What If You're An Artist Who Has A Hard Time Focusing?

Artist Debbie Dicker

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "It was that lack of confidence and which didn't match my abilities."

Now: "I just like buzzing with the excitement for where I'm going to go from here. This is more than just my business. This is about me."

Artist Jina Kim

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Before I joined the program, my top two challenges were lack of confidence and not knowing what to do."

Now: "The biggest result of this program during COVID, during isolation right now, is to sell 11 paintings. What! I sold 11 paintings! I still cannot believe that it happened, and I have two more commissions coming.

I feel like crying."

Artist Marie Bender

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I remember the days of selling something for a thousand bucks and going Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. I was discounting my art then."

Now: "Recently someone asked me, 'Is the price negotiable?' So I said, 'No, it's not and I sold that painting for $25,000."

My art sales have increased in a way that I could not even have imagined. I feel so much more empowered and I felt comfortable.

Artist Andrea Hulley

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Balance. Trying to focus on doing art and my business. And a full-time job and let alone being a mother with two children and a husband and to boot. So yes, my hands were full and to give it balance where I could focus on my artwork was the major challenge. I had to shift that mindset."

Now: During the pandemic, "in one week I had three commissions that I didn’t anticipate."

Artist Leah Smithton

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I didn't know where to start first, what order to do things in. And I wasn't sure how long to try something to know whether or not it's working."

Now: "The time that they spend on the fence, they just aren't going to be able to get that back. So if you go ahead and do it now."

Artist Mary Farmer's art sales 

June 15, 2020 to August 03, 2020

Artist Jina Kim's art sells her art from her home studio.

2019 verus 2020

Artist Angie Smith starts sharing her mission during COVID and stops trying to sell herself. 

June 15, 2020