Today I put up the new design for the site.  Total time from original design to final fixes was probably something between 15 and 20 hours.

This version is much easier for me to update with new artwork – something I needed to do because I’ve done a ton of new stuff since the last design – and the only place you could see it is by scrolling back through the blog.  Now it’s all there – plus some stuff that never even made it to the blog.  In the future I’ll be able to add each piece as they’re finished.  I realize this design probably doesn’t seem as “slick” as the last one, but it is WAY more functional on my end.  I stopped selling myself as a “web designer” a long time ago.  Obviously my next goal is to get together enough decent paintings to get into a gallery.  The goal for the new website design is to showcase my fine art portfolio – not my friends’ sites (although those can be found in the blogroll, by the way), my “autobiography” or my resume.

Also – all the paintings were photographed the weekend before last in natural lighting and photoshopped back into shape, so the images you’ll find there are NOT the same crappy process photos you’ve seen on the blog and are a much truer (although you can never really approximate what a painting looks like in real life) representation of the work.  This is also true of all the (newer) drawings and sketches which have now been scanned instead of photographed.

Let me know what you think….