Gel plate and texture collagraph tutorial 

This technique with the creased tissue paper is a brilliant idea. Please do more collographs, you approach is unique and truly inspirational. Thanks. 😊

You are the only one in RU-vid that do creative Gelli plating the rest do the same, your work is incredible and your teaching the best, thanks for sharing, I will try today

You are such an inspiration. I’m wanting to use my gel plate for abstract art that goes beyond that crafty look you often see. Thanks for being you!

I enjoy my gel plates, I play around with simple cheap acrylic paint, a few stencils add some fun shapes and I’ve made a few pretty papers. But when I see your process, your knowledge of bringing forth textures and shapes, and the amazing pieces that result, I realize the same gel plate is a fine art tool in your hands, and a mere toy in mine. Thank you for an excellent tutorial!

You have such an incredible 3 dimensional sense. I really have to focus to predict the final results of dark and light. Fabulous effect and paintings.

I love the trees. You are really good and explaining the route you take.

Did you hear it? My head exploded:) I love this, you are so inspiring and so great at teaching us. You use the same products but always take it much further than mere mortals could imagine:) Thank you, thank you :)

Your use of collagraph is an eyeopener.✂️Thanks for all your inspiring input!🎨😉

I work in a manufacturing plant and bring home textured “garbage” to use with my Geli plate. My favorite is the thick honeycomb cardboard! The honeycomb can make great things happen

Thanks for telling us the amount of time you leave your paper on the gel plate or let the paint dry, etc. No one else does that and it really makes a difference when learning a new technique.

Your input to minor details is incredible and well worth the effort… you take the gel plate to a completely different level… a pleasure to watch…and amazing result… thank you 🎉

Loved it..definitely sparked ideas! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you. Really enjoyed watching you create the textures and highlights resulting in amazing prints 🤩

That is gorgeous! Trees are my favorite!

I've always dabbled in paint, lino, a bit of drawing etc. But man you've totally opened my eyes on how to achive certain looks that I thought would need screen printing or some other equipment heavy/expensive technique. Having watched your videos, I've genuinely never been more inspired and excited to start doing art again. Thank you.

You’re an gel plate Magician! You surprise me each and every video again with new ideas and techniques. That makes the gel-plate so much more than a simpele tool. You inspire me to get the most out of it. Thanks a lot!

I like the textures you get from this technique.

Thank you sooo much Mark. your inspiring videos have help me play more, I got the big gel plate😁. Can you do a video with your experiment on fabric?

Wonderful!

You are STILL the best artist I’ve ever seen on RU-vid with gellyprinting and all the other stuff you are learning to us about … I just got internet back… I’m bit late to comment your video… but I’m still your BIGGEST fan in Norway and nobody can’t tell you otherwise 🤣💦❤️…

You are a national treasure!

You make things seem so straightforward. Then I try my version of them and very quickly come to respect the casual skill you humbly display in every video.

LOVE IT!!! Absolutely gorgeous prints! I really enjoyed this and I’ll have to watch it again to glean the tips. First time around I was just mesmerized. Seriously stunning and inspirational. Thank you so much!

“Just one more pull.” Yes! Keep up the good work! We love it!

Really enjoyed your last video. Thank you for sharing 😊

Brilliant as usual. So many ideas to try and so generously shared! Thank you!

Beautiful detailed work. Very interesting process. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome lesson. Awesome creations. As always. Thank you!!!

Brilliant! Definitely worth exploring this technique! Thanks for sharing 🙂

Always a great day when there’s a new video on your channel. Thanks again for another great tutorial. Might try this wrinkle technique on water features…

Thank you so much for sharing this great idea.

This is So exciting! Thank you! You've inspired me!

Watching and listening to you makes me want to run out and buy gel plates! I'm inspired. Thank you.

I tried that technique with the tissue paper and WOW got some great textures out of it! Thanks for sharing that! The more I learn, the more I realize printmaking is essentially exploration and that is what makes it so addictive…when you discover something magical that jives with the kind of imagery you want to create in prints, it's really wonderful. Your channel is such a great and inspiring resource!

Loved this! Love trees live mountains! Love your vids! Thanks for your generosity!

“It wasn’t too bad”, and I’m thinking, “that looks fantastic!” Just discovered your channel. Really enjoying your experiments and seeing your work.💓💗💖

❤this is sooooo exciting, Mark! Thank you ever so much again for sharing your techniques and passion ❤️‍🔥 . What an epiphany every time I discover one of your videos and I can’t wait to get creative with my gel plate(s)!! Love your stuff as always!

