Category: Amazing illustration
2/17/22
If you haven’t checked out our 6th Annual Lilla’s Menagerie, don’t wait!
Today we’re featuring brand-new mystical work by our artists–from astrology to palmistry to mermaids. We’re getting lots of commissions in this area, so we asked our artists to create work on this cool theme (a personal favorite).
Click on this special link to see all the brand-new work that you’ve been waiting for, available for licensing or for ideas to commission.
If prompted, enter this password: shinynewart
Once in the gallery, be sure to click “View All”.
A few of our favorite mystical images
Scroll down to see a few of our favorites from the 250+ new images we received.
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
2/15/22
Today we’re excited to share with you some of our favorite greeting card art our artists have created for the Menagerie.
If you haven’t checked out our 6th Annual Lilla’s Menagerie, don’t wait!
Enter this password: shinynewart
Once in the gallery, be sure to click “View All”.
Above: Check out this gorgeousness.
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Scroll down to see some of our top favorites from
the 250 new images we received!
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
2/8/22
TODAY’S THE BIG REVEAL! It’s our 6th Annual Lilla’s Art Menagerie–our biggest ever, with over 250 brand-new stunning images to show you, our favorite art directors. Our aim is to provide you with inspiring new work in the themes you look for most.
A few months ago, agents Susan McCabe and Kim Fleming created inspiring trend boards for our artists based on our clients’ most requested themes and concepts. We let the boards loose on our artists, and boy, did they run with them! You’ll find art that’s perfect for so many projects from kid books, greeting cards, toys, games, fabric, apparel, editorial, and much more.
Art Directors: Be quick! Many greeting card companies snap up images on the first day of our Menagerie (today!)
Do you commission work? You’ll be sure to be inspired by what you see. Simply reply to this email.
Enter this password: shinynewart
Once in the gallery, be sure to click “View All”
Want to see more brand-new Menagerie images by
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Contact us to license this image or commission work. To see more of Ruth‘s brand new work and that of our other artists for the Menagerie, click here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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Contact us to license this image or commission work. To see more of Kate‘s new work and that of our other artists for the Menagerie,
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Tara submitted 20 new pieces of art for the Menagerie–wow!
Contact us to license, and see all of Tara’s beautiful work for the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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the Menagerie here. Password: shinynewart
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See more art!
to see the collection of a whopping 250+ brand-new pieces by our artists and snap up images or be inspired for your next project.
Illustration (right) by
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
2/4/22
Our 6th Annual Art Menagerieis ready to burst onto your screen in just four days!
We know you’re gonna love the incredible brand-new work that our artists have created in response to our custom assignments focused on the following categories:
- Stationery
- Journals
- Greeting Cards
- Wrapping Paper
- Apparel
- Baby Layette
- Editorial
- Toy & Game
- Children’s Books
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Scroll down! I’ve selected a few sneak peeks to show you, just to give you an idea of the incredible gallery of work you’re going to see this coming Tuesday–over 250 brand-new images have been created by some of the top artists in the industry, just for this event!
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Q: How will I access the work?
A: You’ll get an email on Tuesday, February 8th at 10AM ET with a link and a special password where you can instantly view the work.
Be poised to pounce! Many images will get scooped up for licensing deals. Don’t license, but looking to commission? No worries! But hurry, because many of our artists will get booked up.
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Q. What will I see in the Menagerie gallery?
A. You will see fabulous brand-new art never shown publicly before, ready to be snapped up. You’ll find a vast array of images suitable for greeting cards, puzzles, journals, fabric, children’s books, and much more!
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Take a look at these extraordinary images our artists created for the Menagerie coming up on Tuesday. Thinking cards, journal covers, puzzle imagery? Yes, these are available for license!
Want to see more incredible work? Stay tuned. Watch for your email on Tuesday for the link to the gallery.
Check out how to advance your art career with one of my courses.
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Above: Meet your teachers, brilliant children’s book art director and
picture book author, Zoë (left), and creative director, art agent and
smash-hit toy creator, Riley (right).
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Join me, Zoë and Riley for a FREE live Zoom event TODAY!
February 4th
at 12 noon ET/5 pm GMT
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You’ll get to meet Zoë and Riley if you don’t know and love them already, plus we’ll be discussing the art you created for the free #MATSprep, what’s in the Character Play course, why you should take it, and tons more. Don’t miss it! Set an alarm on your phone now so you don’t forget!
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Class begins Monday!
Why take this course? Character art gets you work in children’s book, toys, games and so much more. Be sure to have this kind of imagery in your portfolio. Plus we’re always on the hunt for new illustrators to represent from MATS courses.
