GELLI Plate Image Transfers in Acrylic Paint

hello everybody today we are going to be doing a demonstration on how to create an image transfer using jelly plates and acrylic paint if you would like to grow as an artisan you can't afford an art class we've got everything you need here at art prof critiques tutorials and professional development first of all let me introduce to you guys what a jelly plate is and by the way if you want information because these are pretty specific supplies the links are in the video description below so you can look up each individual supply and basically this is really fun it's a plate and it usually comes on this little piece of plastic and it's very floppy and it's very satisfying to hold but it's a very versatile material because it allows you to create a monotype without a professional print making press and i do recommend that you keep this piece of plastic on the jelly plate while you're working because it does make things a lot easier now what's tricky about this transfer technique and here are a couple samples that i'm showing you here is that it's a pretty unpredictable process and you can see there's a really broad range of different results like this one's very clear and very graphic this one actually transferred really well this one didn't really pick up the nuances of the tones this one came out really muddled and so the issue is that there's just so many factors like sometimes it depends on the image itself for example if you have a magazine image like this one the contrast is pretty high this one's probably going to print pretty well this one's lower in contrast although sometimes it works out just fine so the first thing i would do before you print anything go get some magazines and pick your images first because the biggest problem with this technique is the acrylic it dries fairly fast and the danger is if you wait too long to do the transfer process and the acrylic print dries on you you're not going to be able to print it if you have acrylic retarder that might actually take care of it for you i don't have acrylic retarder of course and i'm sure a lot of other people don't so i think it would be good to see how to do it if you don't have the acrylic retarder okay so what i would do first let's just do a test print is you want to have the magazine image like ready to go you also want to have your paper ready to go so this is not a process you want to just throw together like you really have to have all your supplies in place so you notice here this is a water basin this is like a big tray that i have to soak my paper this is reese bfk it's a cotton print making paper and it's really nice and durable also it has this really like pretty deckled edge i just love duckled edges so it's very important that your paper is soaking in advance you can't print dry maybe there's a way you can but i discovered through trial and error that printing dry really is not effective because what's nice about the damp paper is that it activates the acrylic which then again prevents it from drawing too quickly so you want to have not just the paper soaking and ready to go but you also want to have a towel the towel is here to blot the paper because if you take the paper out and it's sopping wet it's gonna make a horrible mess so the idea is that the paper is soaking and then when you're ready to print you take it out put it on the towel and then what i just do is i have a second towel here and i just stick it on top to blot it so that's something you want to do in advance so actually let's do it right now i'm going to take my paper and when you take it out of the basin it's going to be really really wet so i just hold it up for a few seconds so it'll just drip out like this you're going to put it here where it's very wet and then i'm going to take this towel and just press down very lightly and now i have a piece of paper that's damp and it's totally ready to go you don't want to do this while the acrylic paint is actually out that's going to make things really hard for you all right let's choose a magazine image i'm going to start with one that's fairly high contrast to make sure you can really see the range of the image and i also think if you've never done this before it is helpful to start with black because black is going to give you the broadest range of values like if you guys come back and you look at this this is the blue acrylic and you can see the value range is fairly limited i'm not saying you can't do color i just think until you've gotten the hang of the technique it's a much better idea to do black so that way you really can have like a clear image i'm curious to hear in the chat who here has done some transfer technique there's many transfer techniques there's there's wintergreen oil you can do it with acrylic gel medium it's really fun nolan says never tried printmaking as a painter this seems like a fun graphic way to create also not too pricey yeah these gel plates they really don't cost that much and they last a long time and the other thing there are recipes online for how to make them at home i've never done it before so if one of you have feel free to share the information but once you have the jelly plate you're pretty much ready to go so that's the really nice thing about that and neil is saying can you print a pic of your celebrity crush and use it for this technique yes you can but i unfortunately just subscribed to the new yorker which is very boring and doesn't have any pictures of hugh jackman in it alright so what you want to do let's take out your ink and this is the hard part is the inking a lot of people put way too much ink or they don't put enough ink but you do need a substantial amount because if you don't have enough you're not going to be able to pick much off of the magazine image so i would just say trial and error just do it a whole bunch of times do it really badly and just through experience there's like a feel that you'll start to recognize and you'll say to yourself okay i know how that feels i will do the best i can to explain it to you but honestly it's a physical experience that you have to just do many times to get used to okay now before you start inking you have to remember that you want to have your photo really nearby because the second you get pretty good cover you want to just stick the magazine image on immediately you don't want to sit around go get a cup of coffee because what's going to happen the acrylic paint is going to dry on the gel plate and then it's not going to transfer again if you have acrylic retarder it probably is going to be a huge help but a lot of people including myself don't have that lying around the house so i do think it is good to see how to do it without using the acrylic retarder okay so i'm going to put this right here so the second i get a good consistency i can just throw this on immediately the other thing you want to have if you have it it's very helpful to have a second roller just for when you put this on top and you're rolling on top like this so i do recommend having two rollers you can get away without the second one you can just use your fingers and do that but the brayer is really helpful because it gets rid of the bubbles that are going to occur and the magazine cover so i really recommend if you can afford it get a second brayer all right so what i'm gonna do is let's just start inking this and notice that when i ink i'm going up and down and side to side that gives me a much better coverage and then you just want to go right in here the key is different directions and to go off the edge like this so you can see you don't want to just do this like a lot of people they just roll in the middle and then they don't get the edges very well so that doesn't work out so great okay that's pretty good okay so let's just throw that right on top okay and now you're going to take the dry roller and you're going to press hard but here's the thing you don't want to press really hard because i feel like this is so impossible it's like goldilocks it's like hard but not too hard a lot of ink but not too much and honestly it's feel it's a physical feel but the issue is if you press super hard on this what can happen is the magazine can actually tear onto the jelly plate so you end up with like little bits of magazine on the jelly plate which is not always bad sometimes it looks cool but sometimes you'll lose the entire image i happen to like that but it's totally up to you okay so now you got to be ready to get this paper and just throw it on right away okay so what i'm going to do now and this is where having the jelly plate on that little piece of plastic is helpful does everybody see here i'm holding on to the plexiglas i'm not touching the gel plate if you touch the gel plate you could get your fingerprints on this and that's no good and then does everybody see this is my registration sheet which i'll explain in a minute i just don't want to mess up the transfer i'll explain to you guys why that registration sheet is important again just take the brayer like this and i also think it's nice just to do especially on the edges