“For anyone who wants to elevate their styling skills and have more confidence in their content creation”
In this workshop, you will learn about the magical world of prop styling and why it is so necessary when creating content. Many small businesses are expected to “do it all” including creating their own content to market and sell their products and services. Styling helps you create a visual story to connect with your audience, evoke feelings, and leave a lasting impression. With these simple tips and tricks, you will take home resources to elevate your photos to the next level. This workshop will be taught from a broader perspective, so it can be applied to a wide variety of areas of life.
Is this workshop for you?
This workshop is designed for aspiring prop stylists, photographers, content creators, makers, surface designers, small business owners or anyone who wants to elevate their styling skills and have more confidence in their content creation.
You may want to become a professional prop stylist and style for brands and magazines
You may have a small emerging brand and want to style your content yourself because you're interested or don’t have the budget to hire a prop stylist
You may want to style product photos for your online or Etsy shop
Maybe you’re a blogger or influencer and need to style set ups for brand partnerships
You work at a shop and want the shelves and displays to look nicer
You want your home to look prettier and want to style shelves and tables
You host big dinner parties and love setting a table
Or just for fun!
What we’ll be covering:
Defining Prop Styling
Planning a photoshoot (creating moodboards, shot lists, prop lists, surfaces and backdrops, styling toolkit)
Basic principles of design and styling
How to get the final shot (photography, lighting, shot angles…)
Short live demo
Where: This online workshop will run on Zoom on Tuesday 9th May 2023. It will last 1 hour and 30 minutes. The workshop will be recorded so you will be able to access it later on too. You will receive a private link two days after the live workshop has happened.
Good to know: You’ll be able to ask questions during the workshop, through the chat or directly via video. Mimi’s workshops are meant to be lovely, lively events where you to feel at ease and participate if you want to.
About your teacher: Rayna Marlee Schwartz
Hi, I’m Rayna. I am a designer-stylist-creative director-curator … a multi-hyphen creative based in Toronto, Canada. I am an award winning prop stylist with close to ten years of professional experience working on commercial and editorial sets. I spent the first half of my career focused on editorial design with work published in many magazines including Chatelaine Magazine, HGTV Magazine, and Today’s Parent Magazine. While I continue to style, I am also pursuing my love for design and patterns creating unique, playful, simple, yet stunning pattern designs available to license.
I am a proud mama of two boys, Benson + Oliver, who inspire everything I do. I curate the blog The Mom Lists - a design centered lifestyle brand featuring makers, creatives, and companies pushing boundaries and doing awesome things. I am a connector and love helping others. I am always cheering on other designers and small businesses - I truly believe in community over competition. I love juxtapositions that just work. I love layers. I love textures. I love patterns. I love muted and calm colours with a pop of excitement. I love curated chaos and timeless traits with a side of something new and fresh. I love nature walks with the fam and flowers, always flowers. Children’s artwork and doodles are just the best!
My versatile background in design and education is reflected in everything I do. I navigate each project with an open mind and always strive to have the confidence of a child. I love collaborating and meeting new people, please say hello, at rayna.marlee@gmail.com - I’d love to connect.
Instagram: @rm.by.raynamarlee
Website: Rayna Marlee Design