you did the very colourful pull! Actually it reminded me a bit of Munch. I have been struggling with collages elements and hated them, but always thought the plates were capable of more. I will be envesting in a big tube of white, but shall also be experimenting with transferring to coloured backgrounds too, either letting them act as a toned background or to create an underlying glow. Shal also have a play around with putting final touches to whatever I am doing directly onto the piece and sealing with gel medium. You are right I think, this really is a game changer!
Thanks, Mark! I really enjoyed your experiments with this technique. I've already tried something similar with just plain graphite, and now you've inspired me to try it using chalk pastels!
I've used Panpastels directly on the plate, but due to the tackiness of the plate its more difficult to draw/blend/etc than if I were doing it on paper. I cannot wait to attempt this. I appreciate every video you post. So often I'm thinking, "why had I never thought to try that?". So I am thankful for your curiosity, willingness to experiment, and thoughtfulness to share with the rest of the world.
Mark, A top notch tutorial today that I thoroughly enjoyed. Showcasing your graphic stylings, draftman skills and my personal favorite - color! A Fauvre lover here so the color one was so good. Even though not your favorite, it still is a great example of what can be done and thanks for embracing different styles. I needed this. Agree with your other followers that you are the best! Best.
Hi Susan, thanks for the lovely message, this is a fun technique and glad it was useful to you : )
You always have such fun, and it's so "catchy". So many of us are greatly inspired, and excited, to try your fabulous ideas. You have such wonderful drawing skills too.
Thanks once again 👍🙂
I always love how you just rustle up quite complex textured drawings with very few strokes of a pencil or other medium. So talented in numerous ways. And you are definitely the gel plate master!
I just love how you are pushing the gel plate with the multiple ways you use it. I’ve been subscribed for about a year and no one else does what you are doing, a true artist, experimenting and so inspiring, thank you for all you do, cheers 😊
I thought your dog dreaming was my dog and I jumped up to check on her! Haha! 😅 Your channel is top tier, full of new techniques to try, and I love your more contemporary art approach to the gel plate! I love trying your techniques and incorporating new media into my own work. I have some chalk pastels and pan pastels that I’m going to play around with now! Thanks so much for all the great content!
Incredible! I don't think I would think of using chalk in a million years. Wow!
Thank you for sharing another amazing technique with us.
: ) a pleasure to share, was a fun discovery
Wow, that was some fine experimenting! I'm surprised and delighted at h ow well this worked for you and I can't wait to see more. Thanks ever so much Mister Mark!
This is amazing.! It is really cool how it transfers yet the finish on both the original and pulled piece are like sealed from the gel plate, it really is amazing. I really love your art style and so enjoy these very inspirational videos.
I absolutely LOVE the rich colors of my pastels - but haven't yet found a way to work with them that floats my boat - this could be it! Genius, as always! I look forward to trying these techniques.
Oh my goodness, what lush deep colors and the chalk is sealed in. Great technique!!!
Cheers Janet, glad you enjoyed it
That is exactly what my comment would have been ! Isn't it a miracle that the chalk is sealed in and the colors seem intensified ! Incredible ! Thanks Mark !!
@@mvswaaij I agree about the colours appearing intensified when transferred with the paint! Amazing. I'm excited to try this.
So inspiring! I want to try this method of gel printing. Your video instruction is so clear and it’s such a joy to watch your artwork come into being.
You are the best artist for the gel plates experimentation. I've learned so much from your videos! Thank you!
I love pastels and the gelli plate so it's a match made in heaven! Your creativity is off the charts. Thank you so much for sharing this technique!!
This technique is excellent! Brilliant idea! I see several potential advantages to working this way:
As with all offset transfer techniques like this one--and unlike something like block printing--I can create my image the right-way-round. (I.e., not flipped or mirrored horizontally.) This supports spontaneity and experimentation, and just makes the whole image-creation process easier and more intuitive.
I can use any cheap paper for my original drawing, without worrying about a poor-quality drawing ruining a good sheet of paper. Then I can transfer the image to good paper, when the results warrant it.
Partly because of the preceding item, there's the potential to introduce the textural marks only possible on some kinds of substrates that might not be of high enough quality to be stable over time, such as various industrial papers, packing materials, etc.
