Renee's Art Progression

  Who I Chose + Thesis      Dolly Parton pushed country music forward for women in country with her lyrics and feminine persona. In her early years, she’s utilized her outfits and attractions outside of music to contribute to this forward thinking in this field. She has done this by discussing “controversial” feminine topics in her music despite the [time] not being in favor of them.  I chose to present Dolly Parton since her name has stood the test of time. Dolly Parton is recognized and admired by many - both fans and respected big names. Her music and her presence continues to follow her after 65 years in the music industry. Her songs such as “I Will Always Love You”, “9 to 5”, and “Jolene” stay being her biggest hits and have recently been transformed for modern day audiences to enjoy her music. About Dolly Parton      Dolly Parton has been exposed to the music world since she was a child, but she got her foot in the door around 13 years old when she and her uncle Bill Owens perf

My update for this project is that it's started! This project is very simple, so I'm hoping to do as much of it as possible. I ended up choosing to do 2D and in real life characters/objects interact. My plan for this is to take as many pictures as possible and draw over some things in the pictures to make it seem like 2D and 3D exist in the same world. I have 4 pictures worked on so far: 2 simple ones and 2 more explored ones (for lack of better words). For the 2 simple ones, I added red jackets over people and outlines the wrinkles in the jackets. These pictures were mainly to test if I had the skills to execute this project and see what I would feel better working with. The other 2 pictures are ones that have some legitimate progress and some extra additions outside of just adding things over people. The pictures aren't finished yet, but at least they're started. I will admit that I'm not at a point where I would hope to be in my progress but at least these pictur

 Eric Garcia's art style was very focused in lining and mimicked a newspaper-like comic style. Some of the 2D works he showed didn't have color, which led to his details being done with line art. Some of these drawings were shaded by hatching, some with filled in black, and/or a combination of both. He had few exceptions to this, such as the two drawings he showed that were done in a purple-ish ink that he made, but these drawings were still done in the same art style. Another exception he did was a Jesus drawing that didn't have the same art style nor his usual black-and-white pallet; the lining was thinner; the figure didn't have the usual shape he uses for his characters; and it had color. His Installations, on the other hand, still had his lining style (thick borders) but had color to them. These colors, though, were simple and just filled in the drawings.  His inspirations being comic books and military experience was an interesting combination. For the comic book

 One of the projects I would like to do is some sort of animation. I would like to tie this in with my Advanced Drawing class assignment since I plan on doing a somewhat animation for that. I would be starting these projects around the same time but ending the Advanced Drawing project earlier than this final project, so instead of dropping it, I can continue it in this class. I would draw out 3 seconds worth of animation on the sketchpads provided for us from that class, and then continue the animation on a software. I don't think I will actually get through a whole song, but I anticipate at least getting a part of a song animated. Some songs on my mind are the bridge + ending for Taylor Swift's Now That We Don't Talk , the chorus for Marina and the Diamond's Froot , or some part of an Olivia Rodrigo song (not sure which song of hers).  Another project I had in mind was combining 2D and 3D things in a photo. I would take multiple pictures of random activities or exchang

      Over the start of the installation preparations to executing the project, half of that time was spent deciding what theme I wanted to do. I had plans for how to execute both Installations and guaranteed participation from people I've asked to be involved with. What came down to the final decision, though, was asking my participants what they wanted to do since I knew I wouldn't be able to decide on my own. What they chose was Overcooked! - a videogame where players come together to cook food and serve the food in a timely manner. In sticking with this theme, I wanted this to be a surface-level and easy-going installation as a reflection of the game being simple.      My plans for this installation was to get people together and have them play the game and recreate some actions that one would do when playing this game. So first, I laid out my expectations on their part when participating in this installation. Like I said, I wanted this to be something anyone can do, so all

   Image: Superflex The artist I've chosen to research is Superflex. I chose to explore their work "Flooded McDonald's" because I wanted to research a superficial/unserious exhibition. At first glance, I was sure that a piece about McDonald's would be a simple "curiosity got the best of me" reasoning for this piece - maybe even a comedic aspect. However, upon further research, I found that this piece was NOT superficial but rather a take on consumerism and climate change through the use of an iconic character. Despite this piece alluding to a bigger concept, it was still fun to research as this piece was an acknowledgement piece rather than an interpretive piece. Superflex is a group of 3 people - Rasmus Rosengren Nielson, Jakob Fenger, and Bjornstrjerne Christiansen - who found that they really work well together and ended up creating their company together. They have been with each other since 1993 and are still around til this day -  a whopping 31 yea