{"id":81,"date":"2016-04-22T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2016-04-22T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:38:59","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Steve<\/a>From cowboys cheating at poker to Star Wars spaceships and the members of\u00a0the rock group KISS, I\u2019ve been drawing stuff for as long as I can remember. Art and drawing classes in school were always my favorite. If I wasn\u2019t drawing for a grade, I was doodling on and in my notebooks.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until the early 1990\u2019s that I really saw my potential as an artist and the potential to sell my work. I thought to myself, \u201cThese drawings make great gifts, but would people really want to buy them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Wayne Gretzky not only helped establish ice hockey in California as well as in the sunbelt for that matter, he and my love for hockey also helped inspire me to draw. In 1993, with a pencil in hand and the Los Angeles Kings on T.V., my first four drawings were of \u201cThe Great One\u201d and each rendering was better than the one before.<\/p>\n

My brother helped advertise for me and found a friend who bought several pieces for himself and for gifts. My subject matter expanded from hockey to football, baseball, and basketball. I had all four of the major sports covered. Presently, my portfolio runs the gamete. I\u2019ve got rock stars, movie stars, more athletes, family members, and automobiles.<\/p>\n

After a brief hiatus when my daughter Lexi was born, I was back at it. I was happy to find that I didn\u2019t lose anything during my time off. Sporadically, I\u2019d work on a drawing or two until very recently. Now, it\u2019s full speed ahead. I\u2019m splitting time between drawing and marketing, along with my day job and family duties, but I\u2019m producing some nice work and have some promising pieces in the hopper.<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019ve learned how to mat and frame my work, I can provide all the services customers expect when buying original artwork and save them money at the same time. It also gives me control over the presentation of my drawings. And, on top of all of this, I\u2019ve also taken a liking to photography and graphic design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From cowboys cheating at poker to Star Wars spaceships and the members of\u00a0the rock group KISS, I\u2019ve been drawing stuff for as long as I can remember. Art and drawing classes in school were always my favorite. If I wasn\u2019t drawing for a grade, I was doodling on and in my notebooks. It wasn\u2019t until …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimdellalonga.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}