A hack for printmaking! I LOVE this printing technique! 

Don’t know why some people are complaining about the audio, I use ear buds and have no problem hearing you. I love that you are quiet and calm, there are more than enough loud, yakitty, yak videos out there!🇨🇦

This is genius. I appreciate that you are putting out accessible fine art content.

A crazy technique but cool! 👍

Extraordinary!

I DO LOVE yuor ART= WORK is amazing

Can’t wait to try this out on some photos or magazine pics

Incredible work.

Blown away by your patience and precision! Thanks for sharing these accessible techniques 😊

Mark, you are a breath of fresh air.

Amazing!!!!!!!

Oh my Lord, you're so adept with a knife... and your drawing, so incredible! But THE PATIENCE!?!? 🤩🤗☺️ You, sir, are AMAZING. I'm absolutely gobsmacked! 💐🙏🏽 Thank you so much. It was a joy to watch your process. I carve large erasers or lino-stuff -- the largest at 5" x 7"... but this detail? I don't know that i could ever achieve this. Maybe one day I'll stand up to a more detailed challenge such as yours. Whew! 😅 Kudos! 💐💐💐

This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this! I’ve never seen anything like this.

I love your work!❤

I'm just floored by all the awesome tutorials you have shared! Subscribed and been bingewatching... Thank you SO much! :D

First Time seeing this technique! This is a great idea! Love your art work!

Man this is just amazing! Great job.

Great stuff...again!

Absolutely brilliant! I am going to try this process! Great video! Love the channel ❤

Brilliant and so well narrated - discovered you today & I’m obsessed 🎉

This was such a cool tutorial! Please keep making more.

Hello Mark, I so appreciate your videos, innovation, and presentation. Yes, a few rough patches but you get to the point without prattling on or singing etc unlike very many people do on their videos. I'm hard of hearing but have been able to get what you are saying. You are soft spoken. Love that you combine many techniques and ideas in a single video. Hopefully people realize they can tailor these to their own designs. Keep making these and sharing your creativity and enthusiasm.

Spectacular artwork. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing

That is blooming incredible!!! Thank you so much 💕

Amazing! You have the patience of a saint. Beautiful piece.

Love this

Nice work!

OMG I cannot wait to try this technique!!! Thank you so much for sharing it

Love your techniques. Going to try the masking tape thing. Thank you.

What a great technique - lovely way (with the lino/reduction) to be able to add in interesting areas of colours and/or texture. Someone told me about your demos and tutorials yesterday - and I'm so excited and inspired by the techniques I've seen so far - thank you for sharing your expertise

Very impressive technique.

Wow! Love you technic.

Good video yes very good yes

This video opens up a new way! Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your unique ideas and techniques that have an awesome results with the use of simple tools.

Admiring your patience and innovation. You are one of a kind. Thank you 🙏🏼

Wow! Thank you!

Such a variety of techniques. Love the textures. XXB

Wow you are so talented and very patient! What a great print!!! 👏👏👏

You are quite clever and generous. I appreciate your knowledge and sharing style, which has helped me not be so intimidated and actually try to produce the things I see in my mind's eye. God bless and thank you.

Yor demos are great because you introduce everything and they are all well presented-

How therapeutic. Great technique and one I've not seen before. Thank you. Bx

You are so clever. Amazing ideas and outcomes.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fantastic method, beautiful work! I'd be really interested to see how you combine the masking tape and dry point in a single plate. I'm new to your channel so you may already have a vid on this! :)

Wow! So much work went into these and the result is just phenomenal. Really impressive work. I also have to say I'm in love with your drawings!

This is so awesome..

Super tutorial. Looks a little labouriourious but I get the idea of it. Thanks

Special thanks for the idea of doubling the masking tape thickness! You give and give, ❣

I want to go out ,but I keep watching your videos 😀 sublime

I love your artwork. This technique seems very labor intensive, but the results are beautiful.

This man is a very competent artist, great tutorial!

Great video thank you for sharing,tried once with interesting result will keep at it.