Thanks for the video. I really love your tutorials showing techniques where you make a reusable plate image. That makes a lot more sense to me than just painting on a gel plate & pulling a print (as I always wonder when I see that- why not just paint on the paper)? This gives me ideas of some truly valuable uses of a gel plate, not only as a painting tool, but for limited edition printing with variations, by means of reusable drawing plates. Great ideas.

Also...If you haven't experienced this, you are going to love this one. If you embrace wrinkles...cover your gel plate with a semi-thick layer of your favorite paints. Place parchment paper (baking tray liner paper) on top, give a nice quick all-over rub and remove it after only about a minute. (Any more and more of the paint will remain on the plate instead of the paper.) Then, keep the dried parchment for projects where you need instant grunge. Instant texture. Instant interest. You just place the parchment, dried paint-side down, onto the gel plate where you want the texture (which resembles tree bark) and rub the back of the parchment with a credit card or other stiff card or detailing tool, for thin marks. You will be amazed at the way it transfers! Do be careful not to let the paper touch the plate in spots you do not desire the texture, or some paint will peel off without even rubbing. I tell you, the grunge-factor is a gel printers dream! I have tried it with wax paper, but it doesn't release onto the plate like the parchment paper will. Plastic wrap and plastic packaging will also release dried paint onto the plate with rubbing, but will not give you a tree bark texture, as it is the characteristic of parchment to crinkle just that certain way when it is saturated with wet paint, and transfers those striations to the plate. I have cut the parchment paper into shapes if I want a lot of control over where the dried paint winds up...but I am not usually that concerned about precision in my grungy monoprints.

My first gel plates are due to arrive today. I'm excited and inspired by your videos, and can't wait to get started. Your work has real artistic integrity. It takes the technique away from the decorative crafts, towards meaningful expression.

Amazing results! You mentioned using this technique for portraits. Love to see you demonstrate that too!

Brilliant. Really encourages me.

The Amazing Mr. Yeates! Thank you once again for another great inspirational and educational video. Love them all.

I couldn't see you in the intro through all the gnarled trees flowing peacefully in the breeze !!!!! Absolutely love Ur videos mark❤️

Love ❤️ your instruction. So inspiring. Thank you much!

Brilliant …thank you 😊

WOW !!!!! I just LOVE IT !!! I have been looking for this texture !!!!! THank you

Definitely sparked more than a few kernels of ideas. Just love that you share your play and we get to learn from all your explorations! Thank you 😀

Outstanding video. Thanks for all your efforts

Excellent! Thank you ❤

Beautiful

Wow!

Fantastic! Thank you!

Damn! Almost first.... I saw the new banner graphic and link to the Website, so figured you were about to post a new episode. But then I got sucked into videos on politics and upcoming elections here in the US, while I was waiting, and missed the exact moment when you posted. Very Nice Website, BTW! So glad to see it. You should list it up there in the description box, along with the donation link! So cool to see more of your work, in addition to the pieces from your video episodes! I'm really glad to see you returning to this use of the collagraph idea. As usual, you've put quite the individual spin on the technique, and the results are beautiful. I really loved the tree trunks. There's something about the crinkled textures on the trunks that sometimes looks like a tangled thicket, as much as like bark. My eye finds that texture particularly enticing to wander and explore. But then, when you printed the mountains, I loved them even more--especially when you added the embossed marks. It's excellent how the character of the embossed lines works so well with the more-linear parts of the texture, in the crinkled areas. I would never have predicted that those would sit so nicely together in the same area of the image.

Brilliant .Thanks you take gel printing to such a high artistic level!! Feels like I could do the same!!😅🤗Do in Paris 🗼👋

top notch content! awesome skills and product. thanks for sharing.

Crazy good!

Excellent ideas

Thank you very much, this video is so inspiring and helpful! Collagraph is new to me and I will definetely try to do that.

If I want a uniform surface of paint, without brush strokes from applying with a paintbrush, I enjoy using wedged-shaped make-up sponges you can get at your discount stores or any store, practically, for applying spot-color to my plate. I can achieve anything from a single faint layer to completely opaque just by dabbing on two to three layers in total. One edge of the sponge is thin for small areas, one thick for larger areas and the corners of the thin edge are great for painting details. Once the paint on the sponge is dried, I snip off the hardened part with scissors and can keep using it until there are no spongy parts left. It lasts quite a while that way, as it is not as absorbent as a regular foam brush. (You can wash the sponge out before the paint dries, but in the world of Gel Plate Printing...time is usually of the essence...so maybe just keep a cup of water to store it until you can wash it.)

