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See our FREE video series on Designing for Home Décor by creative director Margo Tantau!

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! To celebrate the start of our amazing LIVE new mini course, Home Décor PLUS, which starts September 30th, today we’re sharing our FREE video series, Designing for Home Décor. The video series is presented by Margo Tantau, co-teacher for both of our home décor courses, our new live mini course, Home Décor PLUS, and our in-depth self-paced course, Creating Collections for Home Décor. [As well as teaching for Make Art That Sells, Margo is currently head of product innovation at Studio M and previously has held creative leadership roles at Creative


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FREE download: what’s YOUR home décor style?

Get industry insight and invaluable tips from renowned art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau! (Products by artists represented by Lilla.) With just a couple of weeks to go until our fabulous LIVE home décor course, Home Décor PLUS, kicks off, today we’re sharing the syllabus for this fun new mini course, plus a cool quiz for you to start thinking about your own personal style and what your home décor collection would look like. Home Décor PLUS Live has a lovely relaxed pace that will help you create a gorgeous home décor piece in just three weeks that will broaden and strengthen your portfolio and help you launch or boost your brilliant home décor career. On the very first day of class, you’ll get a gorgeous industry-level trend board with beautiful images handpicked for you by art agent Lilla Rogers based on her vibe and


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See our students’ amazing home décor designs!

Art agent Lilla is so excited to start her brand new LIVE mini course, Home Décor PLUS, in just a few weeks, on September 30th! It’s an easy, fun and super accessible course that will fit into any schedule, and by the end of it you’ll have some gorgeous market-savvy art for your portfolio that will help you launch or boost your amazing home décor design career! Click here to read more about what’s in the course, including how it differs from our full length, in-depth self-paced Creating Collections for Home Décor course. Grab your spot here! You won’t want to miss this course – it’s our only LIVE home décor course, and we don’t know when we’ll be running it again!   #1 Art by Make Art That Sells student Anna Lindsten. As you’ll already know if you follow our stunning Instagram feed, we love showing off the work


buildyourportfolio Make Art That Sells Want to know how to break into the lucrative home décor market in just three weeks?

Want to know how to break into the lucrative home décor market in just three weeks?

From dreamy bedlinen to cute ceramics to beautiful decorations that will add the finishing touch to any room, home décor is a wonderful and exciting market for your art – and it can be a very profitable one too! Would you like to dip your toe in the thrilling world of home décor to see if it’s for you? Do you want to create stunning portfolio pieces that will broaden and strengthen your portfolio and help you snag work for clients like Anthropologie? Have you already taken our in-depth Creating Collections for Home Décor course and are hungry for more? Do you crave the inspiration and motivation of LIVE classes, and making art surrounded by a huge supportive network of like-minded creatives? … then our brand new LIVE mini course, Home Décor PLUS is for you! In just three weeks, you’ll crank out a kick-ass on-trend job-snagging portfolio piece to


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Let all your home décor dreams come true!

Do you dream of seeing your art on beautiful home décor products?   Imagine seeing your stunning ceramics in a glossy interiors magazine … Imagine being in a high end shop and hearing someone exclaim over your gorgeous bedlinen … Imagine a whole home décor line with your name on it!  If home décor is your bag then we have some exciting things coming up for you!  First up, we’ve just announced the LIVE art review for our instantly downloadable Creating Collections for Home Décor (CCHD) course. This is an amazing opportunity to get your beautiful art in front of top art agent Lilla Rogers and renowned creative director Margo Tantau!  Sign up NOW to be a part of the excitement! The assignment will be issued on August 1st with a deadline of August 10th, so sign up now so you’ll be first to hear when the assignment is announced!  Work done by Lilla’s artist Zoe Ingrams in class: Lilla took her on shortly after she did this piece. Click here to read


