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Intetesting!

Your work is great and it inspires me to get busy doing some of the same! You’ll do well with your art.

Hooray❣️I hope you enjoy the course immensely. Thanks for fitting the video into your busy days. Such a treat to see the wonderful cards and hear all about it. I love your books and how much variety you create with cut and painted paper.

Looks like a Tiger’s Eye gem 😊

Hello Kirsten! > *waves from Vancouver* < First off, a big huge hearty CONGRATS on getting into the course you are interested in. Whew, what an accomplishement. Thanks for the flip through; I am quite taken with your collage vases with foliage and had to pause the video to go make a few myself. I sense an new collage obsession with these. (They kind of remind me of Helen Wells who is my current art crush.) All the best with your upcoming studies. Oh and wow for the printmaking festival... looks like I need to plan a trip to Stirling Uni for next year's festival. I've always wanted to visit Scotland.

Good luck with your course Kirsten ....you will do so well🎉 look forward to hearing all about it 😊

Congratulations!!!! I am so happy for you… enjoy your new journey 💕

Oh my, you´re back! 🥳 Did I get it right, dear Kirsten: You managed to enroll in art studies? I am afraid, I got a bit out of training to understand your language. 😂 But: As I can see, you have been very successful making some very interesting art pieces in your scetchbooks. Will you be on youtube again more regularly or will you be too busy with your art classes? I´ve already missed you, my dear 🥰. Xo Britta

Cool. Do you ever tear out "failed" pages?

Thank you so much! Excellent and interesting… best video I’ve watched on gelli plates so far! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 plus I could listen to your accent all day…

Your work is so beautiful! I rarely comment on videos but was so inspired and impressed by your sketchbooks 🙌🏼

Wow I am so inspired by the style of your work! There's a real experimentation and your works are so beautiful and unique. Thanks for sharing!!

Good demonstration and good idea. Thank you for inspiring me.

Stunning. Thanks!

As a beginner, thanks for saying how long you wait before each pull - no one else really does that

Brilliant videos to watch, glad I've found you. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge, so generous. Learned lots, can't wait to watch more.

The gel plate is like sliced bread in the print art world! Thanks for sharing, this is awesome!

Hi! Top tip for your ring bound portfolios. I studied textiles and pages would be painted and samples added in Remove the spiral from the book, it’s easy with some needle nose pliers. Buy an A2/3 portfolio case to keep your loose pages in. When you’ve completed your project theme. You can either feed pages back onto the wire spiral or you can use fabric, twine, wool etc to “sew” the pages back together. left over pages can make another portfolio too! Removing all the pages means you can work all the way to the edge and the ring binder holes don’t rip from constant turning, they can also be strengthened with extra paper, layer of pva or modge podge. I used tissue paper I’d stamped on to add extra decoration to the page. Each A3 page would be split into nine sections to show samples. Use a rectangle frame to select the best part of your sample pieces. Add notes to talk about your inspiration source and how you’re developing your ideas while combining the sources e.g Charles RM and Africa. Work towards a final piece. In your case a piece of art. For each portfolio I worked on, I was given a single word such as reflection. You could interpret this anyway you liked. It’s tricky to start, I’d draw a mind map with a word in the centre. We would draw ideas from inspiration such as the sixties, (period) Charles rennie MacKintosh (artist) and African tribes (culture). These were my personal sources for one project. You could also use nature, flowers but look at them with different perspective, macro details, just the marks on petals etc. If you can combine all sources of inspiration together in a book you’ve got endless designs to try in all kinds of media. Collage, print, felt making, batik, screen printing, fabric distortion on voiles and draw on faux velvet with heated nib. The BEST thing is you can work on several pages at a time, you don’t need to wait for them to dry. I hope this helps. I’d also recommend photographing , scanning, or colour photocopy the pages. I had a six month portfolio go missing from my tutors office. I wanted to leave from sheer anger, it was a very big test! I’m glad I stayed. I’ve made a career from it! Good luck with your college interview, you’ll smash it. Just take one large book or 2 smaller ones with your best work and notes. P.s, you can tie labels to the ring binder or sewn binder with extra samples and notes about the pages of developing your idea.

