● FREE · STUDIO EDITION NO. 01

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The Full-Time Artist Foundation

The question, the number, and the three rules I set before I started painting full-time. Seven short steps.

CONTENTS

Inside this edition

01

The deathbed question

Two versions of your life, and which one you want to look back as.

02

Name your monster

The fear standing between them. A named fear is a smaller one.

03

Find your number

What you need each month, and what you keep from one painting.

04

My numbers, in full

How I got to just over five paintings a month.

05

Three rules so you don't quit

Mine are printed in. Use them, or write your own.

Made for the artist who keeps saying “one day”.

✦ You make art you love, and part of you wonders if it could pay the bills. But you’ve never sat down and done the sums.

✦ There’s a fear standing between you and that life, and you haven’t given it a name yet.

✦ You’ve got bills, people who rely on you, maybe a job you can’t just walk out of. You need real numbers before you leap, not hype.

A letter from me

Why I'm giving you this

This year, I stopped putting off the dream. I'm building a full-time art career from scratch, and I'm filming every step, real numbers included.
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Each Studio Edition is one of those steps: the exact pages I worked through, with my own answers printed beside yours. Take it, make a copy, and make it yours.
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​Smile at the monster, Val

Val Meyer

Artist. Twenty years building brands for other people before this.

Every week I film the next step of building my art career, real numbers included.

Smile at the monster. See you in the studio.

© 2026 Val Meyer