Copy the sentences below into your journal and fill in the blanks. Feel free to illustrate your musings if you like. Once, I lived in a tree house because ______________________________________________. I furnished it with ____________________________________________________________. My tree house had a style you might call __________________________________________. My tree house looked like __________________________________________________. People would say this about me:_____________________________________________________. Why did I create this assignment for you? Because making art is about being a bit weird. Let your inner weird come out! (Want to know more about the importance of this? Check out my free video series on ‘Why what makes you weird makes your brand’ here. And think about furnishing a tree house with your products! Extra credit for drawing your tree house. I can’t wait to see what you do! Seriously, I’m falling a bit in love with you all. Lilla Xo Join the fun and show us your images
New bonus videos for the Home Décor course!
We are thrilled to bring you some brilliant technical instruction videos in Photoshop from Corinna Buchholz of Piddix.com. These will be included as a bonus in MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor, and will show you how to: Make a tabletop presentation for licensing using an existing template Alter the background of your presentation to make your products stand out Rearrange the items on a pre-existing template to suit your needs Turn your own iphone product photos into blank templates to showcase your artwork If you haven’t yet booked your place, hurry up and book now as class starts on Monday! About Corinna: Artist and archivist Corinna Buchholz got her start on etsy, where she was one of the top 10 handmade sellers (out of over a million shops) for five years. Corinna’s vintage and historically inspired images are in use on more than 10,000 products in retailers around the
Direct from AtlantaMart: 10 hot trends in Home Décor
It’s Reine Sloan from Lilla Rogers Studio here! I have just returned from the huge AtlantaMart 2016 trade show in Georgia, where I explored three skyscrapers (a total of 57 floors) of the freshest products and trends in Home Decor and Gifts. The sheer enormity of the show brings home just how huge an opportunity this is for artists, so I wanted to share 10 hot trends in home décor spotted at the show. THE TOP TEN (1) Vintage style clocks were popping up everywhere in all different shapes, colors and sizes. These were in the CBK showroom! (2) Lots of warm wood and nature elements complimented by a bit of fringe or girls accents (3) Plenty of golds and wallpapers with large motifs and bold design (4) Hand lettering with painterly words and expressions, particularly in wall art (5) Funky lamps with exposed bulbs and wires in all shapes
#mymatsprep Day 3: Your Collections
Ok, I love Mini Prep and what you’re all posting on Instagram. I have found, to my delight, that many of my Make Art That Sells students are wacky, loveable, and eccentric. They are collectors. Today, I want you to photograph any collections you may have. What, you don’t collect anything, you say? Even a bunch of your pencils constitutes a collection. Here are some of my dolls. Photo by Lilla Rogers A collection is a grouping of like objects. That can be very broad. Consider your collections of shoes, purses, flower bulbs, candles, pencil cups, journals, bottles of inks. What I’m going for here is to get you to home in on your own personal style and taste. Take a look at your collection and reflect upon the following: Is there a particular color that seems to run through all your objects in the collection? Is your collection earthy
MATS Home Decor Student Showcase part 2 {June 2015 class}
We are so proud of our wonderful Make Art That Sells alumni and are pleased to showcase a 4 part series of gorgeous work that was produced in our first session of Creating Collections for Home Décor Here is part 2. *** Tracey English I picked the Glass design week as my favourite. It was the group of designs I was most happy with and also because I managed to sell them in the summer to a U.S Home wares company for development. How did the Home Décor class help you grow? The Course helped me to put groups of designs together under a common theme, it taught me about different possibilities that were available in the Home Decor Market, it also helped me work within the same colour palette over a number of weeks, something I wouldn’t of dreamt of doing before hand. What did you discover about yourself?
#mymatsprep Day 2: Lamp Shades
So the course you’re preparing for, is about home décor. Your mission today is to take a photo of one of the home décor products: lamp shades. Find them in your house/apartment, in the subway, in shops, in cafés, in restaurants… I’ll go first. Here are lampshades from my studio. Photo by Lilla Rogers Photo by Lilla Rogers Helen Dardik for BlueQ “Home Décor” means things that people buy to put in their homes including… Things you put on tables that are functional like: -Lamps -Lampshades -Candles -Flower pots and vases -Candlesticks -Trays -Table linens Things that add beauty to your space like: -Rugs -Decorator pillows -Little sculptures Larger items that store things like: -Dressers -Shelving -Canisters And on and on and on… We’re just going to look at lamps and lampshades today so that this Mini gets you looking at one type of home décor product without being overwhelming.
#mymatsprep Day 1: Color Hunt
Are you ready for #MyMATSPep? Lilla has cooked up a very special series of creative prompts, starting TODAY! It’s free, and it will offer you five mini challenges over the course of this week. Be sure to check out the MATS blog every day January 18-22 for your free daily challenges. *** To prepare for the upcoming MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor class, I want you to hunt down some color palettes—not by thinking about it but by simply taking some photos of what you see around you. So for this Mini Prep assignment, take photos of what you see on your desk or table. (You can cheat and not just use what’s on your desk or table. I’m just suggesting that to give you a starting point). Throw things together and see what kinds of colors that you juxtapose together. You may surprise yourself with some exciting palettes.
MATS Home Decor Student Showcase part 1 {June 2015 class}
We are so proud of our wonderful Make Art That Sells alumni and are pleased to showcase a 4 part series of gorgeous work that was produced in our first session of Creating Collections for Home Décor Sam Osborne “This is the overview piece that shows most of the items in the collection. It really showcases the breadth of materials and textures we were introduced to as well a the variety of my final designs and how they work together. I love the glass pendants and the wooden birds!” How did the Home Décor class help you grow? It taught me to believe in my own style, to experiment within that, have fun and trust that each new brief and material brings exciting, creative opportunities. What did you discover about yourself? That the more I put myself and the things that make me different into my work the better
Want a piece of the $60 Billion Home Decor industry?
What is home décor? It’s all the gorgeous and/or functional items in your house. It’s a booming market that needs tons of art, with over $60 billion in annual sales. Its massive growth is due in part to the popularity of home design TV shows, Pinterest, and Instagram, and stylish online retailers like One Kings Lane and Dot&Bo. Art directors NEED your great art! Image: Selection of products from Lilla Rogers Studio artists created for Margo Tantau The Lilla Rogers Studio regularly licenses work for these kinds of products to retailers on the leading edge of trend such as Land of Nod, Creative Co-op, Garnet Hill, TAG, and Crate&Barrel. Imagine YOUR art on these products. How do you get that gig? Our next live e-course, Make Art That Sells: Creating Collections for Home Décor starts January 25th and teaches you everything you need to know to create killer presentations with your
Video #5 Popular materials for home decor (5 part video series)
When you’re dreaming up your first home décor product, it’s important to consider the materials and substrates you’ll be working with. Today we’ll look at the qualities of different materials and how each might work as part of a collection. [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/128491065[/vimeo] If you have any problems viewing the video please click here. Download the transcript here. Fun challenge: Look at OneKingsLane.com or another favourite home décor site and find products in each of the substrate categories. See how many combine substrates, and how collections feature products made from several different materials. Share on social media: Answer the question “What is your favourite substrate/material for home décor products and why?” Include #matshomedecor @artthatsells in your answer. *** Want a piece of the $60 Billion Home Decor industry? What is home décor? It’s all the gorgeous and/or functional items in your house. It’s a booming market that needs tons of art, with