Artists are the movers and shakers of today’s world. They’ve the power to transform the world. It is a responsibility of an artist to spread his/her voice or work to the complete world with fewer efforts. If you are stick to the old days – just to paint, show in art gallery, and sell what you like; then it means you do not want to join the steps with modern world. Taking your artwork to the masses helps you to know about their opinion, become familiar with current situations of the modern society and gives you a chance to earn money for your bread-and-butter. More number of viewers means you’ll get more feedback for your artwork.

World Wide Web (Internet) is the largest network spread all over the world. If you’re an artist and want to spread your work to the masses then Internet is the best and only one method at this time.  In this article, we’ll guide you how to mark your presence on World Wide Web and get a chance to spread your artwork.

First Step – Go Digital

To use this medium, you’ve to make your artwork digital. Almost each artist prefers to capture snapshots using High-Definition Digital Camera or having scanned their work for distributing through printed posters. We’ve seen various artists using Adobe Photoshop, a premier graphic editing software, to scan and edit their work themselves. If you don’t want to get familiar with the computer and digital technology then hire an experienced Photoshop Professional to digitize your work.

Second Step – Book a Name & Space

Now, you’ve to book a domain name (Website name) and buy a hosting space for it. Website Hosting means buying a dedicated or shared space on Web Server to run your Website. There are numerous Web Host Companies, but we suggest you to go with a brand name instead of dealing with a reseller group. Few famous Web Host providers are: HostGator, Directi, GoDaddy, etc. You can search for more on Web search engines like Google. Contact at least three to four vendors before making any final decision.

Third Step – Develop your Art Blog

Blog gives you a platform to publish your art, write content to describe it, show your portfolio, and resume on the Web. You need an online Content Management System, also abbreviated as CMS, to setup the Blog and publish your work on the World Wide Web. With CMS, you’ll need a theme (design) for your blog. Yes, there are free themes available in the market but they are just for unprofessional graphic artists. Therefore, we’ll recommend you to go for a paid and premium these designed by the experts.

Now, we’ll guide you to select the best Content Management System and design theme for your art blog.

CMS for Art Blog

Content Management System is a backend structure to organize your art and other content for publishing on the Internet. The design of a CMS depends upon the selected theme for it, which acts as a front end to display your art. Three top Content Management Systems are: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. Even if you’re going to hire a professional to setup the blog and configure CMS; sill it is always required to monitor the project yourself. And one day, you may have to manage the Website yourself to reduce the expenditure.

WordPress is the best CMS for beginners, Drupal needs you to be hardcore technical, and Joomla is trickier. Other options are Gallery and Coppermine Gallery but they are new players. One more is ExpressionEngine, but it is paid.

We suggest you to go for WordPress as it’s a breeze to understand its working if you’re familiar with computer.

Few Selected Artistic Themes for WordPress

There is countless number of artistic themes available on the Internet, but we’re mentioning the selected themes hereby. We hope that you’ll like our collection.

Photoland

WP Zoom has crafted this nice looking theme. The pictures are arranged in thumbnail view on front, and large preview of selected picture is showing on top.

Preview of Photoland theme by WP Zoom

Photoblog

It is another elegant theme from WP Zoom. As the name suggest, you can use this theme to organize your art with the content to attract the visitors.

Snapshot of Photoblog theme from WP Zoom

FStop

It’s a good looking artistic theme from Photocrati. Images are arranged in thumbnail view on the bottom. The automatic slider shows preview of an image one at a time. Users can also click the image to see its preview.

Preview of FStop theme from Photocrati

Photocrati also provide similar concept in its other themes with different color schemes and effects – Vignette, Prime, and Range Finder.

AutoFocus Pro

AutoFocus Pro is a child theme for free Thematic theme. The best thing about AutoFocus+ is that it comes with Dynamic Flickr Integration. Flickr is the largest image hosting Website on the Internet.

Preview of AutoFocus+ Theme

Conclusion

If you do not want to bring your artwork to capture the attention of masses, then it is not serving the purpose to transform the world. Creating an Art Blog is the best way to spread your voice to the complete world with fewer efforts.