The Flying House by Thomas Flintham
The Flying House
by Thomas Flintham
all pictures were drawn in 2002 and are copyright of Thomas Flintham
The following images are taken from a project called ‘The Flying house’ that I did for one of my modules in the first semester of my second year studying Fine Art at De Montfort University Leicester in 2001. Here are some of the key bits of thinking that went into it:
- I was interested in the idea of a project in which I had to produce a finished image each and every day. This was inspired mainly by the sketchbook diaries of James Kochalka that i had discovered over the summer before I started my second year (James Kochal ka’s cstill continuing diaries can be read at www.americanelf.com). Each of these drawings was started and finished in one day. I tried hard to do one everyday.
- I was interested into bringing a narrative into my work, in this case an unspecified, undefined one that would be created through the process, with no specific end that it was leading to.
- Up to this point the main focus of my university work had been based on drawing from life, I was keen to start drawing from my doodles and straight from my head.
I think there were other issues that I wanted to deal with within this project, but if there were I can’t remember what they were. Overal it wasn’t the most sucessful project I did while doing my BA studies, but it was a significant step towards my more sucessful projects and the work Im doing now. Here are the daily drawing what I did.
As well as the daily drawings I did a little experimental animation. It was my first atempt at animation and I didn’t get very far. The following images are the frames of that animation that show how the house takes off.
As a side note this project also resulted in my first ever website after i uploaded all the pictures the summer after I’d drawn them. This site is no longer online.
the end
a merry-go-book 2009 copyright Thomas Flintham 2002