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WHATS LILLA UP TO Make Art That Sells Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep Part 1

Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep Part 1

Get your FREE Home Décor #MATSprep: Lilla’s Patented 100% Scientifically Accurate* Magic Style Decoder! Discover more about your unique artistic style with art agent Lilla Roger’s FREE Magic Style Decoder!   Our brand-new Home Décor PLUS course begins on Monday, September 30th, so today, to get you ready for class, we’re giving away Lilla’s FREE MATS Prep. You’ll get part two – the results! – tomorrow, so you’ll definitely want to do this today! What’s a MATS Prep? It’s a fun free exercise to get prepared for class, or just to have some creative fun, and it’s a great way to see what Lilla’s playful, kooky teaching style is all about – as Lilla often says, “I trick you into doing your best work!”. Anyone is more than welcome to take part whether or not they’re signed up for class. Today we’re delighted to present … Lilla’s Patented 100% Scientifically

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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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Your free #MATSprep for Illustrating Children’s Books!

Do you dream of illustrating a children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a bookshop and seeing your art in the window, or visiting the library and hearing a child exclaiming over the pictures you created! There’s something really magical about immersing yourself completely in a text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy. Lilla is going to help you prepare for our hugely successful course, Illustrating Children’s Books which starts on Monday, July 1st. The Mats Prep (#Matsprep) is for everyone (even if you are not signed up to class) What’s a MATS Prep? It’s a fun free exercise to get prepared for class, or to have some creative fun, and a great way to see what Lilla’s playful, kooky teaching style is all about. Simply download Lilla’s fun worksheet here and fill it in! This will help you start to think about what your individual style is, what you

Composition10 Make Art That Sells FREE class on composition for illustrators from top art agent Lilla Rogers!

FREE class on composition for illustrators from top art agent Lilla Rogers!

Today we’re sharing a great FREE mini class from art agent Lilla Rogers on composition for illustrators, to help you become a composition master!  As an educator, Lilla has taught everyone from little kids to professional artists, but one thing remains constant: she breaks down complex ideas in a way that makes it whimsical and fun, and accessible for everyone. Or as Lilla says, “I trick you into doing your best work.” Just check out this lovely composition for illustrators class to see what we mean.  Kick-ass composition for illustrators by Lilla Rogers  Lilla here. Years and years of illustrating full-time taught me ways to design a page, and now I’ll share them with you. I’ve gathered some flora from my mother-in-law’s bucolic country garden in Western Massachusetts to show you some of my own favorite composition layouts.   How your artwork is composed is so important! I’ve seen really great imagery passed on by art directors because the overall

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,

Get a FREE sneak peek into our magical life changing Illustrating Children’s Books e-course!

Lilla’s artists work on tons of kids’ picture books every year. Let her show you how they got the gigs in her raved about online course, Illustrating Children’s Books  Do you dream of illustrating your own children’s book (or books)? Imagine passing by a book shop and seeing your art in the window, or visiting the library and hearing a child exclaiming over the pictures you created! There’s something really magical about immersing yourself completely in a text and bringing it to life for generations of children to enjoy. Work from a previous Illustrating Children’s Books course by MATS student Agnes Ofner  In our raved-about e-course, Illustrating Children’s Books, which runs for the seventh time from July 1st 2019, you’ll create exactly what an art director needs to see for you to get a children’s book gig: a full page spread, a character page, a front cover and more, in just five weeks. Plus,

PRL20191 Make Art That Sells What is your brand? Find out with our FREE download!

What is your brand? Find out with our FREE download!

What is your brand?   You may have heard people saying that you need to have your own brand, but what is it and how do you get it? Lilla breaks it down in her inimitable style: your brand is simply the art you love to make plus the gigs you want to get. Your brand is also your style. Lilla says “It’s an internal thing and completely instinctive: the art you love to make, your own art that you love, the art materials you love to use, the things that you love to look at, buy or own … All these things come together to create your own personal brand.” Student feedback for Portfolio Review Live  Let’s take an example. When you look at someone’s art and think: wow, they’ve got a really strong brand, perhaps you’re seeing that they really love messy paint, working in blues and greys and drawing birds. You’re seeing the

Plan your amazing 2019 with our FREE Dream Snail downloadable worksheet!

What are your plans for 2019? This part of the year feels like a pause, doesn’t it? A big breath in, a time to take stock, to think about plans for the year ahead. So many of us will be planning resolutions, from small to huge, from mundane to life-changing. And we also know that even as everything settles down into the quiet of wintertime, there’s new life tucked away under the earth, just waiting to burst out and bloom. Art produced by MATS student Nancy Chalmers during our most recent Illustrating Children’s Books course. Nancy landed representation with a global agency during the course and has just been approached by her dream client. Huge congratulations, Nancy, we’re thrilled for you! The Make Art That Sells teachers really know their stuff. Between them, they have decades of experience in illustration, in education, in commissioning work, in home décor, in creating