Copy the sentences below into your journal and fill in the blanks. Feel free to illustrate your musings if you like. Once, I lived in a tree house because ______________________________________________. I furnished it with ____________________________________________________________. My tree house had a style you might call __________________________________________. My tree house looked like __________________________________________________. People would say this about me:_____________________________________________________. Why did I create this assignment for you? Because making art is about being a bit weird. Let your inner weird come out! (Want to know more about the importance of this? Check out my free video series on ‘Why what makes you weird makes your brand’ here. And think about furnishing a tree house with your products! Extra credit for drawing your tree house. I can’t wait to see what you do! Seriously, I’m falling a bit in love with you all. Lilla Xo Join the fun and show us your images
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New bonus videos for the Home Décor course!
We are thrilled to bring you some brilliant technical instruction videos in Photoshop from Corinna Buchholz of Piddix.com. These will be included as a bonus in MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor, and will show you how to: Make a tabletop presentation for licensing using an existing template Alter the background of your presentation to make your products stand out Rearrange the items on a pre-existing template to suit your needs Turn your own iphone product photos into blank templates to showcase your artwork If you haven’t yet booked your place, hurry up and book now as class starts on Monday! About Corinna: Artist and archivist Corinna Buchholz got her start on etsy, where she was one of the top 10 handmade sellers (out of over a million shops) for five years. Corinna’s vintage and historically inspired images are in use on more than 10,000 products in retailers around the
Direct from AtlantaMart: 10 hot trends in Home Décor
It’s Reine Sloan from Lilla Rogers Studio here! I have just returned from the huge AtlantaMart 2016 trade show in Georgia, where I explored three skyscrapers (a total of 57 floors) of the freshest products and trends in Home Decor and Gifts. The sheer enormity of the show brings home just how huge an opportunity this is for artists, so I wanted to share 10 hot trends in home décor spotted at the show. THE TOP TEN (1) Vintage style clocks were popping up everywhere in all different shapes, colors and sizes. These were in the CBK showroom! (2) Lots of warm wood and nature elements complimented by a bit of fringe or girls accents (3) Plenty of golds and wallpapers with large motifs and bold design (4) Hand lettering with painterly words and expressions, particularly in wall art (5) Funky lamps with exposed bulbs and wires in all shapes
#mymatsprep Day 1: Color Hunt
Are you ready for #MyMATSPep? Lilla has cooked up a very special series of creative prompts, starting TODAY! It’s free, and it will offer you five mini challenges over the course of this week. Be sure to check out the MATS blog every day January 18-22 for your free daily challenges. *** To prepare for the upcoming MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor class, I want you to hunt down some color palettes—not by thinking about it but by simply taking some photos of what you see around you. So for this Mini Prep assignment, take photos of what you see on your desk or table. (You can cheat and not just use what’s on your desk or table. I’m just suggesting that to give you a starting point). Throw things together and see what kinds of colors that you juxtapose together. You may surprise yourself with some exciting palettes.
Reason #1 of Ten Reasons to join MATS Creating Collections for Home Decor
“This course is teaching something desperately needed in the industry. It’s a gamechanger.” Margo Tantau, VP of Creative for MidwestCBK, responsible for the production of around 5000 new products each year MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor has been developed in collaboration with top art director Margo Tantau in response to something she saw lacking in the industry. Time after time talented artists were showing their portfolios to her, but only demonstrating what their work looks like in two dimensions, as flat art, such as patterns and illustrations. However, as someone responsible for producing 5000 products a year, Margo needed ideas for products, and felt that if artists could only show concepts in their portfolio, it would make them stand out because: She would know that they have great ideas that could be developed together She would immediately see the potential applications for their art on products She would know
The MATS sale is ON! Massive discounts on our courses this weekend only
“Yes, you can most certainly make a good living making art. But you need to get really good at your art. Passion plus putting in the time to make your work better and better is the secret. You need to be guided to make art in the most lucrative markets. That’s why I believe in the MATS courses as a tool to help you succeed.” – Lilla Rogers From now until next Monday (sales closes at 11.59pm PST) we are offering The Giant Art Bonanza sale. This is an unprecedented opportunity to invest in your art career in a systematic way over the next 9 months. What’s included in The Giant Art Bonanza Bundle: MATS CREATING COLLECTIONS FOR HOME DÉCOR LIVE COURSE (FIVE WEEKS, STARTS JAN 25, 2016) £399/approx. $600 value MATS ASSIGNMENT BOOTCAMP 2016 LIVE COURSE (FIVE MONTHS, STARTS MARCH 7, 2016] £99/approx. $150 value MATS A (now self-paced* so you can start
Shopping snippets – a Brighton round up!
