We're going to talk about how to use everyday objects that you might find around your house
to create fine art images and I'm so particularly passionate about this topic because when I started
out creating I had nothing at my disposal I didn't have money I didn't have resources I didn't have
a good location so what I had was whatever was already in my apartment so the first one
is this little candle holder and I just got this recently just as a candle holder the reason why I
really like candles is because they're so timeless and they add really dynamic light to an image
so you could use something like this and look at the glow you can see it right oh I sure do hope
you can see it on myself so there's a nice glow and depending on how you hold it really changes
the story of the image if you sort of hold it like a lantern if you are holding it close to your face
um to a hand you know there are so many ways that we could use something like this in our art so
candles are a good go-to if you're thinking about experimenting this week and don't forget the smoke
that comes with the candle because that's also really good to photograph if you can manage it
the next thing that I grabbed is saran wrap or plastic wrap depending on where you are and now
this is for my creepy folk okay so some of you guys might be like oh god what's she about to do
with this weird plastic wrap well there are lots of things that you can do so one of the things
that you can do with plastic wrap is paint on it and then use that paint as an overlay or a texture
which is really fun to do so you can use this just as it is to paint on and then it's clear
so you can photograph things on top of it um for a nice easy sort of way to paint on uh or
you can get creepy with it right because you know it looks is this the weirdest thing I've ever done on video? Maybe
you see the way that it sucks in it's really interesting to me and texture can be
applied to this and this would be a great idea for something like suffocation as a theme entrapment
feeling stuck feeling I mean so many different things and then of course there are many ways that
you could use something like this too like maybe as a bind uh around a hand who knows molasses
apples you know food is a great prop here are these lemons and all sorts of fruit that i got at
the grocery store that day hands getting someone who's in your household with you to help you as a
prop which is really fun to do as well flour that I just photographed flour sugar works really well
salt works really well anything that has you know kind of a dense particle to it awesome these are
images that I use things from around my house for example these two images that you see here were
shot my very first week of creating I just picked up my camera i did not know what I was doing
and in the image on the left it's just a cardboard box that i cut out to look like a
sign and I attached a piece of string to it and I created the picture with that just whatever I
could find around my house and then the picture on the right was just a ball of Christmas lights
that i balled up to look like light here we have a candle and a light bulb a bed sheet
absolutely nothing other than what's around my house in this case sheets from my childhood
that I put light behind to come through so it had that kind of glowy childhood lantern look
here we have another light bulb a chair that was from my dining room
some rope um a propeller from my fan that I had sitting at my desk just something little that I
could take apart and reconfigure balloons uh that I had for some special occasion this was the dryer
in my basement and I'm going to share all of these images with you in the hope
that it sheds some light on how you could see ordinary objects in new ways so here we have a
watch that I thought was really interesting so i used that these were not my finest period of work
but it was really fun and it lead to so much growth so here's a stapler
um you know i don't even know if we need to talk about the milk the milk has a whole
situation isn't it so we've got the milk where I put myself in this cup of milk then we've got
the trashcan one of several trash cans that I could have shown you that I had outside I
hope this is giving you some ideas of how you might see your everyday objects in new ways