Blue acrylic abstract painting
16×20
Available for purchase here

I listened to this interview with Rob Kalin, the founder of Etsy, on NPR. Thought I would share it here. 

Can I just say that I miss the days when Rob was running the site, and that I haven’t been excited the direction Etsy has been heading? There used to be honest-to-goodness handmade content on the site, and ONLY handmade at that time. Since Rob was fired, things have changed A LOT. Now, your guess is as good as mine if something was really made by hand or not. Look at a listing, and flip a coin, I say. A lot of top selling shops claim they’re handmade, but it’s pretty obvious they’re buying their items from alibaba. It gets me that they buy items for 20 cents, and sell them for $30+. Now that’s a way to make a profit, eh? 

I keep seeing buyers complaining about the lack of real handmade items in the Etsy forums. It’s a sad reality that Etsy is no longer handmade, even though they still claim they are. I can assure you MY stuff is hand painted by me, and only me, not by a machine or in a sweatshop in China.

Because I don’t like having all my eggs in one basket, I recently started offering my work on Ebay again. You can also visit my shop here on my website. If at any time you see a painting you like, but you don’t want to purchase it through Etsy or Ebay, please know you can purchase it directly through me.