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Posted on May 1, 2015.

What makes a great Home Décor Collection and start sketching your own!

This is a guest blog post by Margo Tantau, VP of Creative at MidwestCBK Margo has co-written our brand new course, MATS: Creating Collections for Home Décor, with Lilla Rogers. She will also be speaking at MATS: The Global Art Gathering, our LIVE event in Brighton UK this June. Home Décor as a rule, needs designs that can be LIVED with. I won’t be cliché and say “ageless and timeless”, but I will say, think about what the subject matter is, what kind of a home it might be going in, as well as what would potentially sell most broadly. Think of all the varieties of style that you see on the market, on Pinterest and in magazines. Designs that are sophisticated, clean, lovely, graphic, floral… these are all relevant to Home Décor. Collections need to go well together, and equally and strongly should stand on their own. Designing these

Posted on April 29, 2015.

April Bootcamp Gallery is Live!

The April gallery from our Make Art That Sells: Assignment Bootcamp class is now live! You can view it here: This month, we challenged our students to design a poster for our exciting Global Art Gathering taking place in Brighton, UK in June. The gallery features nearly 300 pieces of original art submitted as part of this live brief. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE APRIL GALLERY! There was so much fabulous work submitted in response to this brief, and we love the ongoing supportive energy in the Bootcamp community. What a generous, talented group of artists they are! Our next Bootcamp will be running in 2016, read more and jump on the waiting list here. *** Have you heard about 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

Posted on April 27, 2015.

How to leverage your existing artwork for the home décor market

Image credit: West Elm Is your mind buzzing with ideas about what your very own home décor line could look like? It’s not an impossible dream if only you have the right tools and knowledge at your fingertips. In fact, you are probably already half way there! Look through your archives and find the following: Your favorite color palettes Your favorite icons and motifs Your favorite prints and patterns Now it’s time to do some virtual shopping (or real shopping if you like!) – do one of the following this week: Take a field trip to your favorite shop (either in person or online) Study com, apartmenttherapy.com, or designsponge.com Look at the website of a home décor trade show like Maison et Objet in Paris. See who exhibits, and check out their websites to see what products they offer. (And if you’re really serious about this, why not start planning

Posted on April 22, 2015.

Are you ready to design a home décor line?

Image credit: Jonathan Adler One of the things I love about sharing my years of industry experience, is helping artists build their confidence. One way I do this is by answering questions (and I get asked a lot!) Some subjects come up over and over. One of them is readiness. Today I want to answer a very specific version of that question I was asked recently : “How do you know if you are ready to design a home décor line?” Home décor is one of those dream markets for many artists. There are a host of fabulous clients out there, it can be very lucrative, and it can be incredibly rewarding to see your work on anything from tiny decorations to enormous pieces of furniture. The additional income generated by a vast collection of home décor products is a dream come true for many artists, and how awesome to

Posted on September 19, 2014.

FLASH SALE!

We were so thrilled that every single one of the six finalists for the 2014 Global Talent Search – picked independently by the judges and general public – were graduates of the Make Art That Sells course. To celebrate and give even more artists the opportunity to learn how to make their work more commercially viable, we are having a flash sale! If you sign up for Make Art That Sells A + B by Friday September 27 2014 you will get the Bootcamp 2015 class for free! See HERE for more details and register now.

Posted on May 27, 2014.

May Bootcamp Gallery now live!

The third gallery from our hot new course Make Art That Sells: Assignment Bootcamp is now live! You can view it here: The gallery features over hundreds of pieces of original art inspired by the May class assignment… an editorial illustration for an article on meditation.

Posted on March 29, 2014.

Just a girl and her brush…

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/80334792[/vimeo] Take a moment out of your day to watch this gorgeous video by MATS course graduate Wendy Brightbill (aka A Girl and Her Brush). Although Make Art That Sells is packed with the insider knowledge that only comes from Lilla’s three decades’ of experience in the business, it’s amazing the most powerful thing people come away with is actually nothing to do with money or selling at all. But what they learn is what will lead them to making more art that ultimately does sell. Have a look for yourself…

Posted on March 26, 2014.

Does ‘Make Art That Sells’ actually work? Yes. Here’s the proof.

So does ‘Make Art That Sells’ actually work? Do artists who take the class actually sell more art? Well yes, they do. We asked class participants for examples of their successes since taking the course, and were staggered by the response, bearing in mind that some people only took the course 4-5 months ago. Students have since secured licensing deals in the gift, editorial, baby apparel, bolt fabric, wall art, greetings, home décor, paper and fashion markets, many have won competitions and a number have been signed for representation.

Posted on January 16, 2014.

Trina Dalziel reflects on going back to school with “Make Art That Sells” ecourses

I’ve been freelancing for over seventeen years and I’ve also taught on several Illustration Degree courses – but going back to “school” this year has been a delight for me. These projects are my responses to Lilla’s amazing online course, “Make Art That Sells”, aimed at professional illustrators and designers worldwide.