Lilla here. I’m excited to share Part 4 of this #MATSprep warm up exercise I’ve created for you ahead of my course, Creating Collections for Home Décor, which starts NEXT MONDAY, August 29th. You can catch up on the previous parts here if you missed them, or just dive straight in.
If you haven’t signed up for Creating Collections for Home Décor yet, there’s still time! You’ll spend an incredible five weeks with me and my fantastic co-teacher, creative director and trend queen Margo Tantau, learning everything you need to know to create and license products for the lucrative home décor market. You’ll create some stunning art and learn how to present your designs as collections, making them more appealing to clients. The course is packed with information from our decades in the industry – don’t miss it! Sign up now.
In Part 3, we started to learn a little more about your unique personal style. Today, in Part 4, we’re going to release your inner kook and dig deep into your quirky personality. I’ll explain why once you’ve done the assignment: but for now, let’s play.
Part 4: Once I lived in a tree house
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 ____________________________________________________________.
The objects in it were these colors (you can use the colors you came up with for Part 1 here if you want): ____________________________________________________________.
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. Creative people are usually a bit quirky and eccentric. The amazing thing is that those quirks and eccentricities are what make you unique – they are what make you, you. And the more you let them shine, the more your personality and individual style will come through in your art. You can be your own brand. Let your inner weird come out!
There’s another reason too. It’s a sneaky way of getting you to discover your aesthetic sensibility for interior spaces and home décor objects, building on the work that we started together in Part 3. This is fantastic preparation for Creating Collections for Home Décor, where you’ll learn how to put together your own home décor line in your own unique, beautiful, individual style.
Art from Creating Collections for Home Décor by Make Art That Sells student Meera Lee Patel. Look at those dreamy images and that soft color palette. What will your collection look like? Learning more about your style is a step on that journey.
Tip: If you want to learn more about how flying your kook flag can help your creative career, check out my FREE video series, Monetizing your Quirks: What makes you weird is what makes your brand. You can get it in the Make Art That Sells Freebie Library here.
You get an extra credit for drawing your tree house. Let yourself be as wacky as you want to. I want you to have fun with this. Think about furnishing your tree house with your home décor products. What do they look like?
I can’t wait to see what you do! Don’t forget to share on social media and tag @makeartthatsells and use the hashtag #MATSprep so I can find it.
Seriously, I’m think I’m falling a bit in love with you all.
Join me and my fabulous Creating Collections for Home Décor co-teacher, Margo Tantau, for a FREE live Zoom event THIS FRIDAY, August 26th, at 12 noon ET/5 pm BST! We’ll be talking about the #MATSprep, answering your questions about the course and anything else you want to ask us from our decades in the industry, and popping a volunteer up onto the screen so we can chat to them directly. Plus we’ll be giving away a FREE place in class to one lucky viewer (if you’ve already signed up then you can swap it for a different Make Art That Sells course or gift it to a friend)!
Don’t miss it! Make a note on your calendar now, scrawl a note on your hand with your favourite marker, and set an alarm on your phone. Join the live Zoom here.
Art by Make Art That Sells student Tina Löffler for Creating Collections for Home Décor. Isn’t it amazing to see how different everyone’s individual style is? Let me help you tap into yours. Join the class here.
Hurry HURRY – class starts THIS MONDAY, August 29th, but there’s still time to sign up! I can’t wait to see what you’re going to do.
Lots of love
