:30 - Melissa shares her experience with varnishing paintings - acrylic artists will appreciate this a lot

2:40 - Melissa introduces Claudine Helmuth - painter, author, licensed artist and teacher

4:09 - Claudine talks about her history of how she got started in her full time art career (she learned HTML & web design early in her career, before she went full time as an artist)

7:45 - Claudine talks about every entrepreneur’s recurring nightmare: will I make enough money - even after 13 years on the path

11:20 - How Claudine’s various sources of income break down

13:40 - Why Claudine has decided to move all of her workshops online instead of in person

15:30 - Claudine talks about her experience getting dropped from Home Shopping Network

17:40 - Claudine breaks down how she started building each of her various streams of income

22:30 - we talk about acting before you know everything and testing things out without committing to them 100%

27:45 - how Claudine designed her digital downloads that she sells for people to print out on their own and put together themselves

32:00 - Claudine really approaches her art career as a business and she thinks its fun - her attitude is really refreshing - and she talks about how her audience has helped her create new and interesting directions in her art business

To see more of Claudine's work, her website is CollageArtist.com