Hi Anne, you and your channel have such great potential. You can be at the forefront of a powerful movement: helping people rediscover and appreciate their creative abilities. Get ready to be one of the leaders in this new KZfaq era.

Hi Anne. Thank you so much for doing these videos! My friend sent me week 4. It showed up in her feed. I watched that & now I’m going thru them from the beginning. Yes, I’d be interested in downloads of your lists. I have adhd, too, I’m an artist over 50 starting an art biz, and (deep breath) working on being more visible out in the world. :-)

Wow! Your view is amazing!!!

So glad you are doing the ThinkMedia thing! It made such a huge difference for us. It's not magic, and it's not "overnight success," but it gave me information I didn't have and didn't even know I needed, as well as information about some great tools I didn't know existed. I wish I had been aware of it when we first started. My challenge coming up is similar to what you just had: I have three events I need to prepare for and participate in, AND I'm still committed to getting our videos created and posted on time. I'm having to buckle down and be as efficient with my time as possible- which is a good thing anyway, right?

I love the driving home painting! This was so much fun to watch you paint and listen to the process. I love the finished painting.

I tried a new thumbnail look. I personally don’t like it however I hear the style I picked helps draw viewers in😳 we shall see. I love that you are getting your art out there, that’s brave. Well for me it would be brave. My confidence with my art is quite low. I’m excited to watch your art videos.

This walk is gorgeous! The water view! Just stunning. One of our favorite vacations was our time spent in Seattle. I’ve been so consistent however, I have not put in the work you are. That course sounds great. Will you be letting us know how it went? Looks like today is the first day of that class.

New subscriber here! 🎉 I think I’ll check out that challenge! 💫 I pray much success on your channel! 🙏🏼😊

Congratulations, I'm 7 weeks behind you...lol... You can do this.

Good luck with your event, wishing you big sales (or at least enough to cover expenses)! Love the tote bags ~ Nan

Anne, are you using either Tube Buddy or VidIQ? I see no Hashtags, no Keywords and tags on your videos. They can help you get more views and more subscribers ✨✨

Hey, I am already enrolled in that challenge. I'll see you there 🍀

So interesting to see in real time, how much of an impact consistency makes in the actual numbers. Thank you for sharing your journey!

I love the "Colors of Ballard" concept! Especially on a tote bag!!! Great idea, Anne! And fun and fascinating to see how you are implementing it, by heat pressing the design, yourself.

What a beautiful area you live in Anne. So pretty. Thank you for head up about Think Media's challenge. I will take a look.

That coast view is GORGEOUS! What a nice surprise that was! Congrats on your growth, Anne🎉. Oh also…did you plan to PERFECTLY mesh your outfit with the green leaves of the trees? It was a visual extravaganza…in the best way! ❤

Thanks for the update, Anne

WOW!! What an incredibly impressive work of art! I’m just in awe of the time and care it takes to go to places in your neighborhood and color-match special things. I’d love to hear about more of the colors and what inspired them. Plus, I’d love to hear more about the process of your expeditions to go do color-matching, like…did you bring one watercolor set with you? Or, how many tubes of paint did you tote around with you, and how long did the project take? I’m SUPER fascinated!

Loved this video Anne! So interesting to hear some of your process with making the design!

Always fun to try out new toys 😀

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I love this so much. I’ve been collecting the colors of my land and community this year as a project. Wow! I hope you sell all of them, but if you don’t I want one. You are just a girl with her heat press learning something new. I love it! I would, maybe, make a large poster explaining the meaning behind your tote. Otherwise you are going to have to say it 70,000 times.

I loved watching this!

It's great having a new toy to play with isn't it? !!! 😄 That looked like a fun thing to do once you got the hang of it. I hope that you manged to get many bags printed! ☺

Liked and Subscribed, keep going, don't stop, be consistent, you got this.😃

Very interesting to hear about your learning curve with making videos. And speaking of exploring new video techniques, I love the intro and outro music and titles in this video. 😃

Really helpful explanation of how Amazon affiliates works. Thank u!

I love the analogy of classical vs jazz music! Thx for the great perspective on painting loosely and helpful, specific tips. 👍

I love following your progress and really appreciate your transparency and honesty.

Very helpful step-by-step tips! Thank you!

I love to see us learning and growing as we go. Nice progress, Anne! Good luck with the festival and looking forward to seeing what you came up with. Im working on a video that id like to finish and schedule for july 4th weekend, and maybe this is the week i speak to camera. Ive been moving toward it but its hard!

That cut to another shot really made me giggle 🙌😆

Could really relate to the needing to change the internal dialogue! Thank u for sharing!

I had not realized tracing paper could be used in this way. Thank you - very helpful.