Great video❤

Great technique, thanks! I do gel plate printing so I've subscribed and will definitely check out your other videos.

Hi, this is a great technique. Thanks. Also I can hear you fine. The quiet background is soothing.

I thought the magic ingredients were time...and Patience! It's always a wonderful treat watching you work. Thanks for your amazing tutorial! 🙂❤️🌠

Inspiring.

Dude! What did I tell you? Best gelli techniques ever and now this? Oh my! I am getting out my masking tape now! Thank you so much.

You saved my day! I am not able to do lino’s anymore because of physical limitations. But this I cán do! Thank you so much!!

Awesome!

So this is essentially a form of collograph printing. I do similar using Matt board as the base. Very intricate!

your patience is world class my friend.....jeez

Thank you

So cool!! Love your prints!!! 👌👌👌 Subscribed.

Thanks for yet another informative video. I enjoyed watching and commend your patience, but have to say this is one technique I will never try as I do not have the patience!

Aww, MARK!! So great to see you. You look amazing, practically Canadian with your toque and lumberjack beard.

Thank you, I've been going through so many techniques and this one I want to try. Hot glue gun didn't work for what I wanted and I even tried some glue, the lines weren't crisp enough, this looks like it might be what I want. Really cool work.

This is an awesome alternative. Do you have a video on illustrating those scales on the dragon? Motif’s made easy 🤔

Your videos and techniques are great! I predict your channel is going to grow VERY rapidly. I hope you're prepared for the sudden success! ;^) (I do agree about the audio, but you've probably heard that a lot, by now.) A couple of printmaking matters to mention: First thing is inking technique: Consider lifting the brayer between each stroke. This will more efficiently distribute the ink around the entire roller surface, than if you just roll back-and-forth, with constant contact with the inking surface. It also makes it easier to distribute the ink in a thin layer on the inking surface, and prevents developing a repeat pattern of varying ink density on either the slab, the brayer, or the printing matrix. Rolling faster tends to pick up ink (as when inking the brayer). Rolling slowly deposits ink (as on the plate). Second, you'll be able to maintain your blended roll better if you can use a brayer that is at least as wide as your plate's narrowest dimension (or size your prints to the circumference of your brayer). Such tools may be less common, and can be pricier, so I offer a workaround: You could begin by turning the brayer (or inking slab) to ink one end of the brayer with one color (eg, your red), and roll that down on the outermost print area of your plate, where you want the purest area of that color. Then, turn the brayer (or inking slab) to ink only the other end, with the second color (eg, your black). Ink the outermost area of your plate for that color, letting the red end of the brayer hang off your plate. Finally, after the areas of purest color are thoroughly inked, then center and roll your brayer through the blended area on your slab and ink the corresponding area of your print. Ideally, you'd have a brayer that is as wide as one dimension of your plate, and whose circumference is at least as great as the the other plate dimension. The large circumference is intended to prevent the brayer picking up the pattern of one part of the plate (actually, the inverse of the pattern) and transferring it to other parts of the plate. I only mention this as the ideal tool, in case you or your viewers can come up with a common and affordable solution that can produce similar results. Large-diameter ink rollers are pricey, and I'd love to find an affordable substitute! Keep up your excellent work! It's great to have found you so early in the life of your channel. I will be bingeing everything you've posted, so far, and will continue following your work. You have great ideas and a wonderful style, full of grit. I much appreciate your contributions!

Wow!

I love this! I really struggle with carving lino these days, which used to be my favourite thing to do since college. Now I'm really excited to try this out. It looks like you could easily register more colours on different sheets of plastic too? If you positioned the masking tape different on each layer.

Nice

Blown away by your Art, I am usually Acrylic or watercolour painting but found my small Gelli plate and your ideas and skill makes it look 😉 so much fun ! Saying that was bit frustrated can't seem to find a magazine that will leave an impression 😕 do you use ordinary Acrylic paint or printing ink 🤔 Love ,love, love your video's I think the dragon was Magical xxxShaz 🐲🐲🐲

OMG! I think I'd rather pluck out my spleen with an oyster fork ! It would be less painful than this printing technique. I really did like the end results though.....

