{"id":8,"date":"2018-03-25T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:47:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-901\" src=\"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A native of western New York, roots in Pittsburgh, living in the suburbs of Washington DC. and able to drive straight through to Asbury Park, New Jersey nearly blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>I was raised on sawdust, fresh pasta and homemade sauce. Paper, ink and turpentine. Vermiculite, Sakrete and a steady hand. Creativity was always encouraged, hell, it was all around you, you couldn&#8217;t miss it.<\/p>\n<p>I drew constantly. I was convinced I could be the next Herblock. Thomas Nast had nothing on me as I packed up my pen and india ink and headed off to art school and a career as a political cartoonist. Oh, the dreams of the young.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered there was a lot more to the world of &#8220;Commercial Art&#8221; than lamp black watercolor, sable brushes and amberlith. The roll of Kodachrome became a 16gig flash card. Dodging and burning in the darkroom became Photoshop and Lightroom (I do miss the smell of fixer). Paste up and mechanical boards turned into &#8220;collect for output.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, what hasn&#8217;t changed is a good aesthetic. Good composition is still good composition. excellent design is still something that touches you, and makes you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native of western New York, roots in Pittsburgh, living in the suburbs of Washington DC. and able to drive straight through to Asbury Park, New Jersey nearly blindfolded. I was raised on sawdust, fresh pasta and homemade sauce. Paper, ink and turpentine. Vermiculite, Sakrete and a steady hand. Creativity was always encouraged, hell, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aceartanddesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}