1 Make fun silhouette art using everyday objects

Whether it’s a teapot, a toothbrush, an iron or a table lamp, we interact with dozens of household items every day. Their design is often underappreciated or overlooked, but lockdown has given us the time and space to view household items in a very different light – or in no light at all, as we’ll see.

Silhouettes are created when the background is brighter than a darker foreground subject; a silhouette emphasises the outline and shape of the object in question. Take your daily exercise at sunrise or sunset, and you will see this effect in the natural world, when the outline of trees or