Get a FREE sneak peek into our Creating Collections for Home Décor e-course

Do you dream of having your own home décor collection? Imagine dropping round to a friend’s house for coffee and finding that she’s got mugs that you designed … Or imagine seeing your stunning art on beautiful cushions and throws in a shop and hearing customers exclaim over how lovely they are … Or imagine your fabulous china being picked up and featured in a glossy style magazine. How would that feel?  Work done in class by Lilla’s artist Katie Vernon  Feeling inspired? Our wonderful indepth ecourse, Creating Collections for Home Décor, is self-paced, so you can start right NOW! Created by top art agent Lilla Rogers and trend queen creative director Margo Tantau, it will help you build a professional, market-savvy and downright kickass pitch presentation featuring five of the most popular materials used in home décor. Plus you can currently save 20% on both Creating Collections for Home Décor and our brand new LIVE course, Home Décor Plus,


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The courses you’ve been asking for: brand new MATS courses launching in 2019! Plus find out how to snag your place – with a big discount!

We are thrilled to announce that, due to popular demand from art agent Lilla’s students all over the world, we’ve decided to launch three brand new courses in 2019, and we hope you’ll love them just as much as we do! Drum roll please! Our new courses are … Editorial Live Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS Home Décor PLUS Did you guess right?! Read on to find out more about these fabulous new class formats … Lilla Rogers is not only renowned art agent but has many years’ experience as a top illustrator. In this course she’ll be sharing her wisdom, expertise and top tips from her decades-long editorial and agenting career working for top clients such as Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Magazine, the Grammies, the New York Times, top ad agencies, Chronicle Books and hundreds more. Imagine working in the fun and lucrative editorial market! In this four-week live


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Imagine getting your own Home Décor collection with Anthropologie

Nature wants things to grow and blossom. That’s what YOU’RE meant to do, too. I want you to be the very, very best you can be. Like a plant, you need the right environment and nurturing. You will get that in Creating Collections for Home Décor. In addition to all the goodness we’ve packed into this popular self-paced e-course, there’s a very supportive private online community to connect & share with other artists all over the world. Creating Collections for Home Décor provides the skills and knowledge to teach you everything you need to know about the lucrative home décor market – how to conceptualize and pitch full product collections. By showing art directors that you can do this, you put yourself ahead of the game, and stand out from other artists as a commercial professional. Not only are they more likely to buy your work, they are likely to buy MORE


Happy Birthday Lilla Rogers! And a sneak peek of some of the artists birthday cards

Earlier this month we celebrated our fabulous co-founder Lilla Rogers’s birthday! It has almost become an annual tradition for Lilla’s artists to create personal birthday cards for her. This year they’re absolutely gorgeous & we thought it would be nice to share some of them with you. See for yourself! CLAIRICE GIFFORD  HELEN DARDIK  MARA PENNY  REBECCA JONES  TERRI FRY KASUBA  Want to learn more about the greeting card and gift markets? Lilla can teach you all you need to know about getting your art on products in these markets! Find out more about our popular self-paced MATS A and MATS B courses & what you can learn about greeting cards & stationery or the gift market now! We hope you enjoyed the gorgeous creative cards as much as Lilla did. Happy Birthday Lilla! The MATS Team xxx


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Last day to sign up! The quality of a course can be measured by the quality of the work that comes out of it.

  Join us for five weeks of exciting and fresh art instruction by top agent Lilla Rogers and Art Director Margo Tantau. Registration will be closing TODAY at 11.59pm PT, so hurry! Join us here.   The quality of a course can be measured by the quality of the work that comes out of it. “The Home Décor class helped me grow as an artist because it opened my eyes to all the possible applications of art on products. I felt free to explore my painterly style without fear. I discovered that people respond to the looseness of paint, which was a bit of a relief, to be honest!” – SHARON MONTGOMERY   “The course is so valuable even just for the amazing and supportive facebook community – it is such a lovely, safe and supportive place to ask each other questions, share knowledge, and just be generally supportive and uplifting. The ability to