[hacky_engineer]

Some feedback: Firstly, this is loading full res photos on the homepage, which making the site extremely slow to load. You should generate some small thumbnails so that loading times aren't so terrible when looking at these gallery pages.

I would love more of a satirical approach. I would design it to be a very professional looking website, maybe knock off christie's or the louvre's design or something. Maybe have bio's about the authors (obviously keep it safe, because they're kids). And jack up the prices to be 100x what they currently are. Do really professional sounding descriptions for each piece (maybe you can use chatgpt to do this). "Art STUFF, is a still life Simeon. It's use of bright color pastel contradicts the subject matter of the piece and causes the viewer to consider the actual tools of the artist versus what the stereotypical tools that Simeon finds being pushed onto him." Or whatever...

Maybe professionally frame the pieces (or photoshop them to look professionally framed).

This seems like a fun side project. I'm also in the kid's market. I'd might be interested in partnering in some way if you're open to it.

[jkurnia]

Thanks for the feedback. That's a really intriguing idea. It would be interesting to test once the site has more traffic.

Optimizing the images is definitely on my to-do list.

Feel free to reach out about partnering. I'm at julia (at) zidisha.org.