just like a little bit to make sure because oftentimes what happens people press down in the middle and that's good but they forget about these edges and so that's why when you roll you roll so that half your brayer is off of the edge of the jelly plate and that way you make sure that it stays okay moment of truth by the way it could just go to crap that happens a lot all right that actually worked out pretty well so let me hold it up and if we just take some time to analyze the plate you can see that it has a beautiful texture i mean i happen to like it when the prints don't look like perfect replicas of the magazine picture so let me show you guys so this is the plate and if you look at the plate if i hold it up like this you can see what's left over and then if you want to look at the magazine transfer i mean i i sort of think this is really nice so there's a million ways you can do this i mean it can stay just as a monotype like this but i know some people like to go back in and like paint over it or add colored pencil i mean this doesn't have to stop here is what i'm saying you can definitely keep adding onto this now here's another thing is you do want to wash this right away and actually of course i left my sponge at the sink so give me one second oh no i left the sponge downstairs okay let's just use a rag a rag is good enough but again here it's like you want to clean it right away like don't wait half an hour because again the the danger of this technique is when the acrylic paint dries it's really hard to get rid of and actually same thing goes with your brayer like don't let your brayers sit around because actually i did last night and i was like oh my god the acrylic paint is not coming off and so what i discovered is that if you get like a stainless steel scrubby sponge you can scrub the acrylic paint off the brayer but what i have here is just this little tray of water so what i could do in theory is if i want to take a break i can just dunk this into the water so that prevents the acrylic from drying this is probably fine i mean there's still quite a bit of ink here so i think that's okay so this sprayer is not very even i might want to switch to the other brayer because i can see there's like a unevenness in the center which is not that great okay so let's go back and make sure that the gel plate is nice and clean it's not going to be perfectly clean does everybody see this is pretty dirty so it's it's not going to stay perfect but it's good enough okay now in between plates let me explain to you guys what this registration sheet is because this is really handy you don't have to do the registration sheet i mean you can totally skip this but what's nice about it is that it lines up the paper and the gel plate so that you get a nice perfect even border so like if you look at my print it looks really nice like this is totally lined up everything looks nice and even now the prints i did yesterday i didn't register these so they're a mess they're really uneven like if you see the gel plates a little bit crooked or like here it's wider at the top and it's thinner on the side i mean it's up to you guys do it however you want i'm a big nerdy printmaker and so i very much prefer to use the registration sheet and what's very important about the registration sheet is that you have a sheet of acetate that's on top okay so this is just a piece of cardboard and i've drawn the boxes which is the size of the jelly plate and then i measure okay how much of a border do i want but the reason you want the acetate is because let's say you're printing and you make a big mess you have these little blotches there you don't want that there because that could make patches of ink on your print so if you have it covered with acetate it's really easy to go in with a rag and just get rid of it like that so i recommend this because you know something with this technique you don't know if it's gonna actually look really awesome and to me the biggest bummer is when you get a really good print but you didn't register it and so it's like really crooked and that just makes me sad as a printmaker it's up to you guys you can decide to do whatever you want we have some questions neil says can i use a bone folder instead of the second brayer i wouldn't i think a bone folder is it's typically used for print making and also for book binding for those of you who don't know what a bone folder is you can look it up but it's a little harsh i don't think you want something that hard if you don't have a second brayer you're better off just pressing with your fingers that's totally okay and neil says i tried to diy this use a glass sheet instead of the jelly plate didn't work brayer didn't roll as smoothly onto the glass surface i believe it was lisa who was saying earlier they wanted to know what's the difference between printing on a jelly plate versus plexiglas the difference is the rigidity okay so this is a sheet of plexiglas you can see it's totally rigid very very stiff and if i touch the surface i can't press into the surface now the gel plate it's very floppy and yes it is very satisfying to do this and also to feel up your gel plate i mean this is sort of soothing i feel like i could do this all day but the difference is that if you look at the gel plate you can press into it like it's like mushy so i believe the reason why we don't need a press is because it's mushy you can go deeper into the plate like if i tried to do that on the plexiglas if i try to like put like nothing happens so that's why this is just not a very sensitive surface and so it doesn't work very well the other thing this does not work with printmaking ink i tried it so if you have the akua water-based inks if you have speed ball water-based inks it does not work you have to use acrylic i tried i i was thinking it would i don't know why i feel like it must be something in the ink in the magazine that reacts to the acrylic maybe somebody here in the chat understands how that works so let me know if you do because that would be really helpful to know and starving artist says as these are proprietary images how do you consider copyright issues when using these in your art piece oh that's a great question it's so hard because basically this comes down to fair use i don't have the dictionary definition in front of me right now so i'm not a lawyer don't trust what i say look it up or speak to a lawyer and actually we do have a stream where i interviewed a lawyer about fair use and copyright and legal issues for artists so i recommend you guys look at that but basically the idea with fair use is that the image has to be transformative enough and what constitutes transformative is extremely vague some people might look at mine and say oh well it doesn't really look that much like the original photo you're fine other people might say oh no that looks way too much it's too close to the photo so it's tricky i mean i would say probably you want to think about how far you can manipulate it so you really feel that it's your own i mean there's a couple images here like i would be uncomfortable with this because to me this looks exactly like the advertisement like all the way down to the text this one too this is our uh hermes hermes i don't know how to say it i don't know anything about fashion to me this looks just like the ad i don't think this is a good idea to me this one is very transformative like you probably would not be able to tell that it's the same this one a little bit gray area this one's very different this one too also barely looks like the image this one looks a lot like the image so it it's totally an opinion thing and honestly the only way to know truly is to consult a lawyer but yeah that's a little bit difficult all right let me stick this aside and let's try another one because i think the important thing about this technique is that you guys see the range like literally every single gel plate that you guys transfer every photo that you transfer totally different results so i want you to understand that it's not predictable and that's what i love about it i love that i don't know what this is going to look like when i'm done so remember prepare and blot your paper first christian says does this technique only work with magazines can you use photos printed on plain printer paper i think it depends on whether it's ink jet or if it's laser i believe we'll see i've only done it with wintergreen oil and i believe with wintergreen oil it has to be inkjet it doesn't work with laser i suspect this is probably similar but i don't have an absolute certain answer for you i mean just try it that's what i would say and claro says i'm enjoying this at 12 in the morning i'm just enjoying it love from the philippines well i'm so glad you can be here with us virginia says can you do multiple prints on the same paper absolutely and maybe we should try that later so remind me if i forget because i probably will ayane says why do jelly plates work so well are there options other than jelly and plexiglas well the plexi will not work i've never done this with anything but a jelly plate it's possible