LT Artist is a painter's portfolio and studio theme for Elementor (free): the studio wall as the home hero, with paintings drawn to scale on a centre line and a room sheet of titles, sizes, prices and red dots for sold work, available paintings, series, commissions with sizes to scale and example prices, open studio days, exhibitions and studio notes. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, the Studio and Contact pages, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): Studio, Contact, Studio notes. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, Paintings, Available paintings, Series, Tide, Rooms, Fields, Commissions, Sizes and prices, How a commission works, Studio, Exhibitions, Open studio, Contact, Studio notes.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Artist (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the painting enquiry form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| Paintings | – | Pro |
| Available paintings | Paintings | Pro |
| Series | Paintings | Pro |
| Tide | Series | Pro |
| Rooms | Series | Pro |
| Fields | Series | Pro |
| Commissions | – | Pro |
| Sizes and prices | Commissions | Pro |
| How a commission works | Commissions | Pro |
| Studio | – | Free |
| Exhibitions | Studio | Pro |
| Open studio | Studio | Pro |
| Contact | – | Free |
| Studio notes (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#hang).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| On the wall | #hang |
| Available paintings | #available |
| Series | #series |
| The studio | #studio |
| Commissions | #commissions |
| How a commission works | #process |
| Open studio | #visit |
| Exhibitions | #shows |
| Studio notes | #notes |
- The studio wall, to scale: The home page opens with this month's paintings hung on a centre line in true proportion to their size, with a one-metre scale bar.
- A room sheet with red dots: Every painting has a number, an italic title, year, medium, size and price; sold paintings get the gallery's red dot.
- Available paintings and series: Originals shown on equal patches of wall so small studies look small, series pages and a record of sold work.
- Commissions with sizes to scale: Four standard canvas sizes drawn to scale with example prices, the four steps of a commission and common questions.
- Free Elementor and a ready enquiry form: Every page is built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a painting enquiry form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Paintings → Available paintings, Series (Tide, Rooms, Fields)
- Commissions → Sizes and prices, How a commission works
- Studio → Exhibitions, Open studio
- Studio notes
- Contact
Header button: Ask about a painting (link /contact/#enquire), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Artist options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Artist options and the menu scrolls to these sections: On the wall, Available paintings, Series, The studio, Commissions, How a commission works, Open studio, Exhibitions, Studio notes. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Artist onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Prussian blue (buttons, links, centre line) | #1B3A5C |
| Graphite (medium, size, soft text) | #55595F |
| Ivory black (text) | #1D1F22 |
| Red dot (sold marks only) | #C4302B |
| Gesso (page, the studio wall) | #F6F6F3 |
| Raw linen (tinted sections) | #DDD8CD |
| Hairlines | #C3C0B8 |
| Payne's grey (dark bands, footer) | #2D353F |
| Text on Payne's grey | #F6F6F3 |
| Soft text on Payne's grey | #BFC7D0 |
| Button hover | #10283F |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Headings and titles (Ibarra Real Nova) | Ibarra Real Nova |
| Facts and menus (Fustat) | Fustat |
| Reading text (Ibarra Real Nova) | Ibarra Real Nova |
| Buttons (Fustat) | Fustat |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Painting enquiry on the Contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), Phone (optional), I am asking about (required), Painting title or room-sheet number, Size you have in mind, Where will it hang?, Open studio days. Email subject: “Painting enquiry from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. Iris replies to every enquiry by email, usually within two working days (sample).”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Iris CalderHarrow QuaySpringfield
- Keep every painting's proportions true: when you change a painting, change its `lt-s-<w>x<h>` size class and, on the hero wall, the container width (cm / 440 cm).
- Red dot means sold: never use the accent colour for text, buttons or decoration, and never on the dark band.
- Numbers beside paintings must match the room sheet; do not number sections.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| Painting in thick strokes of ultramarine, cobalt and white like a breaking wave | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Painting of pink garden roses in a white jug with a painted pattern | 1200 × 1500 px |
| Painting in bands of peach sky, deep blue water and a strip of green shore | 1400 × 1800 px |
| Close view of a painting in ochre and olive with heavy palette-knife texture | 1200 × 1200 px |
| Painting in flat layers of soft violet blue | 1500 × 1000 px |
| Painting of red and green boat shapes on orange water under a blue sky | 1400 × 1000 px |
| Painting in blocks of yellow ochre and red with a scraped texture | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A painter seen from behind working on a large canvas in a bright studio | 1600 × 1100 px |
| A hand with a fine brush starting a blank canvas on an easel | 1200 × 1500 px |
| A well-used palette with teal and white oil paint, brushes and tubes | 1200 × 1500 px |
| Visitors seen from behind looking at a framed painting | 1600 × 1100 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Artist is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hang | the studio wall in the home hero: a row of lt-work paintings centred on the centre line, widths in proportion to centimetres |
lt-work | one hung painting (container, width = cm / wall width); is-sold adds the red dot; child lt-work__no is its room-sheet number |
lt-paint | painting image; add a size class lt-s-<w>x<h> (centimetres) so it keeps its true proportions |
lt-scale | one-metre scale bar under the wall |
lt-sheet | room sheet grid; each entry lt-sheet__item (number, italic title, medium and size, price or lt-sold) |
lt-patch | patch of wall drawn to scale (100 × 100 cm; lt-patch–tall 140 × 160 cm for commission sizes) |
lt-blank | blank canvas (Divider widget) on a patch; size class lt-s-<w>x<h> |
lt-title | painting or series title in italics |
lt-facts | medium, size and year line (sans, graphite) |
lt-sold | red dot plus the word Sold |
lt-series-row | one series in the series list |
lt-step | numbered commission step (a real sequence) |
lt-date-row | dated row (open studio days, exhibitions) |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact block |
lt-price | label + value row |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Artist
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Artist uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
How do I add my own paintings at the right size?
Swap the image and give it the size class for its centimetres (for example lt-s-70×90). On the hero wall, set the painting's container width to its width divided by 440 cm. The AI kit explains both steps.
How do I mark a painting as sold?
Change its price line to the Sold line with the red dot, and add the class is-sold to the painting on the hero wall. The room sheet and the wall then agree.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own paintings.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, the Studio and Contact pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, Paintings and Commissions pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Artist. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Also for Joomla
LT Artist also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Artist Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Artist
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket