Did you see our recent blog where our video testimonial competition winner, Sam Rudd, told us all about why she loves Assignment Bootcamp? See her video below Sam Rudd’s prize winning entry to our video testimonial competition focused on her love for Assignment Bootcamp. Want in? HURRY! Registration for 2019 closes today! What is Assignment Bootcamp, and why is it so brilliant? In brief, it’s weekly treat direct from a top art agent that will inspire you, motivate you, and help you to fill your portfolio with beautiful on-trend client-grabbing art – all for the price of a weekly latte! Find out more here – but HURRY! Registration for Bootcamp 2019 closes TODAY! Bootcamp 2018 work from MATS student Olivia Gibbs. Fill your portfolio with beautiful market-savvy client-grabbing art! Sam wasn’t the only one who loved Bootcamp! Here’s just some of the feedback we received from Bootcamp 2018: The assignments were fun, challenging and so
Bootcamp 2019 #MATSPREP: Day Two
Welcome to Day 2 of your Assignment Bootcamp 2019 #MATSprep! If you missed Day 1, there’s still time to join in: find it here Gorgeous color is so key in getting you work, and today I have a fantastic way for you to come up with a fresh color palette! Let’s face it. We all tend to rely on our same colors, and with this download I’m pushing you to break out. Give it a try, and I encourage you to use colors you don’t normally. Lilla’s tip no. 1: I have found that artists often use only bright colors. I’m limiting it to only two so that you try other colors. If you’ve taken my courses, you know that I’m all about neutrals/muted colors, so for this I’m encouraging you to do 3 muted colors. One can be any kind you want, another is a light muted color, and the last is a dark muted color. (Just so you know, I’m using ‘muted’ and ‘neutrals’ interchangeably here.) Lilla’s tip no. 2: People tend to only use light
Bootcamp 2019 #MATSPREP: Day One
Welcome to Part 1 of your Assignment Bootcamp 2019 #MATSprep! Here’s your first of two FREE exercises to get prepared for our Assignment Bootcamp class What’s Assignment Bootcamp? Assignment Bootcamp is our four-month long e-course. It’s a great way to make four kickass portfolio pieces over four months that will help you snag great jobs, grow your art and learn in a fun, relaxed way, all for the same price as a weekly latte. Find five reasons you’ll love Bootcamp here. Be sure to share your work and use #MATSprep on Instagram so we can see what you do! For today’s #MATSprep we’re going to be focusing on color, because color is incredibly important in your work. I always emphasize how color is so key: it can absolutely make or break when getting a job from an art director. So in this #MATSprep I’m going to help you make a fabulous color palette. Today I want you to go around your house or apartment or studio and gather up
Hands up who wants four months of art to look forward to! Plus find out why deadlines are your friend
How would you like to get a little packet of awesome from a top art agent every Monday for four months for the same price as a weekly latte? What a wonderful thing to have to look forward to! Work from a previous round of Assignment Bootcamp by MATS student Frida Hammar. You’ll create hot new portfolio pieces in your unique style with fun, engaging prompts! Assignment Bootcamp is one of our most popular courses, and for good reason: it’s brilliant fun for everyone, from beginners to professional artists; you’ll make some really cool art which will get you great work; you get to find out about the newest trends and create gorgeous portfolio pieces which are bang up to date; and it’s completely motivating because of Lilla’s unique teaching style. Picture this. You’re making great art. You’re clear about your goals. You want to create a knockout portfolio piece
Five reasons you’ll love Assignment Bootcamp 2019!
Want to find the joy in your art-making? Assignment Bootcamp 2019 starts in less than two weeks! It’s one of our most popular courses, and for very good reason: it’s great fun, it’ll push you to make some fantastic art, and it costs about the same as a weekly latte! Read on for five reasons why you’ll love Bootcamp 2019. 1. It’ll keep you motivated 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 making your unique art alongside a whole bunch of other creative people. Suddenly
Drum roll please … Find out who won our huge video testimonial competition plus watch your gorgeous films!
