I’ve thought long and hard about how my art blog should look. I know, I know, it looks like millions of other blogs from WordPress.
I wanted my art blog to look “generic” for several reasons.
I don’t want people to confuse my art blog with my art website. Hopefully if you’ve arrived here, with all this web-art-chit-chat, without a picture in sight, you’ll think, “Ah, ha, maybe I’ll go visit her art website, Mary Baker Art, and see what the heck she paints.”
I actually found that putting a painting up on the blog took away from the text, so I took the painting off.
And having the art blog look generic takes the pressure off. I agonize over my art website, but I feel much more relaxed adding to the art blog.
I will admit that I did fiddled around with all sorts of ways to personalize my art blog, and none of the designs are as good as the one by WordPress. So I decided if it ain’t broke, why fix it?