What is a Fine Art print and Letterpress?
Fine Art Prints are available in two categories:
Giclée (zhee-KLAY), Is a Fine Art inkjet digital print. Images are in small runs printed on Canvas or Archival paper using Professional grade printers. Each print is on high quality paper or canvas using Inks that are color fast for 200 years.
Letterpress is the oldest form of printing. In this method a surface with raised letters and art is inked and Pressed into the surface of the paper to reproduce an embossed inked image. Each sheet of paper is printed by hand one at a time.
Giclée (zhee-KLAY), Is a Fine Art inkjet digital print. Images are in small runs printed on Canvas or Archival paper using Professional grade printers. Each print is on high quality paper or canvas using Inks that are color fast for 200 years.
Letterpress is the oldest form of printing. In this method a surface with raised letters and art is inked and Pressed into the surface of the paper to reproduce an embossed inked image. Each sheet of paper is printed by hand one at a time.
What is Original Art?
These are select original art pieces.
Artist
About the Artist
Val Paul Taylor
If you sit down and talk with Val Paul Taylor I guarantee you will open a door to a conversation rich with wonderful stories.
I say wonderful carefully and deliberately. While Val’s spontaneous stories are a tapestry woven with threads of life, emotion, purpose, fantasy, aspiration, and nobility, wonder, humor and surprise—they also create a vivid picture and hang it for you to treasure in the gallery of your mind.
His Acrylic paintings, drawings, and letterpress prints are exactly the same; a visual expression of what Val is himself. Val credits much of his artistic intuition to being a “hybrid.” He’s been a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Creative Director, Illustrator, educator and now a full time Gallery Painter.
Born a Navy brat has been creating art his whole life. A two-year church mission spent living among native peoples on a reservation in South Dakota and small towns in North Dakota and Canada contributed another whole dimension to his work and interests. When you see Val’s Art you see how he has been greatly influenced by Native American imagery and Lore.
Val’s art skills were honed by his studies at Columbus College of Art and Design, and Brigham Young University. After a lengthy working career in the Pacific Northwest in a series of prestigious publishing, design and illustration roles, including Alaska Magazine and Val Paul Taylor Design, his own highly rated Seattle Design studio. He returned to The University of Hartford Art School in Hartford Connecticut for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. Val was a Visiting Professor at Southern Utah University teaching classes in Basic and Advanced Drawing, 2 Dimensional Design, Graphic Design, Typography and Branding. After years living on Camano Island he now resides in the Chehalis Washington farm and timber country.
Val has a personal pantheon of heroes as diverse as the Renaissance painters of Northern Europe, Mickey Mouse’s dad, and modern influences from political cartoonists like Jeff McNealy, to artist W. Heath Robinson, creator of Rube Goldberg-like mechanical contraptions, to animated film pioneer, Winsor McCay, Modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Bragg, James Christensen, and the Marx Brothers.
Which only means that when you approach Val’s work, in the immortal words of Monte Python, you should probably be prepared for “something completely different.”
Art Notes:
Val’s Paintings are done in Acrylic on paper mounted on hardboard. His collection of small Letterpress prints is gleaned from his extensive Sketchbooks. Val’s original Paintings are available at Settlers West Gallery in Tucson Arizona and Coeur d' Alene Galleries in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.
Education/Teaching:
• Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio
• BFA Illustration; Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
• MFA Illustration; Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford Connecticut
• Adjunct Professor/Visiting Lecturer of Art and Design, Southern Utah University, Cedar City Utah
If you sit down and talk with Val Paul Taylor I guarantee you will open a door to a conversation rich with wonderful stories.
I say wonderful carefully and deliberately. While Val’s spontaneous stories are a tapestry woven with threads of life, emotion, purpose, fantasy, aspiration, and nobility, wonder, humor and surprise—they also create a vivid picture and hang it for you to treasure in the gallery of your mind.
His Acrylic paintings, drawings, and letterpress prints are exactly the same; a visual expression of what Val is himself. Val credits much of his artistic intuition to being a “hybrid.” He’s been a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Creative Director, Illustrator, educator and now a full time Gallery Painter.
Born a Navy brat has been creating art his whole life. A two-year church mission spent living among native peoples on a reservation in South Dakota and small towns in North Dakota and Canada contributed another whole dimension to his work and interests. When you see Val’s Art you see how he has been greatly influenced by Native American imagery and Lore.
Val’s art skills were honed by his studies at Columbus College of Art and Design, and Brigham Young University. After a lengthy working career in the Pacific Northwest in a series of prestigious publishing, design and illustration roles, including Alaska Magazine and Val Paul Taylor Design, his own highly rated Seattle Design studio. He returned to The University of Hartford Art School in Hartford Connecticut for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Illustration. Val was a Visiting Professor at Southern Utah University teaching classes in Basic and Advanced Drawing, 2 Dimensional Design, Graphic Design, Typography and Branding. After years living on Camano Island he now resides in the Chehalis Washington farm and timber country.
Val has a personal pantheon of heroes as diverse as the Renaissance painters of Northern Europe, Mickey Mouse’s dad, and modern influences from political cartoonists like Jeff McNealy, to artist W. Heath Robinson, creator of Rube Goldberg-like mechanical contraptions, to animated film pioneer, Winsor McCay, Modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Bragg, James Christensen, and the Marx Brothers.
Which only means that when you approach Val’s work, in the immortal words of Monte Python, you should probably be prepared for “something completely different.”
Art Notes:
Val’s Paintings are done in Acrylic on paper mounted on hardboard. His collection of small Letterpress prints is gleaned from his extensive Sketchbooks. Val’s original Paintings are available at Settlers West Gallery in Tucson Arizona and Coeur d' Alene Galleries in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.
Education/Teaching:
• Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio
• BFA Illustration; Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
• MFA Illustration; Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford Connecticut
• Adjunct Professor/Visiting Lecturer of Art and Design, Southern Utah University, Cedar City Utah