On a sad note I want to mention that my friend and COO of my company Norvin has been affected by the recent typhoon in the Philippines. While his family all survived his step father was injured and Norvins parents also lost everything. The home where Norvin grew up was washed away. Norvins place is currently still knee high in water. Given my past experience (last year) with flooding most likely he will also have a total loss as well. Many of you know Norvin as he is the tech and email support as well as the one who puts up many of the websites.

My family and I are putting together a fund for Norvin and his family. Everyone has a cause to support and every time we turn around someone is asking for money.

So what we are doing is donating the sales of all of our products and services for the next couple weeks to Norvin. All of our print sales at timoneillstudio.com, and anything from digitalpaintmagazine.com as well as products from our cooking, gardening and homesteading sites which most of you here may not be familiar with. As our dollar is strong yet in his area even the few thousand dollars we might be able to raise will make a difference. My seven-year old daughter Elise is giving some of her Christmas money to them, she loves Norvin and has chatted with him many times via skype.

Here is an excerpt from Norvin, note that while he is dealing with a major disaster that has affected him personally he is conscientious of his commitment to us.

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Hi Sir Tim,

If you don’t want any products or prints and still want to give you can send a paypal to me with Norvin in the subject line. All of the money donated (less incoming paypal fees will be sent) We will pay the fees to send it over via xoom. Even a $5 dollar donation will make a difference. If you choose not to send money please send your prayers or a short  note of encouragement via comments here. Bless you for your help.

You can send a paypal to Tim [at] Digital Paint Magazine with “Norvin” in the subject line and we will get the fund to him. We will send a screen shot of the transaction to the emails of all who donate. We are acting as an intermediary for him. We have had employees from the Philippines for the last four years and it is really expensive to use Paypal direct to them. We pay them using a company called Xoom which is much less expensive, it also has a 50$ minimum. By collecting here and sending it once we can make sure more money gets directly to them.

Be Blessed this Christmas! The magazine is only a few days from release.

Following is one vid from you tube talking about the area.

News Article Link

 

Hi everyone!

We will be having a 24 hour 50% OFF sale to celebrate Easter and the birthdays we have this month.

Any of the items listed below can be purchased for half-off from midnight April 24 to midnight April 25. If you would like more information on a particular product you can visit the sales pages from that product but dont purchase from those pages.

We are not going to set up a special button for the sale. We are slummin it and going to make it very simple as well. Send a paypal for the products you want to purchase to: topimages at msn.com.

If you dont know how to do that just send me an email and I will send a Paypal invoice out to you. It is very important to put, “EASTER SALE” in the subject line so I dont miss it.

All of the products will be fulfilled Mon and Tues after the holiday. I can only honor the 50% off for orders placed during those 24 hours. If you paid full price for one of these products in the last 30 days email me.
Artistic Impressions DVD series $97
http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/194/digital-painting-workshop-dvd-beta/

Digital Painting Techniques DVD Series $247
Digital version sales page: http://www.digitalpaintingtechniques.com/

Digital Art Summit Webinar Tim ONeill $47
Download Part ONE-Painting Skin
Download PartTWO-Painting the hair and clothing
Download Part THREE-Painting the Background here
Download Part Four-Dodge Burn here
Also includes the chat transciprt from the webinar and QA session

2010 Digital Art Summit PDF’s 10 $97
Sales  page http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1116/digital-art-summit-pdfs/

Included in these PDF’s are the following artists:
Tim ONeill
Kirk Nelson
Karen Sperling
Heather Michelle
Darrell Chitty
Marco Bucci
Woody Walters
Michael Campbell
There are two video download bonuses just in case you did not get them. They are Daniel Tardent and Skip Allen.
The price is $97. There is 497 pages of information between all of the Artists. Note that this is PDF downloads NOT a physical product shipped to your door.

 
2009/2010 Digital Paint Magazine Back Issue
14 Issue download, 11 Issues from 2010 and the three issues published in 2009. $57

Mamarazzi Guide to Creativity, Book download version (Amazon at 14.97)

Word Press Video Tutorials $97
47 video tutorials that will tell you how to set up and use word press
http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/word-press-video-tutorials/

Here is an incredible slide show that profiles a few images of a one and a half year film and photo project documenting the human plant. The TV program premiered on March 3rd, 2011. If you love beautiful images or travel you will love this short slide show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12618167

Digital Painting on your Ipad, Iphone, Ipod or other hand held device is not new.

 Still cool perhaps but not new. What is new though is a very cool tool that Dwayne Vance of  www.futureelements.com told me about. Dwayne did the webinar yesterday with Digital Art Summit. As we were chatting before the webinar about various business stuff he told me about a new the stylus under development by Don Lehman.