i mean i think the thing about the jelly plate is that you don't need a professional print making press maybe this would work better if you had a professional press but how many people really have access to that that's really difficult okay so starving artist says laser prints yes inkjet no okay so i had it reversed thank you very much for the correction starving artist maria says if i use a foam roller like from those paint shops would it work maybe one could get a cool texture yeah so one thing that some people do is they will roll it oddly on purpose like i was doing it very evenly you don't have to you could just roll half of it i mean we're gonna experiment and do a bunch of things so you guys will be able to see that but basically when you're doing this technique i mean the world is your oyster it's like anything goes you cannot mess it up it's just you have to deal with the lack of predictability that's what's very challenging about oh shoot i didn't pick a picture ah crap let me find a picture really fast yeah you gotta don't do what i just did have the magazine image ready because you don't want the acrylic paint to dry on you okay so let's just throw this down like that all right and remember look for those bubbles because you will see bubbles in the magazine and you want to roll so that half the brayer is off the side because otherwise your edges will not transfer as well edges are a big thing in printmaking like a lot of people don't think about the edges very much and again don't press really hard because you're gonna get bits of the magazine are gonna stay there okay so before i pull it i want to make sure i have the paper ready and i'm going to line it up with the edges of the registration paper and here i'm going to hold down the plucks oop crap it moved a little bit that's okay all right so i'm going to move it back to the registration sheet i'm going to line that up okay so does everybody see it's like it's an assembly line like you have to have everything ready you can't be tearing out your magazine images while the acrylic paint is sitting on the jelly plate and again if you have retarder you might totally be fine i just never remember and chances are some people here don't have retarder so i think it's better for me to show you how to do it without retarder and then those of you who have it just have a little extra leg up okay and sometimes you can peek like sometimes if i look at it and i'm like oh that's not printing i can actually go back and do a little bit more so sometimes that's helpful although i can already see it came out pretty good okay ready let's see oh that one printed really well does everybody see how clear that is let me put it over here i'll show close up but before i do that what i really should do is clean my plate because i don't want the acrylic to dry on the plate you can get it off if it dries but it's a pain i'd much rather just do this it's kind of like you know those people in your house not going to name any names who uh will cook something and just not soak the pots and then the pots are really hard to clean later like you can clean them but it's a lot of scrubbing and how hard is it to just rinse the pot right after you cook i don't know it's difficult for some people in my house well i don't know for like everybody except for me okay so now that's nice and clean now let me zoom in and i'll take some questions and you guys can get a closer look at the print see what that really looks like okay so you can see here that the range of grays it's way more crisp than what was in the other one and then like isn't this beautiful this texture here i mean like some people get frustrated with this technique because they go oh it didn't come out well because there's all that but i love this atmosphere and actually i love how crisp this came out but then there's all this like fuzzy area as well and i know does everybody see here there's like a little bit of text here like if you wanted to you could cut the magazine to the precise shape and size of the gel plate like if you really want to plan exactly what part prints you totally can do that but it's not necessary and i'm just demoing the technique for you guys right now so yeah that's really fun i'm surprised these two actually turned out pretty well although if we come back we look at the dress you can see the dress did not pick up remotely as much detail as this one did so this is like a really crisp print that you can see very very well f coach says baby wipes work like a charm to clean the plate and roller yes they do i'm so glad you brought that up again i didn't have any baby wipes so if you don't have baby wipes just a rag with water but the baby wipes are nice because they like glide across the jellyfish they just feel good but i didn't have any so yeah but definitely that's a nice thing to have starving artist says how would you further develop these basic images how would you use these in a piece it's endless i mean if you wanted to you could rip these up and turn them into a collage you could put another image on top of it i mean you can do all different colors like you don't have to stick with just black if you wanted to do one and we can with multiple colors you totally can as well you can paint on top of it i mean it's so so fun you guys it's just really really cool i mean i think this is really nice when you want to do something fast but you want to like not have as much responsibility because it's like the technique sort of does the image for you in that yeah i mean you control parts of the process but to a certain degree the result is very much out of your hands and for me i find that very liberating i actually think it's really nice let me try to find the night is cool although this is sort of flat and boring that's kind of a cool image let me see what else we have here let's do one that's really light like this one doesn't have a lot of contrast it's very white so let me try this one as my next image and i'm going to do this one black again but then maybe after this one i'll go and i'll show you guys how to do some color versions how to do multiple colors and we can try what i think virginia mentioned earlier about multiple prints on the same piece of paper so again the key here is going in different directions making sure you're going off the edge of the plate because it's easy to forget about those edges and i'm going to place this like more down here okay so remember you got to have that magazine ready to go don't sit around because if that acrylic paint dries on the gel plate you're not going to get a very good transfer okay so again just a pass with my finger i just love gel plates who here has used one of these before who here has never touched one let me know because i discovered them when i was at a conference for art educators in massachusetts and i was like oh my gosh this is really cool okay so remember we're gonna pull this off and then immediately we're gonna throw the damp paper on top okay and i'm gonna again put my hand on the plastic that's underneath my gel plate okay so now let's register this just like that yeah keeping that piece of plexi behind your gel plate this is really handy like if it's sticky on both sides it's a pain in the butt so i really recommend when you get that gel plate and it comes with that piece of plastic on the back keep it don't toss out that piece of plastic i mean you can get acetate it's not like you can't replace it but it's nice when it's already there okay let's see how that came out oh so this one if you guys look at it it's really really grainy but a lot of that is the image i mean the image was not crisp or graphic at all and it almost looks like peeling paint so i happen to love this type of like atmospheric image but you can see it's a really wide range and again go right to the plate with the water and the rag just like this and you can see it comes out really easily that's the tricky thing is having your stuff ready to go and making sure that the acrylic does not dry on you okay and then also you can see that my registration sheet there's blobs of water so you just take the rag you go over it so that's why this sheet of acetate over the registration sheet what that's why it's so important if you don't have the acetate it's such a pain in the butt okay so let's do a comparison of these three and let me zoom in so you can see the prints a little bit better and i'll take some questions in a little bit okay so you can see this one is the most grainy out of the three and you could sort of predict that i mean you could tell from the magazine i mean if you look at this part that it was just a very fuzzy image to begin with and then i would say this one sort of midway through it's grainy but you did get these pretty sharp graphic edges and then this one is very crisp compared to the other two and it's got the grain and by the way don't do what i just did does everybody see this little blot the printmaker in me feels so ashamed right now so when you're handling your prints you have to make sure that you have a nice clean space like ideally i would have my paper on a separate