When Lilla and Margo visited Brighton for MATS: The Global Art Gathering, it was inevitable that they were going to spend a lot of time shopping! This city is full of independent shops, galleries and cafes, and there is eye candy everywhere. They set themselves a challenge to find products in some of the main materials featured in our new course ‘MATS: Creating Collections for Home Decor‘ (which starts today), and we filmed the results! METAL [vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]https://vimeo.com/130906176[/vimeo] FABRIC [vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]https://vimeo.com/130906048[/vimeo] GLASS [vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]https://vimeo.com/130906946[/vimeo] CERAMICS [vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]https://vimeo.com/130906174[/vimeo] WOOD [vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]https://vimeo.com/130906477[/vimeo] *Please note the piece in this video credited to Sally Welchman is actually by Liz Toole. Apologies for the error. Fun, hey! If you’d like to explore these five substrates in depth, and learn how to design for them, so you can build an enticing collection for home decor, then hurry and book your place
Everything you need to know about home décor: a round-up
Here’s a quick round up of the 12 top reasons why Make Art That Sells: Creating Collections for Home Décor will be a huge boost to your career: Weekly in-depth video training on how to design for a specific material, popularly used in the lucrative home décor market, including METAL, CERAMICS, FABRIC, GLASS and WOOD/MDF. Five professional-level creative assignments which culminate in the creation of an outstanding, commercially-viable and very current presentation of a full home décor collection. Your assignments will be inspired trend boards provided in the course to ensure that the work you produce is on trend or ahead of trend. Each week in class we share an interview with someone who is rocking the home décor industry, and has valuable industry insight to share with you. The course is packed full of resources you can’t get anywhere else. The private online classroom is accessible 24/7 from anywhere
How Alumni Laurence Lavallee found her Flow again after taking MATS A
We love this video from MATS Alumni Laurence Lavallee aka ‘Flo’. Laurence describes her experience of taking the MATS A course through the life of a little bird who was lost before she found ‘Make Art That Sells‘ and a community of wonderful designers. Laurence submitted this as part of our class competition and won a free spot in MATS B starting in October. *** Would you like to find your design path and a wonderful community to travel along with? Our brand new class ‘Creating Collections for Home Decor‘ teaches you how to create collections for home décor and present it in a winning pitch! So start thinking about what kind of products you might like to see your work on. Class starts on Monday 22 June and runs for 5 weeks. Registration is open here
Manifesto Monday part 9
Welcome to Manifesto Monday, where we share some of the Manifesto artwork submitted by our Make Art That Sells Alumni. Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, so please put yourself on the waiting list to be one of the first to hear, when registration opens. *** Chloé CRES Catherine Chalmers Joanne Cocker Julie Cossette Emily Cromwell Tara Daavettila *** MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor is open for registration! Join Margo and Lilla this summer to learn about how to create winning presentations that will make you and your art stand out. SPECIAL OFFER! Register for MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor before May 6 (midnight GMT) and get a complementary place on Lilla Rogers’ Global Talent Search later this year (worth £25 / assignments are sent out on August 14)! REGISTER HERE before May 6, 2015!