I prefer the palette of #1 but the number of different fonts jars badly. Typographically #2 is better, but the colours not so good for me.
Hope that helps!
not ‘meet for a chat’, ‘contact Nick if you would like to discuss anything’
find that divine inspiration
I agree with IHN on some stuff and disagree on the others. On the two things above I would absolutely agree if it were my website on my work but for an artist it is just fine, I expect you to write differently, I'm completely fine with divine inspiration and chat. I like that it sounds wrong
Take your pick and don't go too wild. The main thing is that people can see your stuff as quickly as possible and that it displays well. People aren't great at reading any more and don't sweat the small stuff, they are buying your paintings and not your words. Work out how to show them well and take good photos of them
I am thinking that IF I can add some audio description to the paintings, they can be less formal and more flamboyant while the text remains more formal. The trouble with the phrases I originally had is that they sound great when said out loud with style and context but in isolation they can read poorly.
If I can sort that out, I will try and transfer the whole lot to the 'live' site tomorrow
Colours are deliberately more muted as there has been various feedback, not just on here, that the backgrounds compromised the paintings, hence the more muted tones.
More updates going in from about 9pm tonight when I have finished working on the car, jewellery, garage project, my day job and my dinner.
@tlr has come up with a great, really clean portfolio site using (funnily enough!) Adobe Portfolio: https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/adobe-portfolio/
wasn't going to mention it here as assumed it was expensive if you weren't already getting it free, but having just looked it's only actually a tenner a month for the hosted site [I]and[/I] the latest Photoshop + Lightroom which actually sounds pretty good (no idea how much Wix is in comparison, or is it free?)
The only downside is it's not aimed at e-commerce so if you did need to add that on, would need some 3rd party solution so may be more expensive/complex/not as slick.