table can't really do that for the live stream but actually when i was teaching in printmaking at risty we actually had a paper room it was a room that was just for paper it was a very small room but it was handy because we knew when we were in the paper room that nobody was inking in there and it was very handy to know that that was not going to be a major issue so if you can get another table that's just for the towels just for the paper because it's not a good idea to have the inking and everything so close in proximity i'm just doing it because practically for the live stream it doesn't make sense for me to be moving around that much all right let me see what people are saying in the chat and then we'll go through we'll do some color and you can see and galaxy says does the acrylic somehow activate the ink on the magazine page so the image gets transferred over it's not intuitive to me that this process would work i'm shocked that it works i'm like really like who figured this out i'm sure somebody here was a chemist could probably explain it to us i don't really understand the process why it works it must be something in the magazine ink and how it reacts to the acrylic paint that does that so yes i don't have an answer for you but maybe there's something online that explains this oh i love this carrie ann says it reminds me of when i would transfer from the newspaper onto silly putty oh my gosh i remember that who did that who here had silly putty and you would press it on newspaper and it would make a print that is that's brilliant i just love it the exact same concept right and there are other image transfer techniques tell me in the chat who here would like to see the other techniques there's wintergreen oil there's acrylic gel medium and also citrosolve and you know what's cool about citrosolve is it actually transfers the color of the magazine page this does not this is the color of the ink citrus all there's no ink it's really cool eloise sherrod who was a teaching artist here showed me how to do that so if you want to see other transfer techniques tell me in the chat because it's a pretty like niche technique i don't know that everybody wants to learn how to do this i think it's amazing and i think everybody should try it but that's just me tom g says you can also use a paint roller put a paper towel tube over the roller to make it hard like a brayer oh that is a great hat tom i've never heard of that that is really really cool ayanna says it looks like a charcoal drawing and not like a watercolor painting like the original and jasmine says i've never tried a jelly plate i'm feeling inspired to try it it's so fun like do you guys see i've only been streaming for like 35 minutes i already whipped out three prints and half the time i was talking to you like if i wasn't here explaining that would have taken me probably like 15 minutes so this is not something that is time-consuming and again it's like you can really give yourself to the process you can just totally shirk all responsibility for the image it's like how many processes are like that in art most of the time you're fairly responsible not this time maria is asking this works just for magazines now i'm wondering if any printers near me can print my original art and magazine paper and using this kind of ink yeah i've done that before with wintergreen oil so what i would do is i would make a drawing and i would xerox it and then i would make a wintergreen oil transfer from the xerox so there's definitely ways that you don't have to use a magazine sheet like you can totally use your own artwork for that but again it's like it has to be a certain rite of toner because we definitely like when i was at risty and we were doing the wintergreen transfers we were like trying to figure out which xerox machines on campus had the right toner because we discovered oh the one in the office doesn't have the right toner but the one at the library does so it's very funny miso is asking so the higher the contrast than the image you use the better the result will be it depends because i'm very good at inking and i make it look very easy but for some people they may not be able to get like a nice even surface of ink as quickly or as efficiently as i can i'm not showing off i'm just saying i've been doing printmaking a long time and that if you don't have tons of experience inking stuff it's not always that easy so assuming you have really good inking technique and you're fast and efficient you do things right away and you have a higher contrast image yes in theory you should get a crisper image but i mean i could roll it up really badly and actually let's do that right now let's let's roll one up that's very uneven on purpose and then i think that will help you guys see how much the inking really affects so like does everybody see on my roller what i've done is i've rolled it so it's like really uneven so let me just do like this and i'll just roll okay so that's like super uneven i'm gonna try to find an image that's higher in contrast so let me do this knight put him there okay and let's again do the dry brayer to get rid of any of those bubbles and this one it's funny because the ink is going to be very thin in some areas and very thick and others oh shoot i didn't do my paper okay don't do that you guys should really prepare your paper in advance i mean it doesn't take that long but it really is nice when the paper is just ready to go okay and watch out for fuzzies like i just got a fuzzy on my paper okay so let's pull this off remember putting my finger on the plexiglas so my finger is not touching that okay and then register it and then immediately get this here also if you want to get good prints you do have to wash your hands like if i were just by myself in a print shop i would be washing my hands between every single print because again like if you want to be able to sell prints you can't have fingerprints all over it it looks unprofessional which is not great when you're trying to sell stuff okay so let's press this on top okay and let's see how the uneven inking came out yeah so you can see here very blurry okay let me wash my plate and then i'll do a closer look with you guys so we can see the analysis so the other thing about this technique it's really good to do a whole bunch like don't sit down and just do one i think that it's really good to see the range of what's out there okay so let me just wash the registration sheet and i just dab this actually let me get a dry rag it's a little bit too wet also in the back like that okay so let's look at this a lot more closely let me just zoom in and tell me in the chat who here likes the crisper images who here likes the fuzzy images i mean it's all a matter of taste okay so if we look at this you can see like here's where i didn't really roll any ink and sometimes the stroke of the brayer shows like if you guys look here you can see this is the brayer going up and down so sometimes like here that's the edge of the brayer and so it depends like some people like it when the brayer is very visible other people think it doesn't look so great but you can see the detail in the night is not great like you can barely see it but i think for those of you who are asking earlier about copyright like to me this one's pretty clearly very transformed from the initial image the initial image i mean of course it's like covered in black now but it's like i don't think i would equate these two together this is pretty different than the first photo that i had done all right let's see what you guys are saying in the chat ayane says i somewhat prefer the crisper images but i like the rough impressionistic textures although i like it to be more controlled yeah and so you can see there are different things you can do like if you want to be more out of control you know like walk on the wild side you can totally just ink it in funny ways and that's totally cool to do as well and galaxy mosaic says the fuzzy images look more painterly i'm not sure that would be the finished product but i can see it being helpful with collage or just getting yourself started like i know something that i've talked to a lot of people about is just like how do i get started getting started is really hard sometimes so this sometimes for some people this is like a jumping off point this is like the beginning of a piece and then you can go back in you can paint into it you can do all kinds of things you can collage it and so you can think about this as the starting point for something else or you can just say hey the print is the print and that's totally fine too joey says is paper important what's your favorite it is very important for printmaking i'd say for watercolor it's very important makes a huge difference so here's the thing does everybody see my paper that's soaking in the water if i just took plain ordinary drawing paper and i soaked it it would get very wrinkly very fast and then when i would go to print it the likeliness of me getting a wrinkle in there is like really high this print making paper it's very thick i mean like i've had people pick it up and think it