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Click here to see your teachers, children’s book art director Zoe Tucker and toy and game agent Riley Wilkinson, talking about all about the incredible insider information you’ll get when you sign up for Bootcamp Special: Character Play!
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We’ll teach you how to make characters in our newest course, Character Play.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
1/4/22
Happy New Year!
This is the book we need right now! Get your copy here.
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A Year of Weeks, by Erica Root
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Above: A few interior pages from Erica Root’s book,
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Amazingly, we have over 4,400 images by our artists in our database keywords with #lettering and #inspiration. Agent Kim and I had the pleasure of selecting a few favorites for your enjoyment. Enjoy!
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Illustrations from Plant Inspiration by Storey Publishing
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This was a manifesting worksheet that I made for one of my Make Art That Sells courses that my artists Erica Root and Anke Rega brilliantly filled out.
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Ruth created this colorful pitch image for affirmation cards
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Above: Both are available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing as of this writing
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Available for licensing as of this writing.
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Available for licensing
as of this writing
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Available for license as of this writing.
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From the Kindness Calendar by Amber Lotus
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
12/20/21
Happy Holidays! Enjoy this selection of some of our favorite holiday images by our artists.
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
12/8/21
Every year, we love to provide our readers with a curated sample of our gorgeous artists’ products for sale on their very own shops. Dive in, buy art, support artists!
Stay tuned for our next newsletter where we’ll feature some don’t-miss books, toys, a party paper holiday collection, forest animals ornaments and more by our artists, available from online retailers.
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
This gift card features a sweet watercolor
and mixed media robin sporting a scarf.
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Cute, quirky, and colorful prints and originals
by the inimitable Katie Vernon.
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Camille Dress Petal:
Specks and Keeping in collaboration with Sarajo Frieden
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Left: Lovely cotton scarf available in four designs.
Above: Washi tape in twelve designs–a must for pretty gift wrapping or paper crafting projects. (We’re buying some of these!)
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Inspiring art prints to brighten up your days. Printed high quality on Hahnemühle watercolor paper.
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Silence, affirmations, visualisations, and more reminders to keep you happy during the holidays and into 2022.
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“Blue Macaw” and “Plumeria” are two of the prints available from Jessica Allen at Artfully Walls.
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This exciting abstract digital painting is from a collection
that Zoë has been working on this year.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
10/12/21
GET READY TO SWOON. We’re sharing pages from our artists’ children’s book pitches that were created for our annual Residency and my course,
My Kid Book Pitch (starting October 18th). These charming book pitches are currently available for your consideration.
One (that we can’t show yet) was just picked up and will be published April 2023!
Editors and Art Directors: Don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to see any or all of our artists’ charming and gorgeous children’s book pitches.
You’ll love this appealing and witty tale about an eccentric child who is obsessed with arranging absolutely anything and everything, from flowers to people! We’re particularly excited about Katie’s wit and her luscious watercolor illustrations. What’s so good about this book is its important message of accepting and embracing one’s own unique behavioral differences.
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We’re incredibly excited about Bambi’s historic tale of a brave pioneer, loosely based on Maria Sibylla Merian, a naturalist and scientific illustrator of the 1600’s who travels to the Amazon with her daughter. We follow along as the mother and daughter search for a very exotic and elusive butterfly with help from indigenous people. Loaded with botanical and scientific tidbits, depicting a touching mother/daughter relationship, this feminist STEAM book is sure to do very well.
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Get ready to be floored when you see this magical, painterly pitch by Kendra Binney as she tells a tender and imaginative story of two children—one who is afraid of the ground, and one who is afraid of the sky! Through visually gorgeous illustrations of steampunk-style Rube Goldberg-type contraptions, they find a way to connect. It’s the perfect vehicle for Kendra’s highly in-demand dreamy style.
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Welcome to Adventures in Ida Land. Kelly Anne has crafted an entire charming and eccentric world around her feisty main character, Ida. With the ability to communicate with rocks, trees, and animals, Ida travels through different landscapes cleverly solving Mother Nature’s problems. We love Kelly Anne’s bright illustration style and particularly adorable main character illustration, and the timely environmental message.
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What I love about Mara’s pitch is her ability to tell a laugh-out-loud story about an insecure snail in a cool way that imparts lots of nutty snail factoids. This book celebrates mucous and other gross features such as the dung beetle’s poop. At first jealous of the cool flamingo, Herbert the snail comes to love all of its own special abilities—especially its mucous. Quite frankly, I was amazed at impressive special abilities of a snail that I never knew about. Sure to be a hit with boys and girls alike. STEM with humor!