This technique would seem to enable, at least to some degree, mixing other media into the image without smudging the pastel components. This is an excellent advantage for creating more-numerous layers in a single image, or introducing a richer combination of techniques and materials.
Finally, according to your description, the process innately fixes the pastels to the substrate. This has always been an issue with soft or chalk pastels, over the centuries. This can be verified by looking closely inside the bottoms of the frames of pastel works in museums, where pieces hang in the same place for extended periods. The pigments tend to literally fall off the substrate and accumulate in the bottom of the frame interior. This technique sounds like it completely does away with that. Awesome!
I love your 'what if' approach. I was totally expecting the chalk to move on the plate but it behaved very well! Very exciting discovery!
Neat technique! I have tons of chalk pastels that i wound up not liking. They looked great, but what a mess - esp having to "fix" them took tons of (probably) toxic spray. Thanks for finding a way for me to actually use them again!
Thank you, Mark, for these absolutely brilliant videos !
I assume that the final layer you lay down to pull the print with the Amsterdam white is the Zinc White…as it is transparent ?
Also….I have not yet tried pulling the print with the gel medium…..how do you feel about it ?
Your opinion would be very much appreciated.
Now I know what to do with those pastel pencils!!! Great video as always, thanks for your generosity. Greetings from Mexico.
Oh what joy! Thank you Mark! This is so up my alley. A couple of weeks ago I found a 1904 recipe for how to make soft pastels and made a bunch in loads of shades. Three day ago the 100 day project started and I decided on 100 days of geltransfers. Now here comes your video and inspires to combine the two in even more interesting ways....
If that recipe is online I'd be grateful for a link
I have answered here two months ago, my answer vanished. Weird.
@@kat_ork yeah I don't know why that happens sometimes. If there's a general direction you could point me in that'd be helpful. I'm pretty good at digging up obscure if I have a little lead.
In case they again delete ...
Here the recipe in English: (in a short version obviously 🙃)
10 grams of starch diluted in a little water
add 500 ml simmering water
let cool a little
this is your concentrated solution
For the pastels take one part of this and three parts of water to dilute it further.
You really only need very little but I found it easiest to start with this every time. Plus starch is not very expensive so it is no problem to make some and toss what you don't need.
Your main ingredients are
paris white and
pigments
You start by mixing the pure pigment with the solution.
In a separate bowl you prepare a paris white dough, same way by adding solution to paris white.
Once you have a paste that has the consistency of cookie dough you take half of the paste and make your first pastel, the other half you mix with the same amount of paris white dough.
Proceed like this until you reach almost white.
Have fun!
Yikes! My chalk pastels stained my gelli plate! Baby wipes and baby oil didn't remove it. I had to do something scary and use Citrasolve (a solvent) to get rid of it. Don't know if it's the brand or what... !
Loved this! Thank you. Your work with neutral and subtle tones is lovely to witness. However, your brief foray into color is pretty damned exciting. I can't wait to experiment once the box of soft pastels I ordered last week finally arrives. Thanks again.
I love the fauvist print! I am inspired. I usually do mostly line work...but I'm going to try that! Thanks!
Wow . Loved this pastel transfer ,its like magic 😅. Thank you for sharing .My first attempt was A Tawny owl
thanks Mark. I've always loved working with chalk pastels but hated that they smudge and also dull down when I spray fix them. This is a fantastic solution to using chalk.
Thanks so much Mark for sharing your immense talents! Much appreciate seeing your technique and artistry! I’m learning so much! 👏❤👏
Fabulous idea! Thank you so much for sharing! So much potential, and I am excited!!
This is so cool. Love this technique. I will try the caulk pastel in the morning. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. I see you will be part of the gel printing summit. Hope to join that group io 14 artists in the workshops.
Your videos are amazing!!!! Thanks for sharing. I have one question, is it really necessary to mix your acrylic paints on a small gel plate?
Have you tried the Kingart Gel Sticks? My new favorite medium!
How do you clean your plate when you use pastel or charcoal? Tried using charcoal after watching another one of your videos, and loved it, but SO much stayed on the plate. I used baby oil to clean it, but wondered if there's a better way.
If there is such a thing as an artistic hero, you're it. This is fantastic!
Beyond beautiful. Beyond wonderful lesson! So many thanks.
I have a question. Why do you sometimes use white paint and sometimes gel medium before pulling the print? Really want to try! Thanks!
