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 2: Lamp Shades
So the course you’re preparing for, is about home décor. Your mission today is to take a photo of one of the home décor products: lamp shades. Find them in your house/apartment, in the subway, in shops, in cafés, in restaurants… I’ll go first. Here are lampshades from my studio. Photo by Lilla Rogers Photo by Lilla Rogers Helen Dardik for BlueQ “Home Décor” means things that people buy to put in their homes including… Things you put on tables that are functional like: -Lamps -Lampshades -Candles -Flower pots and vases -Candlesticks -Trays -Table linens Things that add beauty to your space like: -Rugs -Decorator pillows -Little sculptures Larger items that store things like: -Dressers -Shelving -Canisters And on and on and on… We’re just going to look at lamps and lampshades today so that this Mini gets you looking at one type of home décor product without being overwhelming.
#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.
Day One: Mini Assignment #myMATSprep
It’s prep time for the upcoming MATS A/B courses that begin Oct.19th! Lilla has created a series of five mini assignments to get you ready all this week before the course starts next Monday. Sign up today for the incredibe course. It’s the last time Lilla is doing live reivews! You don’t want to miss out on getting your work in front of her. Post your work for each of the week’s assignments on Instagram with the hashtag #mymatsprep. From Lilla: DAY 1. Mini assignment Number 1: Nuts for Neutrals Your mission is to gather some nuts and match the colors. Since these Mini Prep assignments are written for you, you make your rules. You can gather actual nuts or use photos from online. Your definition of nuts can even include things like coconuts! What I’m going for here is that you delve deeply into gorgeous shades of brown. Why? Because
#myMATSprep starting next week and awesome new downloadables
There is so much good stuff going on with the upcoming MATS A and B classes, it’s hard to know where to begin! First off we’re super excited to announce that Zoë Tucker, an Art Director in the publishing industry, is doing a guest review in the upcoming MATS A with Lilla. Zoë is an independent Art Director in Brighton, U.K. She has over 17 years in the publishing industry working in-house for Random House, Penguin and Scholastic. Zoë will be highlighting a selection of assignments in week three of MATS A giving feedback and invaluable advice to MATS students. Who knows she may just find her next Illustrator and it might just be YOU! Don’t forget this is the last time Lilla is doing MATS A and B LIVE and with the reviews of your assignments. Get your work in front of Lilla while you can. You don’t want to miss this!! We’re also so
How our MATS Alumni have been rocking it in 2015! (Part 1)
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 earlier in the year. Here is part 1 in our series. 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. It’s also really important to say that people join Make Art That Sells (MATS) at different stages of their creative journey. Some are nearly ready to seek out work, others less so. For many people the greatest breakthrough is a new level of confidence in their work, a fresh love of creating, or
Manifesto Monday part 26
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, registration is open here! *** Bishop Lennon Susse Linton Tracy Loughlin Anisa Makhoul Apara Maney Christina Mann *** Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, registration is open here!
Manifesto Monday part 25
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, registration is open here! *** Courtney Keller Mandy Kippax Gabrielle Krake Almudena Laborda Patricia Lebedel Anne Lehman *** Would you like to experience the Make Art That Sells class yourself? The next session will take place October 2015, registration is open here!