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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Lilla’s expert advice on managing creative overwhelm and building your confidence

Lilla often gets great questions from MATS students creating artwork that sells, and some of the common challenges they face in building their creative careers. One question she is often asked is about confidence, so we decided to share her useful insights with our readers in the hopes that others might find her advice useful as well. A MATS student writes: Lilla, I often have times when I feel confident about my art, and totally believe that I can do this. No doubt about it. I was a graphic designer before I had my children (trained in the days when I had to do it all by hand!) but my love of drawing pushed me to want to do more. I had no training in actual art as I went straight from school to graphics, but have drawn f o r e v e r! When I start on these courses

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How to embrace your messy, beautiful, perfectly imperfect creative life

How do you fancy joining MATS co-founders Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton for a very special webinar, exploring how to embrace your messy, beautiful, perfectly imperfect creative life? To celebrate the launch of Beth’s gorgeous new book ‘Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life’, Lilla and Beth are going to be diving deep in an exclusive LIVE webinar called “How to embrace your messy, beautiful, perfectly imperfect creative life”. They will be exploring: Comparison Acceptance Dealing with rejection Staying in your own lane Finding beauty in your life right now Want to join? This exclusive webinar is available to anyone who pre-orders a copy of Beth’s book before its release on Thursday August 30, 2018. To get access, just follow these three simple steps: Pre-order ‘Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life’, from Amazon or any other retailer or independent bookstore (*If you are in the US or Canada

GTS green Make Art That Sells Announcing the 2018 global talent search winner(s)!

Announcing the 2018 global talent search winner(s)!

What an incredible field of talent! The level of mastery and beauty made the decision incredibly exciting yet super challenging. We are grateful to our impressive panel of VIP judges who narrowed down the field from 50 semi-finalists to six, from which we were then tasked with selecting a winner. We loved seeing the work for the final assignment, which was to illustrate a short section of one of three texts to create a double-page picture book spread. After hours of discussion and deliberation here at the Studio, including reviewing the entire body of work of each artist, we are delighted to reveal the winner of our international search for our next artist, our Global Talent Search! Based on mastery of work and originality of style, we are delighted to announce that the winner of our Global Talent Search, and next represented artist, Kendra Binney!  (Scroll down for more BIG news!)   Kendra Binney, Portland, Oregon I’ve been following Kendra since we discovered her work in my Make Art That Sells courses four years ago where she

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LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR MATS MBA!

Hurry! Today is your last chance to join us  for three weeks of blasting your creative career to the next level with badass female entrepreneurs Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton. Registration closes TODAY at 11.59pm PDT, so hurry! Join us here.   Sign up today and blast your way to success with MATS MBA! In this super inspiring, fun and practical three-week course in creative business, you’ll learn: Beth & Lilla’s top 10 tips for radical career success How to monetize what makes you $pecial—why people will pay for your unique brand (and yes, you have one!) How to fall in love with your business and wake up every day rarin’ to go (whether you are starting out or want to go to the next level with your creative business) How to promote yourself in a way that you actually enjoy—that fits your personality type—and yet is proven to draw clients to you

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BRAND-NEW COURSE ON CREATIVE BUSINESS CO-TAUGHT BY BADASS ENTREPRENEURS LILLA ROGERS & BETH KEMPTON: MATS MBA (MONEY BADASS)! SIGN UP NOW! CLASS BEGINS NEXT WEEK!

Picture yourself waking up every morning excited about your career. Imagine what it would feel like to make a great living from your creativity. Imagine that you’ve got great systems that you actually enjoy using that relieve stress, that you know exactly what your goals are and that you have a user-friendly action plan to achieve said goals. How great would that be? My philosophy on business So many of my students have repeatedly asked me for a course on the business side of things, and so now, for the first time ever, I’m offering my brand-new course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss), along with my hero and co-founder of Make Art That Sells, Beth Kempton. This course will teach you everything you need to know so that you thrive. Is this course for you? Do you want to start a creative business, or make your current one more fun and even

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By popular demand! Our new e-course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss) kicks off this month!

Our brand-new exciting e-course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss) is beginning very soon! This is not a gross, boring, drab business course. This course is about taking your passions and making money in the same cool way that you make your art (or craft or teaching or whatever!) Never before have creative careers been more fun and lucrative and we help you get there. How do you like to do business success?   Wouldn’t you love to make your creative career even more profitable and more joyful? Whether you are just starting out, or ready to go to the next level, in our newest course, you’ll learn the secrets of success from me, art agent and serial creative entrepreneur, and my award-winning entrepreneur business partner and author, Beth Kempton. Each of us has created international brands and flourishing businesses with millions of dollars in revenue and clients all over the world. In creating this three-week step-by-step course, we dug deep and gathered up tons of our very best knowledge and

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Take your passions and make money in the same cool way that you make your art.

Imagine getting to step inside the minds of badass entrepreneurs Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton to learn everything they know to help you get yourself where you want to be. They’ve created a powerful new course which begins August 13th!  Registration is now open! MATS MBA (Money BadAss) is an energetic and motivating combination of 20 video lessons, weekly Facebook Live teachings and class case studies, and a buzzing community to help you succeed with the money side of your business. Lilla Rogers, top art agent, and Beth Kempton, award-winning entrepreneur, during filming of the MBA course  From eliminating money blocks to dealing with money practicalities, from opening your mind to the myriad ways you can generate money to helping you fall back in love with your business, this course will transform the way you think about, earn and manage money. An in-depth supporting ‘Playbook’ takes you step-by-step through creating a game plan for lucrative success

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We’re hiring! Join the MATS team as our Social Media Marketing Officer (maternity cover)

We’re hiring! Are you looking for an inspiring role that will allow you to help creative people succeed in the art industry? Are you a brilliant communicator, who loves social media and writing for online platforms and newsletters? Are you positive, self-motivated, service-minded and super-organized? Would you like a flexible role in a friendly team, based out of the UK but internationally connected? If so, you might just be the Make Art That Sells (MATS) Social Media Marketing Officer we are looking for! This is a fixed term part-time (three or four days per week) contract for maternity cover from September 2018 – June 2019. The hours are super flexible, the team is lovely and the community is amazing! This is a rare opportunity to be part of Make Art That Sells (MATS), one of the world’s leading online educational experiences for artists wanting to make their work more commercially

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ANNOUNCING THE GTS SEMI-FINALISTS! Help us choose our next artist!

The submissions for our 2018 Global Talent Search were absolutely top-notch. I’m thrilled to announce the 50 semi-finalists and you can now see them here. One of them WILL become the next top artist for my art agency to represent. The fifty semi-finalists are from all over the world: Americas – 52% Australasia – 12% Europe – 36% The grand prize winner lands representation with Lilla Rogers Studio, a boatload of consultations with some of our favorite companies, a round-trip ticket (from anywhere in the world!) to Boston, USA, for my Annual Artists & VIPs’ Retreat, and more! Our previous GTS winners are consistently booked with work! Want to find out how I selected these top 50? Read on! I created a series of three assignments which increase in difficulty. The first assignment was very broad, enabling each artist to show off their style. At minimum, it’s is an opportunity