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Ruth Burrows, our newest artist, created this pitch for My Kid Book Pitch course. It was one of the reasons why I scooped her up.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
10/7/21
As an illustrator in New York, I shared a happily sawdust-laden and tin-ceilinged loft on Bond Street between Broadway and Lafayette with two nutty architects back in the 80’s and early 90’s.
Jeffrey got off of his stool and started playing ‘New York, New York’ on the little electric piano. “Stop working! Come sing with me!” he said.
“Jeffrey, I’m trying to draw stuff for the New York Times! Don’t you have an architectural rendering to do?”
“No, stop working and come sing. It’s only 8. Fedex comes at 9PM”
“Ok, you’re right.” And so it went.
One of my favorite things about being an illustrator was receiving a magazine manuscript by way of the latest technology–a facsimile machine. What a marvel of technology, I thought, as I eagerly watched the article scroll out of the fax on that shiny, curly paper.
Reading a manuscript and then coming up with concept in your own style is a beautiful thing. Today, I’d love to share with you a few of gorgeous, recent editorial illustrations by our artists.
Contact us to assign or license art. We’re happy to help you find the perfect artist or gorgeous images for your project!
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Above:
The Washington Post
Left:
Top Santé Magazine
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The Washington Post
For a piece on protecting your family from mosquitos & pests
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Denver Magazine
Erica Root illustrated this fascinating story about a woman in a small Colorado town who helped grow it into one of the largest women-run communities in the state.
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Jennifer M Potter illustrations for Literati Kids’ subscription box on the theme “Kaleidoscope World”
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Jessica Allen illustration accompanied an essay in the Food and Drink section of Denver Magazine on the writer’s mother and the box of recipes she handed down to him.
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Better Homes & Gardens “Handy Girl” series
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Katie Vernon illustrated an article for Chicago Magazine on planning a wedding during the COVID era.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out
our site to see more.
Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to
contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs.
xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
9/27/21
Personally, we love getting mail and we love sending you our pretty postcards with our artists’ latest and most gorgeous work. We’ve scaled way back due to Covid, but we’re thinking of rebooting the card mailings. Loads of our art directors tell us they love them, save them, and pin them to their walls.
Here’s the rub: We know lots of you are still working from home, so we wondered if you’re getting your business mail. Susan and Kim called around and got a mix of responses. Some of you are going into the office sporadically and getting your mail; some of you are back in the office full time, and some are getting your mail forwarded to home.
So we thought: let’s do a poll. We’d love to hear from you.
Above: Our postcard front, mailed in July of this year to our art directors, editors and others who buy art. This card featured cherished original paintings by our artists, past and present.
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See what I mean? Our cards are pretty.
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Art directors, editors, art buyers: we’d love to hear from you.
(The poll only lets you pick one answer, just so you know.)
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We’re thinking of sending out our pretty postcards again. Which one applies?
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I’m back in the office and get my mail there.
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I work from home but my mail is forwarded to me.
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I work from home and my mail is NOT forwarded to me.
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I go into the office about once a week or so and get my mail.
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I go into the office like once a month or whatever and get my mail then.
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I don’t go into the office. I don’t get my mail. I’m sure there’s a giant pile.
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Above: One of our postcards
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Are you an art buyer or editor? Would you like receive our postcards which we send out about 7 or 8 times a year? Or are you already on our mailing list but would like to give us a new address?
Simply reply to this email.
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See amazing artwork and products by our artists below!
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Above: Illustration for Martini & Rossi Fiero
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These three fully-illustrated books by Zoë Ingram are now available!
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Above: Dare to Dream 1,000 piece puzzle by Sarah Walsh for Flow/Workman
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Above: A recent greeting card by Kelly Anne Dalton for Sellers Publishing
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Above: A recent greeting card by Clairice Gifford for Sellers Publishing
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Above: Fish illustrated by Jessica Allen for Texas Highways Magazine
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Class starts October 18th!
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Basically, my philosophy is this:
Creating a unique picture book comes from understanding what makes you unique and discovering the story you’re excited to tell. To help you do this, I’ve created a playful, personalized and structured course called
My Kid Book Pitch that will bring out your special story. It’s packed full of quirky worksheets, Magic Cards, fun exercises and weekly interactive LIVE videos that will guide you step by step to create your own special brilliant story – the story that only you can write.
I hope you’ll join me October 18th! Learn more or sign up here. Personally, I can’t wait for this one.
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I hope you enjoyed the show! Check out our site to see more. Want great art for your project? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to assist you with any of your art needs. xo
Lilla
Agent, Artist, Author
Founder, Lilla Rogers Studio
Co-Founder, Make Art That Sells
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