Bit late to the plate, love your vids and got really excited to try this out. I had some panda pastels lying around, did a doodle with bright colours, pressed the paper on the plate. No transfer, tried derwent pastel pencils and it worked! So happy with your vids, you greatly inspire me to get playing again
Have you tried water soluble graphite? I'm fascinated with that right now. I guess the w.s. graphite might move around when the paint is rolled on. Just a thought
BAHAHAHAHA ..@10:13 i paused wondering whats going on with my dog - was sound asleep.
Tried it. Very inexpensive to set up and had fun without a specific goal in mind. Will do it again. Thank you.
Hello Mark, je découvre des possibilités incroyables avec votre Tuto de transfert. Merci 🙏🏻
Wow! I've been doing a lot of pastels over prints lately, but wouldn't have thought to try using them this way. Thanks for sharing!
I agree, Gail... It's usually pastels worked on TOP of prints. This inside-out technique is so cool!
I tried this today and had a blast! It worked great. I even combined some of my chalk writing with an image transfer and was pleased with the results. Again, thanks so much for sharing. I linked your video with my fb posts.
This is such a great video - thank you for sharing your process! A friend told me about it earlier this week and I decided I’d attempt to use chalk pastels on my gelli plate before I watched your video (ruclips.net/video/rb6_9RN-laM/видео.html ). I ended up with some great textures, but I was trying to draw on the plate directly with my pastels, which proved to be more difficult than I expected 😂 now that I’ve seen your video I can see why! The crispness and vivid colors in your sketches is lovely - I will definitely try your method next time ❤
I can imagine drawing directly onto the plate with chalks was tough - definitely go with the paper transfer method!
@@yeatesmakes I certainly will. My first attempt was pure experimentation and the prints came out with a light, watercolor-y feel. Your method is much more efficient 😂
I love your experiments!!! I dont think I wouldve thought to even try this ;D
Absolutely beautiful and love the ‘freedom’ you inspire on the geli
Me too....now I can get rid of all those chalk pastels I'd never use otherwise.
Brilliant. I needed some inspiration. Thanks 🙏
Great work..a must tryout technique!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love your down-to-earth, straightforward demonstrations. You are a great teacher as well as an astonishingly talented artist.
9,I am glad I came across you. Learned so much. Thank you.
Wow awsome never would’ve considered chalk so cool great pieces too
Thank you.....what a wonderful technique,
So nice to have one of your videos to watch after the day I've had ☺️ Tfs
Great idea, can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing! You are so talented.
Thank you so much for all your ideas, the generous sharing of them and the way you make it all seem so possible. Very grateful. Xx
❤🎉❤hello from British Columbia Canada
Just found you in my RUclips feed yesterday with your unique treatment of corrugated box material and LOVED it! And today? So much fun and brings a different way of creating layers with gel prints that I find inspiring. Thank you for sharing your ideas and methods!
A pleasure to share : ) thanks for taking time to comment
What was that bit about Ink and a Stick??? What kind of stick would give those precise lines?
BTW, you are awesome
@MC Blakemore.... What kind of stick? A stick in the hand of Mark Yeates! 😂
Freezing the video, it looks to me like Mark sharpened the end of a paint brush in a pencil sharpener. You could also try a wood or bamboo skewer. I don't know how he loads enough ink to make such long, even, continuous lines, though.
wow! this is such a fantastic video. thank you! i am so inspired to use my gel plate again.
Hi Mark, have just bought two Gel plates with two brayers included.. both of these brayers have upturned edges which create lines on my work😢 Could you please tell me a brand of brayers that does not curl up at the edges.. Thanks for your inspirational work.. Pat UK
Esdee or speedball : ) both work great
I seen someone else do this and I haven’t tried it yet…..tomorrow I’m going to play
BRILLIANT !!! I am just getting my gel plates out after a couple of years and was looking for inspiration and yes I have found it 😅 thanks so much. 😊
Greats news, thanks for taking the time to comment, means a lot : )
Thanks! This is "chalk" full of ideas to try!
Hmmm, I'm wondering if my chalk markers will work as effectively instead of the chalk stick? Whoa, the image from the newspaper remains on your plate, yet the chalk image transfers nicely. MY dilemma, how do you remove the ghost image left on the plate from the newspaper?