was three sheets of paper because it's so thick it's also cottony and so because it's cottony it like really absorbs it well because the thing is if you have paper that's very thin and very smooth if you think about it if you press something against that the ink is just a lot less likely to be absorbed this is very soft and raggy on the surface and so it's going to be way way more likely to absorb the paper in the ink in a more sensitive manner so vanessa says i do believe that this method is just enjoying but not creative enough i think it depends on your preference i think some people love just giving themselves into the process i think it's fun i've never done anything that was sort of beyond a demo so i don't feel that i have a experience that i can really speak from but yeah it's like some people this is totally their cup of tea other people it's not it just depends ayane says have you thought about wearing a glove during the process i'm not worried about it because it's water-based ink and also when i have used gloves i usually am using oil-based ink or i'm doing something really messy like i'm wiping an etching plate which is like copper but the problem with that is then with the paper like you can't touch your paper with dirty gloves and so at some point when you handle the paper you're gonna have to take off your gloves and sometimes taking the gloves on and off makes a bigger mess than if you just go wash your hands before you touch the paper depends on the person i mean some people are really good at it so irish says i've looked up how to make a homemade gel plate glycerin and gelatin seems pricey if ever i make one i'll probably be selling jelly plates you guys the jelly plates at least in the us they're really not that expensive i mean it's an investment and you know what i like about these is that you don't have to worry about them going bad i've never made them myself so i can't speak from experience but people have told me that the homemade ones can go rotten like i don't know how long it takes like maybe it takes a long time for that to happen but i'm one of those people who's like very paranoid about spoiled food in the fridge and it just grosses me out so like i just don't want to do it for that reason galaxy says is it important which type of acrylic paint you use for print making i would want to avoid the one with heavy body description not necessarily because here's the thing if you have an ink that's too thin it doesn't print very well so let me show you there was a green one i did okay the blue one was okay but this one did not print well so if i hold that up does everybody see how the pigment is like not that substantial like it was very i don't know it didn't have the value range i wanted it to have but again it depends on your personal preference so actually let's do that let's ink up the green and then maybe that'll give you guys a little bit of a better idea of how it changes because the ink that i have the acrylics i'm using liquitex just because that's what i had around and liquitex is pretty goopy it's it's not a very heavy body acrylic and so you'd have to try out a bunch but you don't want something that's like really thin if it's really thin you're not going to get that value range arielle says i'd love to see more transfer videos especially from laser printings of our own photos and drawings on papers for collage okay cool i will definitely keep that in mind josephine says generally i'm a bit confused about copyright how much do you have to change in an art piece to make sure it's your art and avoid copyright issues so what i recommend those of you who want to know about copyright look up on our youtube just type into youtube artprof copyright it will pull up a stream that i did with greg kanan who actually he's phenomenal because he went to reese he's an artist but he works as a lawyer now and he gives great advice about fair use and copyright and watch that stream i'm not that comfortable talking about copyright because i'm not a lawyer but he talks about some really cool stuff in there oh information on homemade jelly plates starving orders says if they get horrible you can cut them up heat them and re-pour them flat again several times oh well that's really nice good to know okay let me ink this up and this is still pretty tacky so again what i'm gonna do i have this tray here i'm just gonna throw the brayer in like that again those of you who don't soak your dirty pans who here is one of those dirty pan cleaners like me to do all the dirty work for the rest of you okay so let me get another sheet of plexiglas actually i'm just gonna stick this piece right on top and oh soak my paper remember it does not hurt if you've never done this before you may actually want to do a checklist so you know what order to do things that i mean you've already seen i forgot twice and actually i should start soaking my paper because i only have two sheets in there so you have to keep an eye on how much paper you have because i have just tossed it in and taken it out but the printmaker in me really likes them to sit there and soak for a little while so let's just start with that and let's pick one that's pretty high contrast because the ink is going to be very light and thin that one's not very high contrast um maybe these people this is sort of a cool one okay because you can see lots of light and there's dark and there's okay so let's try this one and so i want this to be nearby but i gotta blot my paper again what i just do is i i know you guys can't see it's off paper but i just hold it up by one corner for a second just so it can drip off and then i put it here got a towel to block that they make print making blotters that you can use with like a rolling pin but towels are easy and they're always around so not difficult to do okay so now i'm going to take another brayer and let's do green because the blue was better i i felt between the black the blue and the green the green was the most liquidy and therefore did not have enough substance the blue was pretty good let's try both and then you guys can see what the difference is okay let's get the green and this one i am going to ink up evenly so you can see what that looks like all right this sprayer is much better that other brayer was uneven yeah i did not like that brayer okay let's try this yeah i can already feel in the brayer it feels more slippery so the other thing is you don't want to do as much ink if it's that thin putting too much ink is going to make it like really streaky and then it's not going to be very even okay so let's get that right on top like that so it is helpful to have several brayers i mean if i wasn't here on the stream you can just go and wash stuff that's totally fine so that will be fine okay so now i'm just going to do quick pass again edges these are important don't forget about those edges okay so let's see how that comes out again holding the plexiglas see because sometimes it like really dulls okay all right let's stick this make sure it fits the registration press down let's use the brayer it is nicer to have a bigger brayer this one's a little bit too small but it's fine and your fingers do a lot of the work if you don't have a second bra you really can just use your hands it really is fine it's probably just as effective you probably just need to do it a little bit more let me just see how that that's really light okay okay so let's see what that looks like okay yeah do you guys see how light that is like not that much pulled off and again before this dries i'm gonna get this rag in here it's really easy after you print it to look at your print and go but yes you gotta clean your plate right away that always happened while i was teaching for making it rising like people would get so entranced by their print they would forget that there was like somebody in line waiting to use the press so yeah don't don't get too mesmerized by what you're doing because you can wash it i'm not saying you can't it's just it's a pain and why do that if it's not necessary okay so just dab that make it a little bit more dry and remember little splotches on the registration sheet you also want to get rid of okay so let me do a comparison between this and the black and white plate and then you guys can see a little bit better what that looks like i mean i don't really like the way this looks it's a little bit too low in contrast from my taste but again it like really really depends let me pull out the other ones so let's put this against the crispest image okay so if we have like that's a pretty big difference guys see this like this is really really clear and this one it's like the value range it's just so narrow but again this this might be a great starting point it might be an effect that you want to do but between the lightness of the green and also the thinness of the paint that's what you're ending up with let me do one more with the green and then let's see what happens so again we're going to take our paper i will stop and take a look at comments after this one i just want to get this done before the green here dries zoom out okay and i do