Grey to White

Yellow to Green

Formspring

I was asked this on my formspring (www.formspring.me/charliefer)

"What's the story behind your new artwork?"

It started out as a thing I had with test tubes, kind of always liked them for their form really I just like how repetitive and standardised they are.I was filling them with food colouring and water and finding out what gradients of colour I could make by using a methodical system of adding one drop of food colouring per x amount of water.It was then suggested to me that I could then do something with the liquid rather than just displaying it in a test tube because it needed to move beyond my previous Dulux project idea of standard colours and the process of making the colour.So then I started dropping/dribbling the food colouring and water down different surfaces until I moved onto how to make it more permanent.Through the miracle of PVA glue and water colour paint I had lots of fun painting the inside of my bedroom window for a couple of days and then moved onto a piece of perspex.So now I'm starting to make my big final pieces which are still about gradients of colour but the actual colour mixing is more of a random process (I add however much colour I want at a time) but still uses a methodical process whereby I use a set amount of PVA and each line of the mixture uses the same amount of liquid (10ml) which is applied using a syringe.Plus it's a little bit about the pursuit of the perfect line because they don't always run straight down they merge and bend and curve which to me is annoying but I love it when one runs almost perfectly straight it gives me massive satisfaction :)"

Puddles

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I've been collecting all the excess paint that has dripped off the end of my work on spare pieces of perspex (the same size as my pieces) and as I have 3 spare pieces and I am doing 9 works I am going to collect 3 sets of colour on each piece of spare perspex.I'm not sure how important they are. Most people seem to like them but I don't know if I will display them for my assessment or final show but I do think they are pretty.

This is green to blue with blue to purple.

I have size 5 feet if that gives any sense of scale.

Syringes

I have broken 23 syringes so far doing this but I ordered 100 so I think I'll have enough to keep going

My to do list

Black to Grey - Done

Grey to White

White to Pink

Prink to Red

Red to Orange - Done

Orange to Yellow

Yellow to Green

Green to Blue - Done

Blue to Purple - Done

Four down five to go

Blue to Purple

This is what happens when you go to uni on a Saturday.Dedication because I've got a stinking cold and all I did was sneeze!

Green to Blue

Red to Orange (Not quite finished)

Black to Grey (First Final Piece)

Colour Mixing

I bought 12 pieces of 1mx1m clear 3mm thick perspex.

These are my first testers of mixing from red to orange mixed with PVA glue and making puddles!

Red Test

Testing the mixture of PVA glue and water colour paint on clear perspex and the ratio of paint to glue to create different intensity of colours.

Angel of The North

Possibly the most beautiful piece of public artwork I have ever had the pleasure of visiting.

Antony Gormley's 'Angel of The North' March 2010

Also attempted to visit 'Another Place' at Crosby Beach but the tide was in :( and it was very rough and windy

Everything I have done since the 22nd of March

Dribbled some paint down my bedroom window