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Posted on March 16, 2020.

From our founders Lilla and Beth: A career-supporting gift for you in these tough times

How are you doing with all that is going on in the world? Together we are facing an unprecedented, challenging time. Everything is shifting, and many things are uncertain. In the face of this, we want you to know that the MATS community is here for you. Art can be a powerful force for good, a support for our collective mental health, and a way to stay connected with ourselves and each other. Make Art That Sells Founders: Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton We also know that now, more than ever, we need tools and innovation to allow us to imagine a new kind of future, where we can be creative in the way we generate money to support our families, pay the bills, and help keep our local communities thriving. That’s why we want to gift every single person in our community a free place on our online course

zoe ingram rabbit plate jug 1 1400x1088 1 Make Art That Sells Get your work in front of a top art agent: Lilla announces LIVE review for Creating Collections for Home Décor

Posted on March 12, 2020.

Get your work in front of a top art agent: Lilla announces LIVE review for Creating Collections for Home Décor

Do you adore home décor? Do you dream of seeing your beautiful art on fabric, ceramics and more in stores like Anthropologie? Our raved-about online course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, now in its fifth year, will give you incredible indepth 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. Like our other renowned courses, Hot Markets for Your Art Part A and Part B, Creating Collections for Home Décor is self-paced, meaning you can dive in right away and complete it at a time and pace to suit you. And, as a special bonus, once a year, to motivate and inspire you, Lilla sets a deadline for submission for an assignment from each course. She’ll then view all of the pieces submitted to the gallery

Posted on March 5, 2020.

FREE VIDEO: What does an art agent look for in a portfolio?

Did you hear the big news? Our surprise special guest for March Bootcamp is … Lisa Congdon! Fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering, and for sharing creative inspiration through her books, podcast recordings, Instagram feed and public speaking. She’s the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist, bestselling Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, and her latest book Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic. She has worked for clients around the world including Comme des Garçons, Crate and Barrel, Facebook, MoMA, REI, among many others. She was named one of 40 Women Over 40 in 2015 and is featured in the 2017 book, 200 Women Who Will Change the Way you See the World – and in case you can’t

Posted on March 2, 2020.

Time for class! Assignment Bootcamp starts today with a FREE Facebook Live event and a HUGE REVEAL!

GET READY TO LOVE MONDAYS! Our most popular course, Assignment Bootcamp 2020, starts TODAY: get a little packet of awesome from top art agent Lilla Rogers every Monday for the next 17 weeks that will add up to make some incredible art to stretch and strengthen your portfolio. What a great way to start the week! Today in class, for example, you’ll get these three fabulous worksheets: Tracing Shapes, which builds on the FREE #MATSprep we gave out a few weeks ago and goes further into exploring beautiful shapes and outlines Making Lines, a cool way to make marks Lilla’s hotly anticipated Color Combo of the Year, plus your very own Blobby Color Palette to fill in … which will all come together to help you create your final assignment next week, so, just like that, you’ve cranked out a gorgeous piece of art for your portfolio, ready to help

Posted on February 27, 2020.

Get your FREE Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep and art supply shopping list

Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts in less than a week, on Monday, March 2nd, and today as a warm up we’re giving you a little taster from class plus an art supply shopping list as your FREE #MATSprep! Yes, you read that right – part of your prep this time round is choosing some new art supplies! Lilla’s art from Assignment Bootcamp #MATSprep. What will the prep be? Find out more and download your copy below! What’s Assignment Bootcamp? It’s four glorious months of art-making in the company of an encouraging crowd of creatives from all over the world. You’ll get something from art agent Lilla every single Monday for four months – maybe a playful downloadable worksheet, a quirky mini assignment, a video or an interview with an industry expert – and by putting them all together you’ll make four kick-ass portfolio pieces (one per month) for four of the

Posted on February 20, 2020.