need to pick my image again i'm gonna pick one that's like higher contrast so it's easier for me to see this one let me try making this one thicker i don't know it's hard you have to try it a bunch of times although i can feel it it's really slippery i mean if i was using oil-based inks in print making you can add things like plate oil you can add magnesium carbonate to make the ink thicker or thinner and that's called viscosity changing the thickness of the ink and maybe there's a way to do that here i think some people use like gel medium but again it depends okay let's try that oh this one's like really bubbly yeah so that that's one of the reasons i do like the brayers better because they get rid of the bubbles in the magazine okay so i'll do this one and then i'll stop and look at questions and comments all right so oh this is still wet does everybody see there's like a little puddle basically if you look at your paper and it's shiny that's too much water it should look matte yeah that's better okay so let's pull this off it's also pulling off like way easier than the black try that okay [Music] i don't know i don't like this green paint i i suspect it might be this particular brand this particular color i don't know liquitex isn't my favorite brand tell me in the chat who has the favorite acrylic brand is there one in particular that you guys like i don't use acrylics that much so i don't feel that i have a very strong preference i just know i don't like liquitex sorry liquitex you're fine and you're very affordable but not my preference okay ready let's see oh whoa that one is like really subtle sheesh i was like nah i thought this one was gonna print a lot more crisply but you can see the inking's very even okay let me just toss some water on top of this to get rid of all the acrylic and actually if you guys look at my water basin you see how sticking my brayer in the water it's loosening the paint so this way i don't have to like scrub it later on so it is nice to have these just like basins of water around to be able to fix and keep things nice and clean so much of printmaking is about cleanup and you know i was surprised because i was looking on youtube for other videos showing this technique because i was just curious to see how other people did it and none of the videos showed you how to clean it's like this is so important like if you don't want your gel plate to like go to crap like this is pretty important okay so let me zoom in and let's look at both of the green prints and analyze the difference between the two into the other green print where did i put it did it fall all right this is one of those moments in live streams that happens all right let's just look at this one okay like we do get a little bit of a graphic shape and actually this is really beautiful does everybody see this little ring i love that and actually my favorite part of this print is everybody see how this section it gets lighter and then it sort of like disappears like i love stuff like that actually this part the top part of the mannequin that printed really well so this is a pretty clean print i think for the green paint that i have this is pretty good actually all right let me zoom out and let's see what everybody is saying in the chat and i suarez says how many times can the jelly plate be used or can we use it endlessly yeah you basically can assuming that you take care of it assuming that you wash it properly and take care of it it should be fine i would recommend though with jelly plates you should store them flat because i stored one that was like leaning against the wall vertically and it did this like funny thing where the shape like after a long period of time i'm not talking about like a day i'm talking about like a couple months like it's sort of sagged a little bit i suspect that if i put it flat again that it probably would have evened itself out but i do recommend storing them flat the only time the jelly plates really get expensive is if you buy a big one like i actually had jelly arts the company they sent me a really big gel plate it was like 18 by 24 and i think on their site it was like 200 which i understand is a huge plate of course it's gonna cost a lot but if you buy a small one like this size it's not going to be that expensive and it's an investment assuming that you're not like cutting it up with scissors you're probably going to be fine okay so it seems like we have a lot of golden fans amsterdam i've never used amsterdam before yeah arielle likes golden ayane says golden what's so special about them what i like about golden is their acrylic it has a lot of body like it's very substantial the thing i don't like about liquitex is it's just so runny like you'll notice when i squirt out the paint it's like like golden like you squirt it out and it like keeps its shape that's the main difference but golden's not cheap i mean you you pay for it it's definitely not affordable if you want something really cheap but it's great i mean it's a good brand if you want to use it great question from joey hang to dry racks or lay flat on towels each has space requirements actually i can show you guys what i do let me just grab my blotters they're right here on my shelf wow for once i actually found an art supply immediately that never happens so ideally if you have blotters this is the way to dry out your prints okay so these are blotters and these are cool they're so awesome they basically are sheets of paper but they're like ultra sensitive to absorbing the water from the print so usually what you do is you have a big pile of blotters okay let me grab the prints so you would do this right away okay and actually what you need also is newsprint let me grab that i cannot believe i knew where my news print was okay so let's grab some newsprint joey thank you so much for asking that question because that's really important because if i if i leave my prints out like this just to dry they'll be fine but they will have a little bit of a wrinkle to them like if you want them flat the blotter is the way to go so what you do is you take the newsprint let me get rid of this comment so you can see a little bit better and you just fold the newsprint like this so you want the print like sandwiched in between newsprint and then you take it like this and then you put other blotters on top and then in theory you can just keep stacking them and then you end up with a pile of blotters and then you just stick it under a weight so oftentimes what people will have is like a drawing board that they put on top of the blotters and they stick something really heavy on top of that i mean when i was at risky in the print shop we had like this giant homosexual board that sat on top that was like super heavy and it was awesome and so you just let them dry overnight and then when you take them out they're like really really nice and flat so this is ideal i know not everybody has blotters i would not put them between towels i think towels probably would not make it very flat i mean i think if you don't have blotters just get a lot of newsprint and maybe do like two sheets of newsprint instead of one stick it under a drawing board with a weight that's probably good enough the blotters are nice but you don't have to have them like you totally will live without the bloggers okay let's try the blue and see what happens with that so actually i have to do a little bit of cleanup before we do that so let me just oh man this is like really really dirty but take care of your brayers i mean you can really ruin a brayer if you don't wash it it can be a problem and if you're in a print shop you guys don't want to be that person who's known for not cleaning their stuff printmaking it's a community experience in a print shop and oh my god it's so annoying when people don't clean up after themselves especially lithography i don't know if anyone here has done lithography but there's this one thing where you're constantly using cheesecloth with gum arabic and there was always somebody who didn't snap their cheesecloths if you're a lithographer you know what i'm talking about if you're not don't worry okay so i'm just gonna take another sheet of plexi i'm just gonna stick that on top okay so i'm gonna move these prints oh i did find the green one okay this is the other green one yeah this one's i don't like this one that one's not that great okay i need to get my paper ready getting the hang of this okay my towel i mean there's a lot of fancy print making stuff you can get but it's like this stuff works just as fine the towel is fine okay and now i need to also pick my picture so let's find one maybe we'll do this one yeah actually the new yorker is not a good magazine for this like they don't have a lot of full out photos so you probably want to get something that's a little bit more image heavy who here is in new york or dork confess actually my confession with the new yorker is i always read the cartoons first i never read the articles first the cartoons are great like i love raw shasta and oh my god they're so funny okay let's do the blue and and by the way you guys will notice