10 Free WordPress Themes for Artists

Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center. It provides visual artists (photographers, painters, videographers, motionographers, illustrators) a better way of presenting their latest work online using a minimalist side-scrolling homepage. Emphasis is placed on your content, rather than on an overly designed theme.

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f8 lite is a free theme for WordPress that can transform your Web site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio Web site. SEO optimized, iPhone compatible,grid-based css, slideshow-enabled, built-in multimedia support, auto or manual thumbnail control, Gravatars, plus much, much more.

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Monochrome Author is a free widgetized theme for WordPress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, posts with thumbnail and pullquote custom fields options and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

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Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.

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Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for WordPress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, categorized posts with thumbnails on the homepage and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

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Monochrome Author is a free widgetized theme for WordPress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, posts with thumbnail and pullquote custom fields options and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

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f8 is a unique theme for WordPress that can transform your Web site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio Web site. SEO optimized, iPhone compatible, 100% customizable options page, grid-based css,  slideshow-enabled, built-in multimedia support, auto or manual thumbnail control, Gravatars, plus much, much more. All colors, fonts, front page categories, contact info, slideshow height and other options can be managed on the f8 theme options page. There is no need to edit theme code, unless you want to customize f8.

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Modularity Lite is a free multimedia theme framework for WordPress by Graph Paper Press. The theme design was developed with users in mind who appreciate visual browsing and prefer a minimal layout, with their photos and multimedia featured front and center.

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Gridline Lite is a free minimalist theme for WordPress 2.8 and up with full sidebar and bottombar widget support that utilizes a CSS framework to help streamline development and customization. Gridline pulls in the most recent post, with five recently posted stories listed in offset backgrounds below to keep your readers attention.

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.All these are free themes, but you will have to sign up to Graph Paper Press (for free of course) to download them. This way you will also be notified of updates and new themes coming out.

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Installation of all these listed themes is included in the Creative Web Biz Kit for Artists and Other Creative Entrepreneurs, along with a self-hosted wordpress blog set-up, 13 preinstalled plugins and a free ecourse!

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