Don is a product designer with a BFA in industrial design from RIT. Fun Stuff. If you ever look at his Curriculum vitae you will see some cool industrial design projects that you might be familiar with.

Specific to the More/Real Stylus cap you can find out about it at one of my new favorite webistes called kickstarter. This site feeds the business geek solo-entrepreneur in me. Here is the exact URL.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/donlehman/more-real-stylus-cap

If you find value in the product support the start-up and get one of the first models out.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

12 Days of Christmas: Day TWELVE

On the 12th day of Christmas my good friends gave to me:

12 Christmas Cards

Our good friends and Sponsors at Allied Labs are offering 12 press printed cards for anyone. This is FREE. You can claim your cards by following the instructions in the video below. IMPORTANT: This video was made for a class at Digital Art Academy. It says 48 cards, this free offer is for 12 CARDS, ANY SIZE, ANY PAPER. Shipping in the United States is also free. If you are one of our many International friends the offer is still good you will just need to pay for shipping.

So go to http://www.alliedphoto.com/. Our code for this offer is TO10. This is the code you will put in the promo code area. Please watch the video and walk through things, I can’t offer support for this as there are to many people and it is a free item.

Click here for the VIDEO DOWNLOAD

Thank-you Everyone!

11 Royalty Free Songs

These songs are from part of a product that I have in a different niche. This product has not been offered with my Photography or Digital Art Site. These creations I have paid the royalties for you. That means you are welcome to use them on your website, videos productions, slide shows or whatever.

Song One

Song Two

Song Three

Song Four

Song Five

Song Six

Song Seven

Song Eight

Song Nine

Song Ten

Song Eleven

10 Painter Brushes

Don Seegmiller 10 Brush downloads

9 Digital Art Blogs

http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/

http://pixlart.blogspot.com/  John Derry’s Blog

http://www.jitterbrush.com/  David Gells Blog

http://www.deniselaurent.co.uk/blog/ Denise Laurent-creator of the famously popular Den’s Oil Funky Chunky Brush

http://scottdeardorff.blogspot.com/

http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/

http://www.davidcolepictures.co.uk/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/

http://www.marilynsholin.com/blog/

8 Digital Art book titles

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis

The Art of Digital Photo Painting: Using Popular Software to Create Masterpieces (A Lark Photography Book) by Marilyn Sholin

Advanced Painter Techniques by Don Seegmiller

Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into Fine Art with Photoshop and Painter by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis and Donal Jolley

Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook by Jeremy Sutton

Painter 11 for Photographers: Creating painterly images step by step by Martin Addison

Digital Painting in Photoshop by Susan Ruddick Bloom

Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities by Daryl Wise and Linda Hellfritsch

Seven Digital Painting Forums

http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/forum/

http://www.paintertalk.net/forum/index.php?act=idx

http://forum.deviantart.com/galleries/digital/

http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/

http://www.gfxartist.com/

http://forums.cgsociety.org/

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/

6 Santa artists

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49459728@N00/379348283

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Santa-alone-at-home/259873

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504326/Amazing-3D-street-art-brings-Father-Christmass-grotto-life.html

http://whereverdesign.wordpress.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arteurbana/2322178064/

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=santa&order=9&offset=288#/d1rrg6x

5 General Art Blogs

http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/

http://www.skineart.com/

http://www.linesandcolors.com/

http://www.artbizblog.com/

http://emptyeasel.com/

Four pattern textures

Texture one…….texture two…….texture three…….texture four

Three Trader Cards

Template one……………Template two…………….template three

Two Ebooks Book One-As A ManThinketh …………Book Two-Acres of Diamonds

………and a complimentary webinar view

I hope you enjoy these! Thank-you for those that have left comments. If you have not left a Face Book Comment and want to help us out go to the page you signed up and leave a like and a comment. It will post the comment on FaceBook from there. Go to: http://www.timoneillblog.com/digitalpaintmagazine/12Days2010/begin.html

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Day One: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/977/12-days-of-christmas-day-one/

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Day Two: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1008/12-days-of-christmas-day-two/

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Day Three: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1024/12-days-of-christmas-day-three/

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Day Four: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1041/12-days-of-christmas-day-four

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Day Five: corrupt and missing

Day Six: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1057/12-days-of-christmas-day-6

Day Seven: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1063/12-days-of-christmas-day-seven/

Day Eight:  http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1067/12-days-of-christmas-day-eight/

Day Nine: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1090/12-days-of-christmas-day-nine/

Day Ten:  http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1090/12-days-of-christmas-day-ten/

Day Eleven: http://www.digitalpaintmagazine.com/blog/1094/12-days-of-chr…mas-day-eleven/