We want to give a big giant shout out to everyone who entered the GTS this year. The competition was fierce! So many of you went on to get commissions and agents from the exposure, and we are delighted for your successes! Those that keep at it, and grow their work, will succeed. That’s the simple formula. We are so delighted that Kendra Binney was the grand prize winner. And the exciting part was that the work was so outstanding that Lilla and her studio ladies couldn’t resist taking on ALL SIX of the finalists! Interesting fact: The judges’ six finalists’ picks were all MATS students! MATS works! Meet all six of Lilla’s newest artists 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 stood out with her dreamy, magical style for a wall art assignment. While we know that she is capable of gorgeous
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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
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
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
LAST CHANCE TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY TO WIN $500 WORTH OF MATS COURSES !
It’s our 5-year anniversary! To celebrate, MATS co-founders Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton had a virtual birthday party yesterday on Facebook Live with lots of MATS students and followers. As we had some technical issues with Facebook Live (we are pretty sure MATS broke the internet!), we decided to change the giveaways slightly to give our lovely students and followers a fair chance to win some of our fabulous prizes. The grand prize: $500 voucher towards ANY MATS COURSES and a free place on our newest e-course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss) Other prizes: 6 free places on our newest e-course, MATS MBA (Money BadAss) To enter (if you haven’t already), simply go to our public Facebook Page and watch the replay of yesterday’s virtual birthday party video, add your guess to Lilla & Beth’s giveaway question for the remaining prizes in the video comments, and don’t forget to include #MATSMBA with your guess. All guesses must be submitted before 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT/ 6pm BST on July 3rd to be considered for the prizes. The winners will be selected at random after the deadline and will be announced on Wednesday, July 4th on
Get ready for our giant birthday party giveaway! Thousands of dollars worth of prizes!
Mark your calendars for this Monday, July 2nd at 11.30am EDT/ 4.30pm BST for a Facebook LIVE to win great prizes on the Make Art That Sells Facebook Page! Join Lilla Rogers and Beth Kempton for lots of fun, games, and free course giveaways (over $5000 of prizes to be given away!) Here’s a sneak peak of one of the tote bag bundles we’re giving away. My Body illustrated by Rebecca Jones. Random Illustrated Facts illustrated by Mike Lowery Win our tote bags full of fun products! See you on Monday! Lilla and Beth
Your free 2018 GLOBAL TALENT SEARCH (GTS) PREP: DAY THREE!
Are you enjoying the GTS Prep? Here is Day Three of our free GTS Prep. We are so excited to launch our 5th Global Talent Search (GTS) which begins June 25th! Join the fun with our free prep—three days of mini assignments to get you warmed up for the first GTS assignment. Each of these is like a little hint, too. Here’s your third and final GTS Prep mini: Draw some sea anemones! How cool are they? Seriously, to my eye they are hilarious and gorgeous at the same time. The purpose of this is to invite you to draw organic shapes. TIP: Think about shading, as that will help you define the form (the roundness). You will want to have a little practice with this for when you get your first GTS assignment. Feel free to make up your own anemones if you like! Any style works here. You can
Get your 2018 GLOBAL TALENT SEARCH (GTS) PREP: DAY TWO
Yay! Today is Day Two of our free GTS Prep. We are so excited to launch our 5th Global Talent Search (GTS) which begins June 25th! Join in on the fun with our free prep—three days of mini assignments to get you warmed up and prepared for the first GTS assignment. Each of these is like a little hint, too. Here’s your second mini assignment: Draw the following letters: A, G, and J. Do them in any style and medium you like. Have fun with them. Remember, letterforms are simply shapes. TIP: Experiment and play with the letterform. Just be sure that it’s clear what the letter is. Here’s a little inspiration board I created to give you ideas: TIPS: –Look at the thins and thicknesses of each letter, especially on the letter “A”. –Note the serifs. Are they pointy? Rounded? Bell-bottomed? –Is the overall shape chubby? Lean? Wide? –Check out the dots
Get your 1st free download for the GTS prep!
It’s time for our GTS Prep! We are so excited to launch our 5th Global Talent Search (GTS) which begins June 25th! Join in on the fun with my free prep—three days of mini assignments to get you warmed up and prepared for the first GTS assignment. Each of these is like a little hint, too. First up is “Let’s Make a Color”. Download this worksheet and paint right on it, or simply follow the instructions on a nice piece of paper. Use any medium you want. I am always encouraging you to use neutrals in your art, and to ‘shop’ for new colors to add to your repertoire. This playful worksheet should help you do just that. In the actual GTS assignment, you are going to be asked to use one of my favorite neutrals, so this is a warm up for that. (Can you guess the name of one of my favorite neutrals?)
Reading the tea leaves! See the varied approaches to the same assignment.
One of my favorite things about teaching MATS classes is being amazed at what my students do with the assignments I give them. I get to see all the beautiful work they make. Plus, I especially love to watch the growth of the students over time. In February, I gave our students an assignment to do a journal cover around the theme of reading tea leaves for our Assignment Bootcamp course. I give loads of visual inspiration, guidance, and advice, but then I encourage students to approach the assignment any way they like. Check out the diverse array of amazing work they did: Valerie Hamill Traci Sally Kelly LaPalme Rachael Grainger We’ve just released the March gallery from Assignment Bootcamp & you can take a look at even more gorgeous work by my students here. I can’t wait to see what else they create in the next months. Want to