Five reasons why you NEED to sign up for Assignment Bootcamp

Want to find the joy in your art-making? Assignment Bootcamp 2020 starts on Monday, March 2nd! It’s one of our most popular courses, and for very good reason: it’s great fun, it’ll inspire you to make some fantastic art, and it costs about the same per week as a weekly latte! Read on for five reasons why you’ll love Bootcamp 2020. Reason #1: It’ll keep you motivated Lilla says: The best way to improve your art is to make more art. The more art you make, the better it will be, and the more interesting, exciting and lucrative your creative career will be. It can be hard to do on your own though. It’s overwhelming. You don’t know where to start. Perhaps it’s wintry and gray where you are and you’re not feeling all that inspired. Assignment Bootcamp will change all that! It gives you structure and accountability, because you’re

Posted on February 13, 2020.

REVEALED! Feast your eyes on the winners of our Make Art That Sells manifesto competition!

We recently ran a competition for our students and followers to sum up what Make Art That Sells means to them in the form of a visual manifesto. Art agent Lilla has looked at all the entries and picked out her favorites and the results are now in … Read on to see her winners and runners-up! We were, as ever, absolutely delighted (but not at all surprised) by the staggering level of the entries we received, and the huge variety in the way that you approached it. In fact, Lilla was so impressed with the level of entries that she chose not one but THREE winners, who each get a place on Assignment Bootcamp 2020, which starts Monday, March 2nd. About the prize: In Assignment Bootcamp, you get to make a stunning portfolio piece for a different market every month for four months, alongside hundreds of other creatives from

Posted on February 6, 2020.

Get assignments written especially for you by a top art agent!

Do you want to get exclusive assignments written especially for you by top art agent Lilla Rogers so you can supercharge your portfolio with fab market-savvy art? That’s exactly what you get in Assignment Bootcamp: four amazing assignments over four months to fill your portfolio with gorgeous art aimed at four of the hottest art markets right now. Fortune teller salt and pepper mill by student Petra Braun for Assignment Bootcamp 2019. Sometimes it’s hard to make art by yourself, isn’t it? You’re not sure what’s popular right now, what clients are looking for, what’s going to catch someone’s eye and land you great work. Art agent Lilla Rogers is here to help! Over four months you’ll make four brilliant bang-up-to-date portfolio pieces geared toward the hottest markets such as gift, children’s books, editorial (magazine illustration) or wall art, to name a few. The subject matter is fun and marketable,

Posted on January 23, 2020.

Why do students sign up for My Year of Art School? Read their stories

Do you want your 2020 to be full of creative goodness? Do you want to spend a year making your art better and better under the guidance of a top art agent? Book your place now! LAST CHANCE! Do you want to explore the exciting world of Editorial illustration, make a stunning piece for your portfolio, and learn tons of tips direct from Lilla Rogers, a former pro illustrator turned art agent? Then HURRY – you want to register for Editorial LIVE: Illustrating Magazines and More, which closes TODAY! Do you want to discover multiple art markets, build a showstopping portfolio and create better and better art in 2020? Then HURRY – you want to register for our brilliant live class bundle, My Year of Art School LIVE, which closes TODAY! Or do you want to light a fire under your illustration career this year with every single course we’re

Posted on January 20, 2020.

Editorial LIVE starts today: see our stunning student work

What won’t a top art agent and born educator do to motivate her students? As I write this, I’m listing to Lizzo’s hit song Good as Hell and harking back to our most recent Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More course, when we had an absolute blast, we got to hear art agent Lilla sing to us that she just took a DNA test and turns out she’s 100% that bitch, and our incredible students made some truly incredible art. Want in? Want to find out what Lilla has tucked up her sleeve this time? Editorial LIVE: Illustrating for Magazines and More, starts TODAY and there’s still time to sign up! Don’t forget, this is the only time that Editorial LIVE is on the calendar for 2020, so don’t miss out – grab your spot now! Student work from Editorial LIVE October 2019 by Zoë Ingram, a Make Art

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