So interesting to follow your progress. And really a GREAT perspective you offer on starting a KZfaq channel -- really reframes the endeavor in a very helpful and positive! Thank u!

Fantastic! Very inspiring to follow along on your journey. And will be very helpful to us considering doing the same!

Awesome evolution Anne! And I am excited to find out what you are preparing for that festival 💥💥 I hope you get a lot of visitors AND buyers. Don't forget to have your YT channel written on your visit cards to give to the people visiting your booth 🌻🌻

I used to love watching the Golden Girls!!! Good luck with getting monetized Anne. I am your target person but I'm not called Jen! I am 61 and I need to make an income from my art/channel! I'm only just getting used to KZfaq after more than 2 years and feel that I have been winging it up until now. I am so pleased that I found you. (I would put emoji's in here but they are not working for some strange reason!)

This week I learned how to drop in a photo over the video and I started using a Bluetooth mic. Small baby steps of learning over here! I wanted to share that I’m using Adobe Rush to edit. It’s like the baby version of Adobe Premiere. I eventually want to learn premiere so I thought that would be a good start. I think I remember you saying somewhere you also have the Adobe suite so I thought I’d mention it as an option. Good luck at your festival!!

Isn’t it great when you get excited about a new skill? This week has been a down week for me. I’m still recovering from the fast-paced momentum I was experiencing when I was teaching AND creating content. So I guess I’ve allowed June to be my “recovery month”. I haven’t created as much in terms of video. I needed some time to get centered and in vacation mode. I’ve been learning about script writing for educational videos as well as ways to monetize beyond Adsense. My creative brain REALLY needed some rest. lol. An idea for you… Consider doing a LIVE video where you are teaching some art concepts. The LIVE hours don’t count toward Watch time… but the replay hours do! That’s a great benefit because if your live is an hour long tutorial and people watch even 10 minutes of the replay, you’re getting 10 min watch time PER viewer as opposed to maybe 1.5-3 min per viewer. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Anne, I would keep the titel that is popular with a similar picture every week for the Challenge. That makes it easier for people to discover them and separate them from your regular videos. At least that is what I am going to do after researching YT...follow what is popular. It's easy to change thumbnails and it avoids overload. Meanwhile, keep going...that's the only way to go 💙

One of the things I did that I found VERY helpful was something I was somewhat skeptical of at first. It's a free online course. Five days of daily live videos, where you can comment and ask questions. A separate forum where you are given challenges and encouraged to meet them. A lot of the information they discussed was very useful to me, and my channel has, in fact, grown tremendously since I started doing some of what they suggest. This includes publishing one video that did so well that it, alone, reached the watch hours required for monetization, and brought in thousands of new subscribers. This was after three years of regularly posting and being "stuck" at a fairly low level of engagement. Some of what they are doing is promoting their paid course, and I understand that. I chose not to do the paid course not because I didn't think it would be useful, but because I felt like I wasn't really at the right place for it, as far as my goals and available time. I have been watching to see when they offer the 5-day thing again, and they just announced it, so I've come over here to let you know about it. courses.seancannell.com/youtube-1k-challenge-sign-up-july-2024 The daily videos begin on July 8. If you are unable to attend them live, you can watch a recorded version later, as long as you've signed up for the challenge. These five videos gave me a good list of things to work on and improve, and a better understanding of how some things work, as well as some great online resources that I hadn't ever considered because I didn't know any such thing was available.

I love your 'loose' paintings. Your loose is clear and crisp to me. I used to associate loose with sloppy after a watercolour tutor I had used to splash paint all over the place. I do like a modicum of self control! 😂 Setting a timer is such a good idea and I like the bonus idea too! 😍

I love colour and the endless combinations that can be made with it! You have excellent presentation skills. I can't wait to see more of you on KZfaq Anne! I am definitely going to try out a slow colour studio book. 😍

This is such a good idea! I have notebooks full of writing and sketches buy NOT of colour! I really want to give this a go as colour is one of the most important aspects of my art. ☺

I like your laser beam focus! 😁 I am looking forward to seeing your monetizing journey as well as your art! I would love to monetize my channel and am going to soak up all the information I can from watching other monetizers! ☺

I love the dancing at the beginning! I really like your style of art work. The table looked so professional and cohesive. I would add one extra tip (you probably do this already) and that is when you have all your table set up, before you pack it away remember to take a photograph so that you know where to put everything when you set it out again. 😊

Great suggestions! Thank you for sharing, Anne!

Thank you for this Anne! So many places that I have never thought of before! Your art is wonderful! 😍

Hi! Just wanted to support you! ❤ your channel. I was an art major in college