Art teacher here. I was looking for a printmaking video to show my year 10s as my major is painting so I always try to find those better at printmaking than myself to introduce them to this amazing technique. I am blown away by this masking tape technique as I have never heard of it. And I am subscribing straightaway as your videos are gold! Thank you! I will be sharing your videos on my teams so my pupils can learn from you. Thank you so much!

Only about a third of the way through the video, and really enjoying watching you do this. But also very sure that I don't have the patience to do this myself, at least not with such a detailed design. Still great to watch though!

This is an amazing video. Thanks for sharing. I'm just getting into printing with gelli, great tips. How long did the dragon take? And did you manage to get multiple prints? How many?

i need that knife!!!

Not up for trying the masking tape method at your level of detail and skill, but enjoying learning the process. Will adapt as needed. Thanks 😉

Great alternative to expensive linoleum tiles. Could you also just cover a whole piece of something with say 2 layers of masking tape, transfer the drawing (pencil from tracing paper upside down) to the masking tape, then use Xacto knife to cut away pieces? Trying to find a cheap way to do with my middle schoolers when they ruin their linoleum blocks on purpose. They get "the tape".

Hi! Greetings from Germany 😊. I like your artwork (correct word?😂) and you are very sympathetic. How many times can I use this?

I enjoy your videos and am fascinated by this technique. I have little experience of block printing so my question is - how much quicker is this method than cutting a 'lino' block? Perhaps some people would be more encouraged by an example that doesn't use such a dauntingly accomplished design as a starting point. Your evident drawing skills give you a head start on many of us! Thanks for your videos.

this is great Mark but I don't have the patience to do this.

Those are great! The cassette tape print was really cool! Off topic-- did you narrate a libravox recording of Great Expectations (??) because it sounds JUST like you. Cheers.

use a nice press like The Kanga Press

Would you bother to varnish or shellac the plate or will the acrylic hot it together for future pulls?

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Ran out of time earlier. I did one print using the masking tape. It works, but I was using too much energy instead of letting the blade do the work. I also found that the smell of the tape kind of bugged me. With normal use, it's not particularly noticeable, but working with it for a couple of hours af a time... So here's what I did. I got some adhesive backed cork sheets, and used them like the masking tape. I did a few test prints today. The paint (Speedball) was drying too fast, and the cork both "ate" the ink because of the nooks and crannies in the surface, and sort of repelled the water based ink. Maybe the i nk is floating on the surface. I'm not sure. I added transparent base for silk screen, and the ink flowed better and was able to sink into the recessed areas of the cork. Anyway, I just finished gluing the print block to fortify it because it's made of book board. I also put a layer of glue on the cork. I hope I didn't mess it up. I like the cork bc there's no odor, and suface is raised higher than even 3 layers of tape. So thanks again for this technique! Let me know if you'd like a pic.

Hi Mark, great video, thanks!! one question though on the masking tape - the surface of the tape you are using looks quite smooth - smoother than standard paper-masking tape. Is this masking tape you are using made of paper or pvc (or another material)? Thanks again!!

Awesome! I'm curious how long it took you to create the tape image on the acetate.

Love the work you've shown here, I really love the dragon actually. I started drawing a dragon years ago and never finished it, maybe I should get on it. It didn't seem like you wet your paper first, what do you think of wetting it vs not wetting it?

Really Nice to Sachs. How did you do the landscape you showed us, with the various depths of black?

How long did it take you to cut all those shapes for the dragon?

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Love the print, but that method seems like way more work than buying a $5 block of linoleum and getting down with the carving knives. I might get jiggy with this if I was feeling really creative and couldn't afford the block tho! : D

QUESTION UP TO HOW MANY PRINTS YOU CAN CREATE FROM THIS PLATE????

has anyone complimented you on the lovely fencing?

Hi Eli's dad

maaaaaan...this is really beautiful . . . buuuuuuut....a hack?????