Tim O'Brien (illustrator)
| Tim O'Brien | |
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| Born |
November 16, 1964 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Paier College of Art |
| Known for | illustration, fine artist |
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| Website | obrienillustration |
Tim O'Brien (born November 16, 1964) is an American artist who works in a realistic style.
His illustrations have appeared on the covers and interior pages of magazines such as Time, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, and many others. His illustrations are also used by the US Postal Service for postage stamps.
O'Brien's paternal grandparents came from Ireland, and his maternal grandparents from Norwich, Connecticut, arriving in the United States from Quebec. His grandfather became a caretaker at Yale University.
The artist was the second of three boys in his family. At age nine, his father passed away and after his fathers death, O'Brien got into trouble for vandalism. A youth officer suggested boxing and O'Brien took the advise and began training as a boxer in high school, going on to box as a middleweight amateur in the Police Athletic League. Although he drew and painted all during his youth, O'Brien thought boxing would be his career.
At the age of 18, O'Brien gave up his ambitions of becoming a professional boxer and in the same year received a Pell Grant which he used to enroll in the Paier College of Art, New Haven, CT.
He went on to graduate in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His instructors at Paier included Leonard Everett Fisher, Ken Davies and Robert Zappalorti. While attending Paier, the young artist would paint Trompe l'oeil images for fun, which his instructors Ken Davies and Robert Zappalorti were also known to do, in which the viewer of the paintings are deceived into thinking they were seeing an actual object. In one such case, students attempted to use electrical outlets that O'Brien had painted on the wall.
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