Here are some quick sketches of how the home page and Featured Artist pages will be composed. I didn't stray much at all from my earlier drafts, but I did add an artist directory to the second page. One suggestion I took from the classroom feedback was to minimize the bottom navbar/footer. No need to have that navbar the same size as the one on top.
I'll also add to the featured artist page a link to that artist's own website if there is one - it'd be a nice feature to have, so people could look further into a particular artist's catalog of work. I don't want to show the artist's entire collection here... just keep it to three main pieces. I'm mentioning this here, as I forgot to add that to the sketch at left.
Gridwise, this won't be too difficult to arrange once I get started on that. However, I would like to try and extend the man navbar a bit further out on the sides than the rest of the page, just to break up the total box look.
As for the logos, I'm not sold on any one of the few logos I've sketched out so far. I'll really need to dig into the font catalog to pick out something that'll fit with the city of Danville. It's a rural community, nestled east of Champaign, and very close to the Indiana border. So in other words, I'll be looking for a more homey and antique font than one that's polished and sleek. I don't want anything TOO antique, or it'll give the impression the Art League's filled with grandmothers and retirees, which is definitely not the case here.