At the end of last year we launched our massive video testimonial competition. We wanted to know all about what you loved about Make Art That Sells, the great work you’ve gotten, the friends you’ve met, and the courses that have blown your mind, and you didn’t disappoint. We were blown away by the standard of the entries that we received, and it was very hard to pick a winner, but a winner we must have, so we are delighted to announce that the winner of a place on My Year of Art LIVE plus an exclusive 1:1 with a teacher of her choice is …Sam Rudd Watch her film and the other videos we loved below. We also loved the following videos: Denise Ortakales Liz Munro Galia Luz Natalia Gonzalez Thanks so much to everyone who took part. You never fail to amaze us with your creativity, skill and
MATS MBA starts next week! See previous students’ support recipes and what they REALLY thought of the course
We are thrilled that the second round of our outstanding MATS MBA (Money BadAss) starts THIS MONDAY and we want you to join us! Imagine loving your work, making more money, and stressing less Imagine making a great living from your creativity and waking up every morning excited about your career Imagine that you’ve got brilliant systems in place that you actually enjoy using, so you know exactly what your goals are, and that you have a user-friendly action plan to achieve those goals How good would that feel? These are just some of the things which students in our previous MBA course told us that MBA had done for them! Anna Lindsten’s support recipe from our previous MATS MBA course. What support do you need, and how can you get it? Let Lilla and Beth help you figure it out! One thing we talk about on the course is support and how you can get it. Sometimes being an artist can be lonely (and one of the things our students mention a LOT is the wonderful
#MATSPREP DAY Three: Your 2019 CUP of dreams
You’ve written on each cup on your page, and learned some things about yourself. There’s something about working pictorially that may help you get clarity. I’m guessing that you’re probably a visual learner (duh!) and that by making a drawing, you may have made some discoveries about what you want for your future. Today, pick one of your favorite cups and make it a whole big picture. Add ‘2019’ to the page, and any other words or drawings you like! Maybe it’s simply the cup and ‘2019’ on a page. Maybe you are drinking from the cup, or mixing up a cake mix in the cup/bowl…draw a picture of the cup any way you like! “But Lilla”, you say, “How can I pick just one?” I’m literally smiling as I write this because I know, as a creative person, you have a million things you want to do. But for now, pick one and make it a page.
#MATSPREP DAY TWO: Your cup runneth over
Cups, containers, vases, mugs. Cat cup by Helen Dardik and blue floral travel mug by Carolyn Gavin There’s something really precious about cups. What do you think of cups? Did you enjoy drawing a page of cups? (Remember, they can be any kind of vessel. I’m just calling them cups for shorthand.) The guts of a career is the dream. The thing that will keep you motivated and passionate—through thick and thin—is if the work comes from your very special dream. What do we mean by a dream? A dream is a vision for your future that makes you happy. Yes, your career will evolve—that’s the fun of it—but for now, start where you are right now. In our MBA (Money BadAss) course, brilliant entrepreneurs Beth Kempton and Lilla Rogers will guide you to create your brand, your look, and to think about who you want to appeal to. This MATS Prep that you’re working on is my sneaky secret trick to help you prepare
#MATSPREP DAY ONE: draw a page of CUPS!
A few of my many cups, vases, bowls and containers. From left: Floral bowl by Carolyn Gavin; fox cup by Helen Dardik; rabbit cup by Zoe Ingram Never before in the history of the planet have there been so many opportunities for creative people! For the next three days, I’m going to help you prepare for our hugely successful course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss) which starts this Monday. In the MBA course, you’ll make your dreams a reality, and this 3-Day MATS Prep is going to help you get ready for that with this kinda magical exercise. Each day, you’ll build on the previous day, so be sure to dive in right now. I’d love to see what you do so be sure to share it on social media! #matsprep Today, I’d like you to draw cups! Yup, cups. Draw a page of 10 – 20 cups, vases, bowls, containers of varying sizes. Leave room to write words on the front of each vessel. You’ll learn more tomorrow. Here’s a really simple page