Baby lotion and a wet wipe : )
Would like to echo many of the reactions to you work recorded here. Have just discovered your work recently, having made a gelli plate and wanting to find lots of different ways to use it. As someone who is moved by the process of making more than the outcome, am really enjoying your experimental approach. Really stoked now, so have to go away and do something!!!! Cannot imagine I will discover anything you are not already doing (and so well!) but will share if I do! Carry on enjoying your skill and great ability, as we do, many thanks for the generous sharing of your ideas.
Thanks for the lovely message : )
Lots of great ideas! I've just found your channel recently. Couple of things... you can make your own gel plate. I had a go at this years ago now, but at the time because the gel plate thing was relatively new I didn't have a clue what to do with it! Would it be of something of interest to you to have a go at making your own and see what kind of things it can do?
Also, I keep hearing on people's channels "you have to use acrylic paint" acrylic paint is the best...so what about kids paint? You know the primary school paint that comes in big bottles??? I mean why not... its not going to give the same look as acrylic paints ... but its going to give some kind of look...unless its kind of muddy and blurry... still a kind of different look...hmm I wonder if it would work tho with some of your techniques??? Just something to try if you like don't feel obliged!
I tried kids poster paint, it separated on the surface of the plate, which did give a kind of cool effect, but you couldn't really do anything else! One of these days i will attempt to make a plate of my own...
Would oil chalk pastels work for this? thanks!
I enjoyed watshing. And again so inspiering. Thank you, but please stopp doing so great work, I can't do all 😉.
Pleased you enjoyed the video :)
nice
Hi from New Zealand. A1/fabulous tutorial. Love it. thanks.
A pleasure, thanks for thanks
Thanks for a great demo. Much appreciated
Big "wow" ! That's super amazing my friend 🙂💯 Great demo 👍
Cheers, lovely message : )
Yo intenté transferir periódico y no salió
Excellent tutorial! Can’t wait to give this a try.
I find these gelliplate tutorials really intriguing. This especially so since i have a box of pastels and don’t like using them because of the dust. But can someone explain to me why using the gelliplate is better or different to just laying down some acrylic and then using the pastels on top - apart from getting rid of the dust i don’t see the benefits- I don’t mean to be rude- ive just never done any printing and am
Naturally curious
You can do multiple transfers and prints from the one drawing. If you keep topping up the pastel you can go on for ever!
I love this! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you for sharing this! I will try this!😍
Your work is inspiring. Thanks for adding to my bag of tricks to try with my gel plate. 💐🤗
A pleasure : ) cheers for taking time to comment : )
All your videos are just wonderful. Thank you so much!!! 💕
A pleasure, cheers for comment 😀
Thank you for sharing these fantastic ideas.
Thank you. Very clear and informative. Inspired for the day😊
That's great Alice, glad it was useful to you : )
Just love what you are doing … again 😅😍👍
wow....I can imagine many applications of this technique....can't wait to try it!
Hi Denise, since these first experiments I've been really busy and haven't gone back to them... but you're right, so many possibilities that I will be returning to : )
Whoa & YAY!! GAW, Mark.....you are THE EXPLORATORY MASTER!! Love this one.....can't wait to try it!!
I love the techniques that you are doing.
One of my favourite things in the world is sleep woofs.
I am so greatful I got some of my dog's on Video.
Agreed 😀😀
Which Brando of chalks. These are so vivid. They are wonderful.
They were Hobbycraft own brand plus some old pastels that I keep in a tin and couldn't really identify!!!
Wow! So interesting. Thanks.
Wow! Thank you. Superb
So amazing! You are such a wonderful discovery.
Very kind, glad vids are useful to you : )
This technique is interesting! I can’t wait to try it.
Can you tell me which brand to buy please I’m in the uk and can mainly find ‘soft pastels ‘ thanks
I think that will be the topic of a next video - in this video I was just trying whatever I had lying around - a mix of soft pastels, harder chalk pastels and pastel pencils. I suggest getting some soft pencil and kids chalks to experiment in the meantime : )
Can you try this technique using Derwent Inktense blocks or pencils?
Hi Pauline, can't help you here as I have not used them, sorry : (
Oh my goodness fantastic. It's amazing that the pastels "stick" to the plate and don't smudge. Wonderful discovery.
It works!!!!