I absolutely adore this! It reminds me of the first time I had art class and we used coloured crayons to colour a sheet of paper then covered it with black paint. When it was dry we used lolly sticks to scratch off the paint to create a picture. The effect with the gel plate looks like a Lino print…. How weird, as I typed about Lino, you said it! It would be nice to duplicate the design on Lino. It looks beautiful. Your art style is very similar to mine. 😊

Wow - you are an art student now (a dime for the rime 😂). Congratulations, Kirsten! 🤗👍 In my opinion you already know alot, but maybe the school routine helps you to develop your own style further. I hope you don't loose that playful spirit. Wishing you a good start - Mara PS: This is for your parents: ❤ (stay strong!).

That was an amazing , clear and creative demonstration of so many things that we are all set to try a lot of methods of using gel plates straight away . Thank you for such an interesting and comprehensive introduction .We are a couple of older artists in Edinburgh ready for another of your videos. 💚

Cool! I knew there had to be a better way to get the paint back off. I found water worked quite well too, which surprised me as the acrylic paint was dry, but the lines i made were a bit less clean than what you got with baby oil. Now i have to go find some and try again 😅

Goodluck Kirsten, they’ld be lucky to get you! 🍀💖🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

love your unique way of using gelli plate. also your accept is lovely. Have you considered having music playing in background? There is quite a lot of dead time where we are just looking at plate and nothing is happening and you are not talking. Music would add a lot of interest.

Thank you for the inspiring tour of your journals Kirstin. Good luck with your interview - wishing you the best 💙

This is so inspiring. Did you say you have applied to art school? If so, I would eat my hat if didn’t secure a place. My very best wishes to you. Great work.

These are really beautiful - the use of the mirrored transfers and how you have reworked them is lovely.

This is inspiring me to play in my art journals. Great art journals! ❤❤❤

The Great Hairy Willow Herb! I rewatched that video yesterday because I've recently gotten a set of alcohol inks. Thanks for this flip through, it's cool seeing the scope of your works and the one at 20:09 (the right-side page) caught my eye. I reckon it's a bit tough waiting for the art school decision and I'm hoping they see the same spark of curious creativity that we see. My fingers and toes are crossed!

I keep you in my thoughts and prayers that the right opportunity will present itself to you to pursue your art experience. You are gifted and talented. You will excel and I hope you receive an interview! Nice to see you and your beautiful and hard work.

I am constantly amazed by the breadth of your design work. I enjoyed and learned from every page of these sketchbooks. Two pages in your yellow book, “the tidy one”, that speak to me personally are the black abstract on brown paper (gel print, one pull) and the drawing of a “tractor or something” done at The National Museum of Rural Life. Thank you for this inspiring and very valuable tour through your art.

super good lesson. How long do you leave the impressioned plate to dry before applying the white. Thanks

Agree with Eddie and all. Love to you, your family, and everyone who has happy memories of the neighborhood.

I immediately recognized the Art Whisper88’s style so I’m glad you mentioned him (gave him credit)!

Thank you for sharing! ❤

I am very new to gel plate use and loved this video. I think your techniques are a fantastic way to show newcomers what can be achieved. I really liked the prints from the hot glue gun.😀

So sorry to see this Kirsten, i can not even imagine how that must be. I can only wish you and your family all the best and goodluck!💖🍀💖🍀💖🍀💖🍀

This is terrific. I see all kinds of potential for drawing. Thank you for showing this. I’m certainly going to try it on a smaller plate to begin with. I know some people add extenders and retarders to their acrylic paint. Sometimes my paint dries so fast that once I get the paper on it, it doesn’t pick up well. It’s very hot Here and I have had to turn off the ceiling fan to slow down my paint drying.

Brilliant video! Thank you ❤

Wow, I really enjoyed this.

Oh my, dear Kirsten! What a disastrous sight! You are so right to inform the public. I do hope you reach someone with this video, who can help!😘 Xo Britta

I’m jealous! So happy for you.

I really enjoyed this video! Love you Girlfriend. 💜💚💜

What an incredibly frustrating injustice. Eddie said it already but I'll repeat it - your family and neighbours deserve better.

If you were in the US someone would sue the guy to get him in line. I'm so sorry that you have lost your home and cannot move forward.

Hi Kirstin, I'm so sorry this is happening. Your family & neighbors deserve better. Shame on the govt for not getting involved. You & your family are in my thoughts.

What a jerk. Surely there are regulations that prohibit you leaving a mess like this?? It's not just an eyesore it's dangerous!

25:18 looks like a face emerging out of a wave.

What a fantastic idea! 😃 Thank you for sharing 😀

The sticky aluminium foil you will find in the stoves and chimney departments in DIY stores. My chimney sweep left half a roll behind last year, I need to use it! Thanks for the vlog.