that i took the time to really like dry off my brayer like if you have a wet sopping brayer it's not pretty so make sure everything is like bone dry that's very important okay let's try this see this is drippy but it's not as droopy as the green see how that is generally speaking if you guys see streaks like does everybody see the streaks that's not good like this is really uneven this is terrible let me make it a little more even and then you guys can see oh this sprayer sucks it's like not even this is not a good brayer shoot it's not rolling very well anyway it'll be fine on the gel plate it's just on the plexiglas it's not that easy okay the sprayer is really bugging me like i can see the little streaks that it's making it's kind of annoying i mean this is where like inking looks really easy but it's not it actually really is a skill and it takes time to get the feel of it oh shoot now i just got some blue here that's why you want to have a rag nearby to get rid of that okay so let's stick this on top [Music] and using the dry brayer to get rid of all the bubbles which there are many right now [Music] okay i'm very curious because the blue one i got earlier when i was testing yesterday was actually pretty good i wasn't expecting the blue to come out that good okay oh geez that looks like nothing i don't know it's hard to tell okay let's try that and virginia thank you so much for the reminder about double printing let's do that next so that way i don't forget [Music] when i first started teaching i was really young i was like 27 i was teaching at school and museum of fine arts and i remember having all these goals i was like i'm not going to be one of those professors who can't remember students i'm going to remember every student i am not going to be the absent-minded professor and i totally am now i mean when i was at risty students would say hi to me and i'm like i don't know who you are it's terrible so bad but once you get past a thousand students it's uh it's really hard to keep track of people okay let's try this oh my god that looks terrible like nothing happened look at what the hell that's so weird i wanna do another one what's wrong with the blue it looks so bad this is gonna happen when you guys are doing this process you're gonna have some prints that are just total bombs and that's okay that's again part of the process oh by the way the green brayer i didn't put it in my water bed i should do that okay let's get rid of the blue i'm gonna try one more and then let's do the double print because like the blue really worked out well in my last one i don't know why it was such a bust this time but again that that will happen i mean that's where sometimes these techniques are frustrating where it's like you spend all this time doing stuff and then it's like ah that totally did not work out but i'm also glad to not be a ceramicist because i'm happy my work doesn't explode in the kiln does anybody here do ceramics i never really learned ceramics at the college level i knew enough to teach it to elementary school students but that was kind of it okay you know i'm gonna switch brayers i don't like the sprayer it's kind of bothering me so i'm just gonna stick it in the water bin and i'm gonna switch to the little one which is not ideal either but might be better than the other one actually oh shoot i didn't do my paper okay you see how easy it is to forget all these things right checklist is definitely really good there there is a book one of my favorite authors etul gawande he's a surgeon in boston i love his writing he writes all these books about medicine and i i just think he's amazing and he wrote a book called the checklist manifesto and he talks about different situations where pilots and surgeons and architects and engineers have used checklists to make sure that they're doing everything they should do and it's really really interesting to see like wow i mean i have checklists for our live streams like if you look at my desk there's a checklist for every type of live stream that we do because i can't keep track of the order most of the time it's just really challenging this blue is like i don't know maybe i just got lucky yesterday at that one blue print that worked out really well or sometimes it's the magazine picture like sometimes the magazine picture just isn't that great okay so it's like there are a lot of factors that are just out of your control for this technique which if you're looking for a change of pace that this is a great way to just take a little vacation from yourself sometimes people it's like you get art block or you feel burned out and just like doing something different it just feels good okay so let's pull that off oh it's really sticking maybe this one's gonna pull the other one it pulled off like too easily maybe this is gonna be better okay but again i have some blue crap here all right let's try this all right so we have a comment from starving artist who says try printing a black one over that blue fail oh that's a great idea i should definitely do that yeah because then you guys will be able to see it more clearly although it would be cool to see what it looks like on one that did print well i mean you never know [Music] okay so let's see how that one comes out oh that one came out much better yeah actually i really like that that's kind of a cool print let me wash this and then we'll take another look at the blue ones and then i'll do the double colored print which i'm excited to do i mean that that's what i love about printmaking is oftentimes the color in a print it's layered color it's not mixed color like you have in painting and so that's something is like when you see a color like through another color it's beautiful like especially aqua tints or linoleum blocks really really cool okay so we have three prints in blue i'm going to zoom in so you can see them a lot better okay grab the other ones okay so we've this one the blue fail they have this green one and the very clear-cut what happened to my other blue one you guys should see i'll take a picture so you can see what a mess this place is i did see the other blue one that i did that really this one this is one i did yesterday so this one came out very clear but this one also came out pretty good too i mean i i feel like some of it is that this one has a lot of white and so maybe that made it easier like this one also had a lot of white like maybe the contrast in this one was just not good enough to really pick up enough because if you look at the magazine you can see there's just a lot less ink there so yeah that's pretty cool okay let's try a super high contrast black one on top of my blue fail let me just take a quick break and i want to see what people are saying in the chat nova says the fail one could be a nice textured background for another work oh absolutely yeah the world's your oyster as far as these goes daniella says i just found your channel a couple weeks ago i'm loving your content i'm wondering do you have any videos on creating prints on your own original artwork we don't but my suggestion which i got from songkang who's done tutorials with us is if you can work with a local printer because the local printer will get to know your work they'll be able to make recommendations there's a lot of on-demand stuff but if you really want like quality stuff that you can control what it looks like a local printer is definitely the way to go if you can i know not everybody has that option nova says the tragedy of a bad brayer i feel the hurt yes so f coach says recently found out manufacturers recommend not storing the jelly plate on the acetate sheets that it comes with they can cause permanent recesses on the surface from trapped air bubbles oh well that's good to know i didn't know that ben gurley says liquitex has an artist line the one that you are using it's student grade and that's why it's runny yeah this is basics so this is not the pro grade i mean they're very affordable but they are almost not really like acrylic paint in a way so to me they're not that representative of like good acrylic paint but again it's like it depends on your budget and again this is just what i had and sometimes you just have to do that and sometimes it's good to see what not so great paint can do okay i'm gonna pick this one a little bit more deliberately because i want like higher contrast let me see i have a couple that fell on the floor hang on actually maybe this one will be good this one has some pretty good contrast but it also has some highlights yeah let's go with this one okay um oh this is the one i'm going to print on okay so again this is where the registration sheet is very important because if i don't use the registration sheet i just try to eyeball is not going to work out so very important to have that as an option um because what i'll do is i'll take this and i'll stick it on top and i'll line up the corners and in theory it should work i mean if you're a really dorky printmaker and you want something really precise you can buy these things called registration pins and it's a whole process but you get it perfect if you