LASTING IMPRESSIONS: Tim O'Neill

Lasting Impressions with Sian Lindemann

Technology…and the Arts
Tim O'Neill
http://www.timoneillstudios.com

A Brave New World…

Tim O’Neill is an Artist to Watch…

“Tim began his career as a photographer working in a darkroom lab and processing film for a local company in his high school years. He joined the US Navy in 1979 and was trained as a photojournalist at the US Navy Schools of Photography in Pensacola, FL. Tim finished his Navy career attached the Combat Camera Group at the Atlantic Fleet Audiovisual Command in Norfolk, VA. Since 1979, there have been many different directions of study in fine art, photography and business that Tim has pursued. As a fine art printer and photographer many years were spent printing silver gelatin, various non-silver processes and platinum. Platinum printing remains a favorite of his today. The digital revolution found its way to Tim’s studio in 2002 and now commissioned mixed media portraits are becoming more and more prevalent with discriminating clients.

Currently Tim is a self employed entrepreneur creating art and growing his brand as well as teaching business and marketing skills to artists in online and offline workshops and seminars. His painting has taken on a new direction and he is working on two book deals and a calendar. A calendar featuring 12 paintings of children angels is being published, a book for artist on using social media marketing, and an instructional book entitled, “Digital Painting for the Artistically Challenged” are in process. On the entrepreneurial side Tim has owned various franchises in several industries including the health and fitness, insurance and securities and automotive industries. Current passionate pursuit is building his online businesses for residual income, painting commissioned portraits and other fine art pieces and finishing his masters degree”. Tim O’Neill

Tim has four children ages 24, 21, 10 and 5 as of 2009. The O’Neill’s live in North Platte Nebraska.



Tim O’Neill ~

“Grandpa’s Hat”

Tim O’Neill came to my attention because of this painting.

Titled “Grandpa’s Hat,” is from the collection of portraiture by American artist, painter, photographer, Tim O’Neill, whom I discovered in my newly adopted passion for Social Media.

Tim is a “friend” from Facebook.

Face Book, a viable tool, a Social Networking site, and like Twitter, YouTube, Squidoo and other Social Media platforms, is not only valid for the building of community and friends from around the world, but is an extremely valuable mix of “outlets” on which one can implement marketing strategies, via the cross syndication of information, that no longer require “retail” locations, ie galleries, as primary distribution for the sale of the works.

The technological applications do not end with Social Media Marketing.

The other most intriguing “piece” about Tim O’Neill, as an artist, is that he has crossed all the boundaries between technological “paint” tools and the known hand rendered techniques of traditional painting. He has adopted, mastered and has ‘included’ the technological tools available to all of us, in the creation of the “master” works themselves.

Step aside, George Lucas, and ILM masteries. Tim O’Neill is the “new age” of digital technologies in the arts.

It is no wonder that he has been “challenged” by elitists in the arts industries.

The man is a “walking” innovation.

There is MORE…

Currently engaged in the final design and launch of a “digital” painting magazine, Tim is creating the very publication in which he will be sharing these remarkable tools and methods with the public.

I am reminded of a request I made to a mentor of mine, posed nearly one year ago. I suggested that we create a “revolution” online, in the arts. Spoken like a true visionary, I asked for the revolution, studied the methods required to implement it, specific to sales, and never in my wildest dreams imagined there would also be a “revolution” in the methods and techniques used to create the original works, as well.

I am humbled, and I feel much like I imagine the early explorers of the “new world” to have felt. The world is NOT “flat.”

Tim O’Neill ~ make sure to watch, listen and follow him, as he is on the verge of opening the treasure trove of what is to be the new direction in the world of fine arts.

http://www.timoneillstudios.com


Sian Lindemann is the Executive Director of Sian Design, a company committed to the discovery and development of emerging artists.
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