I’ve finished the gallery portion of wessforeman.com, giving the website a much more polished look and making it easier to find, read about, and purchase paintings. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.

The road to wessforeman.com version 2 is going swimmingly [that means good] - in fact, with this next phase, “the gallery overhaul“, the site will be skipping from version 1.2 directly to version 1.7 [that's how big a jump this will be].

Stay tuned to this channel for more…

I’ve just completed the first phase of renovation of the website [wessforeman.com version 1.2], and it looks fantastic if I do say so myself. Among other things, I made the simple menu along the top look cleaner [the links change colors as the pointer hovers over them]. The other obvious addition is the right hand sidebar where I’ve added a place for news and for links of interest, as well as a few photos [which I hope to change out from month to month].

Overall I’m happy with what I’ve got, though I may tweak it a little. Phase two will be an overhaul of the gallery - showing available paintings first, adding sizes and prices, etcetera. In phase three I will tackle the guestbook - I’m not totally sure what happened, but I think my web host, VizaWeb, updated the guestbook module which threw it into a default template which does not match the rest of wessforeman.com . . . anyway, this is what I will be addressing.

I’m working on a renovation of the website [wessforeman.com]. I need a way to show the paintings I have available [and for sale] in my studio right now. As it stands the gallery shows some of my better paintings of the past - some are in the studio, some are at the Louisiana Furniture Gallery in Ponchatoula and a great percentage of them are already sold . . . not to mention the fact that I don’t have titles, sizes and prices listed.

Another thing I’m considering is adding some short videos - studio tours, painting how-to’s, etcetera - I’ve just purchased a larger memory card for my digital camera so I can now take useable videos.

Check back often for these changes, and let me know if you have any ideas for me.

When he was Alone, 22×28″, $300

Waiting to Exhale (Winter Oak), 30×40″, $700

Like a fly
in a spider web we are
caught in this world
so hold on to your fortunes
you are
a butterfly trapped in
a spiritual caccoon
a sleeping beauty
this seems to be quite true to me

Like a Fly, 24×30″, $400

Looking forward to
take some time off
Drive down to the coast
talk to some seagulls
Swim in the ocean for
three days straight

Talk to some Seagulls, 22×28″, $300

Robot Graveyard #4, 30×24″, $400 

this red ball, it bounces
down the hill
ever down

we make castles
in the sandpile
out of sand

we turn circles
in the playground
we all fall down

ever down

simple games
we played

Simple Games we Played, 22×28″, $300