Tosca

Commercial Print

9.5� x 18�

Untitled - red

Print

6� x 6�

Artist Statement

1. Tosca Poster: In 1997 the San Francisco Opera held a design contest for posters to promote their production of �Tosca.�  As with most operas, �Tosca� is full of death, blood, love, passion, and most other base human emotions. To make my poster distinct, I found images of Puccini�s hand-written score, and used that as a background. The immediate visual impact of the knife pointing down towards the blood-red title replaced the need for textual communication.
a. Original dimensions: 9.5� x 18�
b. Year: 1997

2. Untitled-red: Created from Mokuhanga (Japanese-style woodblock printmaking), I created this design using 4 blocks, each block a different color. Mokuhanga uses transparent, water-based inks, hence overlapping block colors can create more colors on paper than are spread on the blocks, as in this case.
a. Original dimensions: 6� x 6� (image area)
b. Year: 2003


Renee is a graphic designer and artist based in San Francisco. After focusing purely on a graphic design career for a too-long 7 years, and in response to harsh world events, she decided to leave the corporate world in early 2003. She now focuses on painting, and on doing graphic work for small, non-corporate clients. She is much happier for it.

E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~randersonca/

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