Just discovered you about a week ago and I am addicted! Printmaking and gel-plate on a whole new level ! Binge watching through your videos and each one has at least one ‘OH WOW’ moment. You are so fresh and amazing! I can not thank you enough for all you share 😊

Many thanks love this technique.

Thank you!

Thanks so much for both the inspiration and the walk in the woods! Waiting for our frost to transition from "garden season" to "art season" and then, game on!

These turned out great. A quicker way to create the collagraph would be to use Matt board. You cut into the board and peel away layers which immediately creates texture. You can also emboss it with biro and stick on tissue. If you coat the entire plate with gel medium you can reuse it infinitely.

I love the trees, definitely one to try. I made a plate with glued on tissue paper a while ago but it was just abstract, experimenting with texture. Thanks for another great video, Mark 👍

Love your work! You should consider writing a book!

Super . Je vais essayer..cela paraît abordable pour une débutante. Merci et bravo

I am in absolute AWE. Incredible... thank you for sharing with us! 💕💕

Never tried collograph before... now really inspired to give it a go!

Wow 👏😮. Love the mountains.. but in love with the trees and that texture!

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Ich bin wieder einmal begeistert von deiner wundervollen Arbeit. Vielen Dank. 💫

Thank you for an amazing inspiration ❤

Ingenious! Thank you for sharing!

So inspiring, thank you so much for the tutorial ❤

Hi new subscriber here I just love your videos ( and your accent lol ). I bought a gel plate a while ago and have been too afraid to use it😢. After watching your videos I think I’m ready to try, thank you 😃

I am always thrilled when I see another edition on your channel. Your work always inspires, surprises and pleases. This one is just incredible, thank you for your generous sharing

love this idea. Thanks...dying to have a go!!

What an exciting process. Can't wait to experiment!

Love it, love it, love it!! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing processes!!👌🌷🌻

You are awesome! I learn so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing your incredible imagination and talent.

You are very gifted at inspiring people. Thanks for a great video!

You can use textured wall paper. Get samples from B&Q, add to your colligraph. Apparently, heating an open crisp packet gently makes it bubble, although I haven't tried it myself.

Huge thumbs up so now 1700 and one likes.

Your work Is truly impressive ❤️🙏🏻 thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

Thanks for another great idea exploration! The results are so cool. I have made some nice tree bark effects using some of your other techniques, such as masking tape, ballpoint, and China pencils. I've also pasted on torn bits of magazine, hoping some of the words would transfer. That didn't happen, but the bark effect still looked good. If I can get the hang of text transfer, I might have better luck making bark with words hiding it. I really love this new wrinkle technique, and I imagine if you pasted on wrinkly magazine pages instead of tissue, you might get some words on the first pull. Anyway, fabulous video, as always. Thank you!

You are such an inspiration and such a great teacher! You have become my ‘Go back to Yeats’ whenever I feel stuck and need help to move forward in my own art. Thank you! 💫

Love your videos! Keep them coming please

Wow! What a great way to create your own stencil with textural details. You know -buying someone else’s stencil is their artistic “fixed,” interpretation but your process encourages you to make your own designs. Hope I’m making sense. Thank you Mark, I will definitely try this out! ❤❤❤

Unreal! That is so beautiful!! And the technique just solved how I can continue with one of my pieces, trees I need on a background. Thank you again for your time and effort in sharing your genius with us. 🙌🙌

Wow, this is awesome!! Thank you for sharing your expertise and creativity!

You are a true outside the box thinker and creator. I really like your video process with voice over with no bs in between. You're as good with your art as with video. Thanks, I'm really impressed and you've got a new fan!

Great techniques! Always love to see a video from you.

Wow that came out well - fantastic.I love the layering and tearing of the glued paper to get the texture especially at the base of the trees. Must try.

Texture is very nice

Cling film/plastic and paper bags bags work well for this technique too and as they tend to move around each print will always be different. Bx

Always brightens my day when one of your videos pops up! I love the trees in Autumn. You can get some nice effects with cling film on the gel plate too but not as reusable. Thanks for sharing 😊

Once again you have blown my mind. Thank you for sharing your experiments with the gelli plate. I have learned many techniques from your videos. 🧐Looking forward to your next post.

Great video Mark and thanks for sharing so many techniques. Lovely woodland and surrounds. Take care from Melbourne