Jim Weaver has a passion to help people succeed in life and believes in their goodness. As well as being a great painter, Jim's helped many local entrepreneur's get online by designing interface driven web development platforms providing secure online e-commerce applications for their businesses. (See video and links for more info below!)
Mr. Weaver has trained other painters to go on to become contractors in business for themselves following in the traditional kind footsteps of his now retired Father, business owner and ARAMCO top industrial coatings analyst Barney Weaver Jr. formally of ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia and 35 year owner of Weaver Protective Coatings in Tulsa, Oklahoma!
Politician and former Clatsop County Commissioner Gretchen Buckmaster Olsen is one Jim's Protégés', a great painter and interior designer in Washington state!
Mr. Weaver has written articles in the Daily Astorian on the subject of painting in the section called "Consult the Professional" Jim's most recent work (also in his Fathers footsteps) is including new patent searches of his invented ideas of painter's tools. Also professional journeyman level painter courses on the topic of safety prep measures and painting applications for professional contractors soon to be securely sold online in video format on his website. Contact Jim for investor relations of his tooling ideas and training courses!
Painting Victorians has been Jim's passion for the last 19 years in Astoria, Oregon. Astoria is the oldest American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains named after the famous fur trapper and entrepreneur John Jacob Astor. Many call Astoria little San Francisco after it's sprawling hills and beautiful Victorian age architecture.
Jim has been involved giving free painting workshops for the "Lower Columbia Preservation Society" and painted the beloved Flavel Carriage house museum as seen on the home page of his site. Mr. Weaver's clients include many members of historical organizations in the Northwest including societal member's personal Victorian homes in Clatsop County and awarded State of Washington's grant work for painting the 1892 Oysterville Baptist Church for the Oysterville Historical Society in Southwest Washington. Jim has painted all the beachfront homes for Ron Tonkin, Brad and Ed Tonkin. The Tonkins' are the owners of the largest new and used car dealership in the state of Oregon. Recently In 2003 Jim painted the personal coast home for Steven McGeady the former vice president of INTEL CORPORATION and Craig Tillitsons' Ocean front Mansion doing high end custom lacquer. Mr. Tillitson invented the product "New Skin"
Jim's own writing expertise (and others) on his website provides much needed information to the community teaching proper preparation techniques and safety measures used to make coating systems work in the rain driven climates of the Oregon and Washington coastline.
In Mr. Weaver's earlier 47 years to date Jim developed a passion for photography and worked processing and developing line negatives and half tone negatives for offset printing press work along with hours spent days on end in darkrooms developing color slides, prints and processing silver emulsion ferrotype plates for Christian newsletters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