use registration bins this is not perfect it's good enough for what i'm doing but if you're like a professional printmaker registration sheets are definitely the way to go all right let me go back to my black sheet of plexiglas and i'm gonna wash the good brayer which is this orange one right here because note to self that prayer was not good i mean printmaking it's like i feel like half of printmaking is cleaning that's not the case with paints i mean when you painters complain about washing brushes i'm like you guys do not understand how much work it is to clean stuff for printmaking it's so much work especially for the more complex processes like etching or lithography it's just oh my god you're just wiping and wiping and wiping it's like [Music] i need those people anybody here seen coming to america that scene in the beginning where eddie murphy has all these servants to do things for him and so one thing that they do is that they don't let him use the bathroom by himself and he has quote wipers that's what this is i'm like i need some wipers to like help me wipe everything for print making okay make sure it's really dry you don't want this to be wet at all okay all right let's move this and also because i have drippy stuff all over my registration sheets okay and now let's go back to the black ink okay oh it's still a little bit wet but you know what though i don't wanna ink on top of that so instead i'm gonna take one of these sheets of plexi oh that has crap on it too that also has crap on it we'll just i'm running out of space now i can do it here okay all right i'm going to get out some black ink like that and i have my magazine image ready to go this sprayer's much better that other one was bad i kind of like brand it bad only good for the back part not good for inking i feel bad i feel like i'm shaming that prayer [Music] okay and let's try that do i have it yep i do have one clean braider left to get rid of those magazine bubbles [Music] oh there's a lot of bubbles in this one cheese you really sometimes you can just push them out with your hands but the brayer helps too come on okay let's do another pass like this okay let's pull that i really hope this one has enough contrast to make a difference oh it looks like it does okay let's see all right i really hope that lined up okay okay i'm so excited to see what this is going to look like i i just love layered colors it's just so fun because you can't really get that effect any other way like even in painting if you're layering it's just not the same thing something about that impression okay let's see moment of truth ah the registration's not good that's all right but that's a cool image so see registration sort of sucks i mean a lot of people might not care i do but but again if i wanted it perfect i would have done registration pins so let me um clean my plate and then i'll show you guys closer up what that looks like and you can do other things like you can do what's called a rainbow roll where it's like you can make the top part blue and then roll it so the bottom part is black there's lots of fun things like that that you can do as well okay so let's put that aside wipe down my registration sheet and let me pull this in so you guys can see better what's going on okay now you can see a lot better and by the way i'm going to give a shout out to tom g thank you so much for the super sticker we greatly appreciate your support we need your support to stay up and running and so any amount that anybody here can contribute is enormously helpful to make sure that our content stays 100 free because we don't have a pay wall and we need your support for this to keep going okay so if you guys like really look at that like do you see how you can see the blue like coming through the black and then oh i love this like this one came out really well actually so thank you so much i think it was starving artist who recommended putting like a very graphic black color on top of the other blue one i'm very curious to see what might happen on the other one so i'm gonna do one more because this one i feel like i didn't get to take advantage of the two images really interacting so let me just toss my paper in oh no i don't need to do that because i already have the print duh okay hang on ah shoot i got see this is why you don't want to like mix your inking station with your paper that's not a good idea where did i put these next time i'm going to have to be more organized about how i store my prints during the stream let's just do this one this is fine okay now maybe a little bit more blue not blue black oh and i have to pick a picture let's do this one this one's pretty high-res not high-res high contrast [Music] okay oh this is so much better you see it's like the brayer you have and the ink you have is all the difference in the world when you're doing printmaking let's get this on top i mean you can see when you're not teaching this goes pretty fast you can whip out a lot of prints really quickly [Music] okay and if this happens you know you can do you can just like tear the edges and have no border that's okay too okay ooh that came out really cool okay ready oh it's off the registration oh shoot i need that to fit better there we go okay all right i can already tell from looking at the plate that the graphic shape really came out nicely okay let's try that all right ready let's see oh the registration sucks ooh that's really cool so do you guys see it's like a really different effect because you can see like the shape underneath the shape the other one was a little bit more straightforward so let me clean my plate and then i'll do a comparison so you can see how different the approaches this one i didn't ink enough i feel like i don't know but sometimes it's nice when it doesn't ink evenly sometimes it's nicer when the black is a little bit more minimal because then you can see the blue a little bit more clearly okay let me get a little bat and i'm going to zoom in so all of you can see the image better okay let me get the other one which is on the floor okay so does everybody see here there's almost these like little dots in the background that's where the ink was not that even i don't know if you guys can see this but there's a little bit of the arch of the blue that's underneath the black and then there's like a little shape of blue down here that pops out and then you can see like this blue coming through like i i just love this to me this is such beautiful effects that you can't get this any other way okay so then if we look at this one in some ways this one's more boring because it just feels like black on top of blue i mean it's cool i'm not saying there's anything wrong with that but in my opinion this is more exciting because it's like you're really starting to take advantage of some of the differences in the images like the overlap becomes way way more visible elisa says there's nothing quite as painful as cleaning the print shop at 4am when you have to have crit at 8am i feel you irish says what if you layer cmyk just like in a printer would it be muddy or similar to a silk screen print probably more like a silk screen i mean usually in print making the colors don't merge they really just go on top of each other dylan's asking how does the magazine image transfer to the jolly play i have no idea i'm sure there's some chemistry explanation i just know it works it's like sometimes people like how does lithography work i'm like i i don't know like you just there's like resist water oil thing i'm like i have no idea i'm gonna give a shout out to bridget thank you so much for the super sticker we greatly appreciate your support lisa says i had to pause for cleanup it was a mess it's a mess it's a lot of cleaning printmaking is not something that you can just throw together i mean it takes time it takes a lot of space i'm gonna take a picture of my space you guys will be very impressed by the mess that i've created everybody i would love for you to join me in the art prop discord after the stream immediately afterwards i will be in the art alongs channel discord invite link is in the video description below and you're going to want to join because you don't want to be at the uncool kids lunch table you want to be cool like the rest of us subscribe to the art prof youtube channel so you can continue to grow and develop as an artist and i want to give a big thank you to our top patreon 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Channel: Art Prof: Create & Critique

Views: 4,166

Rating: 4.9382238 out of 5

Keywords: image transfer, magazine transfer, gelli plate image transfer, image transfer technique, gelli plate magazine transfer, gel plate image transfer, gelli plate transfer, gelli plate photo transfer, gel plate photo transfer, gel plate magazine image transfer, gelli magazine transfer, gelli printing photo transfer, gel printing with magazine images, magazine image transfer gelli plate, gel press image transfer, gelli arts image transfer, image transfer techniques

Id: WP6vtTS9kT4

Length: 92min 16sec (5536 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 20 2021