Frog on the Porch

Although I need money like everyone and I get asked to sell artwork pretty frequently, I have a mixed relationship with selling things I’ve created.

At one point I had an online flower seed store selling varieties I had bred and grown over the years. It became surprisingly successful pretty quickly, but I found that I wasn’t meant for all the ins-and-outs of harvesting, drying, packing, printing, shipping, and tracking everything all the time. That removed the joy from the process of growing, photographing, and sharing the flowers. And, because flowers are themselves a form of expression, when you run out of homegrown, heirloom, seeds you cannot simply make or find more.

So I closed the shop and just returned to giving the seeds away according to my own ability level. In the same way, if painting ever became “a business” that required nonstop, consistent, production on a clock I think I would stop. The essence of artistic expression is spontaneous and irregular in form, like homegrown flowers.

All that said, I’m definitely a starving artist even though I have a day job. If you contact me to ask about buying something, please allow a couple days to reply. I’m disabled and chronically ill, as well as working full time so it will be helpful if you can include the following details:

A. What you want to purchase
B. Which country you live in
C. The amount you’re proposing to pay for it
D. Any questions you have about the piece

Or, if you want to donate to me, I do appreciate that but it is not necessary. My Cash App and PayPal QR codes are here:

This website (FOTP) is supposed to cost me about $50 a year to host until I reach a limit on space that I don’t even understand. It would be nice to make that amount back, but if not I will live. Don’t over-stretch yourself to support me, and I mean that.