4Real Arts: Creative web design for artists and creative markets

 

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Portfolio Sites for Artists:

 

Christine Downs, glass art

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.

 

 

Patianne Stevenson: Art on the Menu

Patianne's food-based art wanted a web presence that was both fun and contemporary, with easy navigation between separate galleries for her paintings and sculpture. I also designed her blog, which closely resembles the design of the site, for an integrated appearance.

Art on the Menu: Patianne Stevenson

 

 

Ianthe Art
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.



 

 

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.

 

Joan Fabian

 

 

Verretas Glass

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.

 

 

 

Robin Urton
The web designer's personal site of her original artworks.

This site currently includes galleries for available and archived artworks, expanding as my portfolio does.. Other pages include a gallery/store prints and pendants, and info about shows, and classes, Art historical essays and a blog generate additional traffic to the site.


Robin Urton: Fine Art

 

 

Tracy Turner art

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.

 

 

Claire Mack
Contemporary Mixed Media Paintings,
ranging from representational to abstract symbolism

Claire needed a site that was easy to navigate, had separate galleries for different stages of her career, and which would open up into "lightbox", where the enlargement floats above the thumbnail pages.

Claire Mack, contemporary mixed media art

 

 

Anderson Bailey

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.

 

 

 


Suzanne Betz

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..

 

Suzanne Betz

 



Art Up

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..

 

 

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.

 

Jani Moore watercolors

 

 

Art Mirrors by Mary Alvarado

Art Mirrors by Mary Alvarado
These fanciful hand-painted mirrors include ceramic and natural sculptural elements. Each mirror is unique and durable.

A very basic site. This site includes a scroll gallery of 20 mirrored art works. Other pages include "About Mary", "About the Mirrors ", "Special Orders", "Contact" and "Links".

 

 

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.

Erin Thomas Photography

 

 

Denise Sirchie Mosaics

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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Workplace Evolution

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.

 

 

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.


DNA Gardens; Diana Newton & Associates

 

 

blue fire project
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.

 

 

Ananda Psychotherapy

Heart-based psychotherapy for the Body, Mind, and Soul.. Joy Misra wanted the visual direction of her site to reflect the type of client she wanted to attract to her practice. The rich imagery that evoke stories, myths and archetypes represent the healing of the soul's wounds.

Ananda Psychotherapy

 

 

Aligning With Soul

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.

 

 

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.

Liza Joy

 

 

Pure Possibility
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.

 

Bridge Wellness: Acupuncture

Amanda needed a site to advertise her acupuncture services, but came to me with only a logo and some text copy. By purchasing low-cost limited-copyrght images through a stock photo agency, we were able to create an attractive, effective, and simple site..

Bridge Wellness