Talent Toni L. Taylor

Channels:

Art, Body, and Unique

Genres:

Astro Art, Erotica, Fantastic Realism, Fantasy, Figurative, Native American, Portrait, Self Taught, Surrealism, Visionary Art

Roles:

Artist, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter

Specialties:

The mediums I specialize in are oil and pencil and enjoy painting uniquely created images from portraits to murals.

A recent transplant from New York to Orlando, FL, Toni L. Taylor is a fine artist whose work travels through the realms of fantasy and mysticism. She feels a special kinship with the mysteries of Ancient Egypt as well as the spirit of Native America. She says of her work, “When people view my creations, I want them to feel like they’re taking a bit of a mental vacation… tapping into the ethereal and otherworldly. My desire is to touch some part of their soul allowing them to dream their dreams and stimulate their own imaginations.” Having had no formal training, Toni considers herself ‘life taught’ and her gift a blessing from God. Toni has been an artist all of her life, beginning at the tender age of 4 with crayons, now with oil and pencil as her preferred mediums. Her professional career began in 1985 with a cover for Heavy Metal Magazine, of which she was an avid collector. Since then she’s worked with various clients such as The Miller Brewing Company, Black Enterprise Magazine, MBI-Easton Press, Inner Traditions Books, U.S. Games, PolyGram, GRP, RCA, Island Records and Elephant Door scenic design company to name a few as well as catering to collectors. While in NY, she also taught private art lessons to aspiring students.

Toni is self published with 18 images in print and 24 greeting cards with astrological, Angelic and Goddess imagery. She includes portraits and murals in her repertoire and has exhibited her work at galleries, conventions and festivals from Boston to New Orleans. You are invited to visit her website at www.TLTArt.com.

Bill Moyers asked of Joseph Campbell, a scholar, writer and the preeminent authority on mythology before his passing, “Who interprets the divinity in nature for us today? Who are our shamans? Who interprets unseen things for us?”
Campbell replied, “It is the function of the artist to do this. The artist is the one who communicates myth for today.”

Strathmore illustration board, oil paints (not brand loyal), sable and synthetic brushes, linseed oil and liquin, odorless thinner, good reference material which I prefer to shoot myself if the subject is human. If not, I reference art books and maintain a picture file.

I mount the board on foam core, prime with gesso, draw the image on then do a tight under-painting followed by another complete coat until the image is right. I then glaze the image with liquin to protect it once dry.

The mediums I specialize in are oil and pencil and enjoy painting uniquely created images from portraits to murals.

God/Goddess, the Spirit of my Mom, artists Dale TerBush, Jia Liu, Alan Lee & John Howe (anything Lord of The Rings: music, art, film), Frazetta, Boris & Julie, Bob Venosa, Michael Whelan, good music and film