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4RealArts offers web design services, specifically
targeted for artists, artisans, healing arts services, and small businesses in need of image-rich pages. I create websites and graphics that reflect YOU, your art, writing, products or services, and can give you the personalized attention needed to create your presence on the web.
The
sites listed below can be used as examples from which you might
get ideas about elements you would like to include on your site.
All sites include a customized name logo, rollover links, and resizing of your images for thumbnails
and pop-ups or scroll galleries.
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( Click screenshot thumbnail or the client's name to visit their site)
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Erin Thomas
Photography
Erin came to me with a request to update her site, but decided on a complete redesign because it was difficult to navigate the many galleries of her original site. She needed a place to display several sub-categories of her fine art photography as well as her commercial photography. |
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Christine Downs
Fine and Utilitarian Glass Art
Christine creates fine art and utilitarian glass with a wide variety of stylistic influences. She needed a redesign for her site which matched the visual aesthetic of her pieces, while easy to navigate through many pages that reflect the range of her work. |
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Ianthe Moul
Paintings and Jewelry
Ianthe needed a fairly simple site to display her paintings and jewelry. She had a limited budget and needed something that she could update on her own as her work progressed. |
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Joan Fabian
Contemporary
Art with Playful Themes.
Joan
had a need for several galleries to display
her paintings, mixed media, collaborations, and sculpture.
In keeping with her contemporary approach, we chose
a white background and spare design to
compliment her artworks. |
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Workplace Evolution
an organization of human potential catalysts
My client, Gayle Gregory, had employed me for a previous site, and now wanted to create one which brought together the talents of some of her associates. A shopping cart, blog, logo and business card design was a part of this project.
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DNA Gardens: Diana Newton & Associates
Landscape Design
| Diana had a fully created site, but wasn't pleased with the overall design. She contracted me for a re-design, adding more color, an improved logo, and larger, crisper images of her work. |
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Verretas
Glass Art by Jan Rabinowitch
| "Verretas" are the whimsical brainchild of Jan Rabinowitch, who creates both functional and fine art glass pieces resembling faces, animals, and beautiful abstract forms. She needed separate pop-up galleries and a clean design. |
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Robin
Urton
The
web designer's personal site of her original artworks.
This
site currently includes 5 separate galleries, expanding as my portfolio does..
Each pop-up loads into the right frame. Other pages (linked
at bottom) load onto separate pages. The site also includes
an area for art historical essays and a blog, which generates additional
traffic to the site. |
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Blue Fire Project
Blue Fire Project Programs are a way to grow that is fun, soulful, natural, creative, passionate, and deeply personally relevant.
Allison Bradley is an energy healer, therapist, and author. She had a very clear idea of how she wanted her website to "feel" and look, so I just needed to take all of these ideas and make them "webbable". The result is a very clean site with a warm aesthetic. |
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Liza Joy
Serving children, families, and community
"Liza Joy" is a website for Elizabeth Joy Zarek, who combines her talents of entertainment through music, educating parents who are raising toddlers, and the art of family photography. Her site needed to reflect the "joy" element of all that her work embraces, so we chose bright colors and fun fonts for the design. |
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Tracy
Turner
Vibrant
landscape and still-life paintings
This
site begins with an intro page, which leads to an
index of several galleries, separated by theme. Each
gallery scrolls down with large thumbnails. These
images can be clicked for pop-ups, which load into
separate windows (presized to fit each image). Additional
pages (bio, contact, etc) are linked at the bottom
of each page. This
example includes artist-created updates, tutored by
4RealArts. |
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Denise
Sirchie, Mosaics Northwest
Stunningly complex and intricate mosaic sculptures
Since
most of Denise's mosaic work is applied to 3-dimensional
sculptures, She had a specific desire to show at several
views of each piece. The site opens up with an intro
page, then enters her portfolio of thumbnails. Each
thumbnail opens up a pop-up page, where 3 alternative
images of each sculpture can be viewed. This site utilizes frames within the pop-ups. |
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Anderson
Bailey
Fine, Contemporary Pottery
Anderson
wanted a very spare approach, to match the aesthetic
of his pottery. The site opens directly to his gallery
page. Each page has navigation links to his bio, artist's
statement, resume, links, and contact pages. |
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Pure Possibility: The Grand Experiment
Explores and challenges what has been taken to be “givens” in our life and the fears that challenge us all.
Gayle Gregory, co-author of the book, "The Grand Experiment" needed logos, graphics, and clear navigation to spruce up a home-made site. Other needs included a blog, shopping cart, a contact form and newsletter sign-up button. In addition, she needed it to be easy for her to update on her own. |
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Katie Gleason
Photographer
Katie has a wonderful portfolio of journalism and travel photography, but a very limited budget to create her site. I got her started with a custom-made template, and gave her a couple of tutorials so that she can finish the site on her own. |
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Art Up, Youth Workshops
dedicated to improving the lives of youth in the Portland community, through art & community projects
Käthe Swaback came to me with a well-developed site which just needed some streamlining in navigation and unified look to her pages. With a small amount of tutoring, I helped make the site easier to use, more search-engine friendly,and a little more visually appealing..
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Old
World Fine Art Gallery
Abstract and representational art with an emphasis on combining
historical technique with modern aesthetics and a metaphysical
edge.
The
site opens with a brief flash intro, leading to a page
about this gallery located in Taos, NM. Separate galleries for each artist
include thumnails and pop-up images, as well as artist
statements for each artist. |
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Jani Moore
Watercolors
Jani paints landscapes, street scenes, animals, rusty cast-offs, people and flowers "to express the lush sensuous beauty that lies beneath the surface". Her site needed to include a large number of gallery pages to display the many themes in her art, and she began updating her site on her own, after given a few tutorial lessons. |
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Penelope Jewelry
by Laura Welch
Hand crafted sterling silver keepsake jewelry, also available in gold. Each piece portrays different childhood images in silhouette form. The design images are old world style with new age bestowal creating a fusion of new children’s style jewelry. |
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Michelle
Gallagher, "The Funny Thing"
whimsical
ceramic sculpture
Michelle
came to me with a nearly completed site, which needed
some re-design elements, new pages, and thumbnail images
and pop-ups added. For a very low cost, her site received
an overhaul that improved the overall functionality
of her site, plus a jazzier appearance! |
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Graffiti Fine Artists Workshops
Karen Karlsson: artist, teacher, and supporter of the arts
This artist/instructor needed a site to advertise her college classes, the works of her students, and her project to help young artists to transform graffiti expressions into fine art. Her site is continually evolving with new class offerings and exhibits. See the "exhibitions" pages for slideshows and thumbnail galleries. |
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Suzanne Betz (temporarily offline)
painter of abstracts, equines, and figurative images
Suzanne's needed 3 separate galleries for her equine images, figures, and abstracts. A black background supports the subtle veils of color of her paintings and drawings.. |
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Aligning With Soul
providing insight into your life's journey
Robert Zakian provides personal healing, conflict resolution, hypnotherapy and spiritual counseling. He needed a very simple, low-cost website that was clear, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to navigate. |
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Current Projects:
The following sites are either in process of being updated by the clients, or waiting for files to complete the work.
(transitional site, not linked)
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