Write your picture book!

  Lilla’s innovative picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, is back as a LIVE course in 2026! Find out more and sign up here.

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Top 10 tips for Instagram for artists

Top 10 tips for Instagram for artists Art directors (and agents!) are increasingly finding fresh work and discovering new artists via Instagram, as well as using it to look for artists to commission for jobs. Showing your art can be a fantastic way to get noticed, build a following, and land paying illustration jobs. The Make Art That Sells Instagram feed shows off tons of gorgeous student artwork, plus it’s a fab place to hear about our sales, freebies and giveaways – give us a follow! It’s an easy interface to work with, and anyone can do it. Here are 10 top tips and pointers from the Make Art That Sells team: 1. Make sure people can find you! Consider using your or your studio’s name as your Instagram account name. If your Instagram is very different from your name, think about including both when signing your work to make

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Have you signed up for our FREE art history course?

February is Black History Month in the USA, and to mark it we wanted to invite you to join our FREE art history course, Redrawing Black History, with top art agent Lilla Rogers and illustrator and educator Tamisha Anthony. Redrawing Black History is a visually rich, fascinating course. Sign up for FREE now. Redrawing Black History is a fascinating and visually rich online course that covers four iconic eras in Black American history. It’s self-paced, which means you can dive in whenever you want and complete it at a pace to suit you, and will help you broaden and strengthen your illustration portfolio while learning more about some less well-known but incredibly important areas of American history. Tamisha says: “Redrawing Black History is a great way to get a snapshot of Black history, to see the creativity and resilience of African Americans, their incredible artistry in creating something out of

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LAST CHANCE to design your home décor collection!

LAST CHANCE – registration for Creating Collections for Home Décor closes TODAY and we don’t know when we’ll run this course as a LIVE class again! Do you adore home décor? Do you dream of seeing your beautiful art on fabric, ceramics and more? Do you want to know how to get your art on home decor products for stores like Anthropologie and West Elm? Then hurry HURRY! Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, will give you incredible in-depth insight into five key substrates – fabric, wood, ceramics, glass and metal – and, uniquely, will teach you how to create home décor collections, so you can sell more art to each client – but registration for this game-changing LIVE class closes TODAY. Art by Make Art That Sells student Claire Westwood for Creating Collections for Home Décor. Design your own stunning home décor collection with brand NEW

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Class starts TODAY! Get your FREE video taster!

Class starts TODAY! Get your FREE video taster! Hurry hurry HURRY – Creating Collections for Home Décor starts TODAY and there’s still time to sign up! You’ll get five weeks of incredible teaching from top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen and creative director Margo Tantau that will help you put together your own stunning ready-to-send pitch presentation, plus you’ll get access to four brand NEW gorgeous trend boards, and loads more supporting content. Imagine walking into your favorite store, maybe Anthropologie or West Elm or a charming neighbourhood boutique, and seeing your beautiful unique art on a line of products. Can you see it on plates, pillows, rugs, tea towels and more? How do you get that gig? Let top art agent Lilla Rogers and creative director Margo Tantau show you how! Still not sure whether Creating Collections for Home Décor is for you? Today we’re sharing the

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Replay of Live with Lilla Rogers and Margo Tantau: Creating Collections for Home Décor (February 2023)

Get started with illustrating for home décor Creating Collections for Home Décor is back as a LIVE course in 2023 by popular demand! Hurry HURRY – class starts THIS MONDAY, February 13th, but there’s still time to sign up here.   You can enjoy all this: LIVE weekly reviews with your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau Weekly deadlines to keep you accountable, motivated and on track Brand NEW market-savvy trend boards to inspire you A fantastic group of creatives from all over the world to share your journey with and learn alongside … and more! Create ready-to-send home décor pitches Every week for five weeks, you’ll explore one of the five main substrates for home décor design: metal, fabric, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. By the end of the course, you will have a complete collection of home décor products, ready to send to companies

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Win a FREE place in the Zoom TODAY plus final FREE assignment inside

Lilla here. I can’t wait for you to join me in class! Creating Collections for Home Décor LIVE starts THIS Monday, February 13th, and I sure hope that you’re as excited as I am! First up, don’t forget to join me and my fabulous Creating Collections for Home Décor co-teacher, Margo Tantau, for a FREE live Zoom event TODAY, Friday, February 10th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT! We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, answering your questions about the course and anything else you want to ask us from our decades in the industry, and popping a volunteer up onto the screen so we can chat to them directly. Plus we’ll be giving away a FREE place in class to one lucky viewer (if you’ve already signed up then you can swap it for a different Make Art That Sells course or gift it to a friend)! Don’t miss it!

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FREE assignment: Let’s explore your kooky personality

Lilla here. I’m excited to share Part 4 of this #MATSprep warm up exercise I’ve created for you ahead of my course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, which starts NEXT MONDAY, February 13th. You can catch up on the previous parts here if you missed them, or just dive straight in. If you haven’t signed up for Creating Collections for Home Décor yet, there’s still time! You’ll spend an incredible five weeks with me and my fantastic co-teacher, creative director and trend queen Margo Tantau, learning everything you need to know to create and license products for the lucrative home décor market. You’ll create some stunning art and learn how to present your designs as collections, making them more appealing to clients. The course is packed with information from our decades in the industry – don’t miss it! Sign up now. In Part 3 of this free #MATSprep, we started

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FREE assignment (Part 3): Discover your home decor style 👀

Discover your home decor style Lilla here. Over the past week, I’ve been sharing a playful warm up assignment I created for you ahead of my online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. In this unique class, my brilliant co-teacher, creative director Margo Tantau, and I show you how you can get a slice of the hugely lucrative home décor design pie (globally, the home décor market is estimated to reach a whopping $838.6 billion by 2027!). Every week for five weeks, you’ll explore one of the most popular substrates for home décor: metal, fabric, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. You’ll get five Mini exercises and five professional-level Main assignments – one for each substrate – and by the end of the course, you’ll have a stunning, on-trend collection of home décor products, ready to send to clients and presented in a way that will bring a tear to an art

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FREE assignment: Explore the most popular substrate for home décor!

Lilla here. Today I’m sharing Part 2 of the five part #MATSprep assignment I’ve created for you to help you get warmed up for my Creating Collections for Home Décor class. If you missed Part 1 then catch up here. Creating Collections for Home Décor is a unique online course that will not only show you how you can use your art to design a gorgeous home décor line, but will also show you how to present it as a collection, in a way that clients, creative directors and manufacturers understand – so not only are they more likely to buy your art, but they are also more likely to buy more of it. Art by Meera Lee Patel for Creating Collections for Home Décor. Learn how to design for this lucrative market and how to present your art as collections so you sell more to each client. Sign up

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FREE assignment: Get started with illustrating for home décor

Get started with illustrating for home décor Creating Collections for Home Décor is back as a LIVE course in 2023 by popular demand! That means you can enjoy all this: LIVE weekly reviews with your brilliant teachers, top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau Weekly deadlines to keep you accountable, motivated and on track Brand NEW market-savvy trend boards to inspire you A fantastic group of creatives from all over the world to share your journey with and learn alongside … and more! Create ready-to-send home décor pitches Every week for five weeks, you’ll explore one of the five main substrates for home décor design: metal, fabric, glass, ceramics and wood/MDF. By the end of the course, you will have a complete collection of home décor products, ready to send to companies like West Elm, Anthropologie and Target. Plus, crucially, this unique course teaches you