Artist and musician Sarah McWhinney led a life drawing session at Basic Mountain studio. We engaged in short and long exercises to capture shape and movement, experimenting with graphite, charcoal and ink as mediums.
Category: Making
Bookbinding session #2 with Cassandra Barron
We returned to the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens Cottage for a second bookbinding session. Armed with our tools, and suppied with a tantalising array of materials, we learned some binding techniques to make custom sketchbooks and booklets.
Paper marbling and Monoprinting
To complement our bookbinding sessions, we tried our hand at paper marbling at Basic Mountain Studio. The prints are achieved by using oil based ink in a tray with water; the design floats on the water and covers the paper dipped in the tray. It was interesting to see how many different designs can come…
Felted portraits
Ellie introduced us to needle felting- and we thought it would be great to felt our own portraits with it!Franco proved to be a popular subject- he made his own portrait and another one was made with love by Yvonne- whisk and all. Felt-a-thon at Basic Mountain studio
Bookbinding session #1 with Cassandra Barron
In Curious Routes, we always start a creative process by sharing ideas, having conversations and drawing inspiration from each member’s unique style and interests. having a go at bookbinding allowed us to experiment with different techniques we would like to utilise to engage in some self-publishing! We invited Cassandra Barron, an Edinburgh-based artist who arrived…
Crochet taster session
We were joined by designer Cyd from Needlemaker UK to get our hands around the basics of crochet. We are keen to use this technique to create a large collaborative sculpture. As we shared that we are interested in crochet as a sculpture technique, Cyd introduced us to the work of OLEK (Agata Oleksiak), a…
Eco Print Workshop at Bridgend Allotments
We joined forces with Eco Printer Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw to create dress and props for our “Green Court” event in Edinburgh. Eco printing refers to the act of directly applying plants to textiles to alter colour, apply colour and create interesting designs. “ Natural dyeing” is a component, as everything used is natural, such as…
Soul Food Sisters collaboration
As part of our women’s group; Yvonne, Adele, Vic, Chelley, Archane, Dorothy, Anna, Maggie, Fiona, Sue, Anne and Annabel wanted to come together around their shared interest in expanding their culinary knowledge, keenness to share skills and interesting stories in social and relaxed settings. We approached Soul Food Sisters in Glasgow as their ethos matched…
Macramé Making
Yvonne’s Granddad used to work as a fisherman at sea and she talks fondly of his incredibly weathered face and all the different knots and knot making skills that were necessary to his trade. She has always been interested in the various craft based textiles such as knitting, crochet, weaving and embroidery using more traditional…
Women’s Group & PROCESSIONS
Women from Artlink’s Curious Routes and Artlink’s Glasshouses arts for mental health projects came together to design and make banners in celebration of 100 years of women voting in the UK in collaboration with Processions public art project. PROCESSIONS was a once-in-a-lifetime mass participation artwork which celebrated one hundred years of votes for women. Processions was…
Broxburn United Sports Club Collab
We wanted to take our Common interests on tour!.. so here we are at Broxburn United Sports Club with their over 50s group Alive and Kickin’. We shared our passions for birdwatching and walks with Franco & Alex, mono printing with Ellie, Songwriting with Lee & Peter, Cooking with Franco & Kevin, Textiles with Dorothy,…
Pasta Masta Making
Inspired by Franco’s culinary skills we had a go at making our own pasta from scratch, needless to say it was delizioso!
Songwriting in the Studio
The studio is our base to test out ideas. Here are Lee & Peter jamming and creating song writing ideas and performing their latest creation entitled East Marseilles.
Making DJ Booth
We’re taking Lee and Ellie’s vinyl collection on tour. We’ve created a bespoke DJ booth for our up and coming Programme of events and exhibition launch of COMMON PLAY at Edinburgh College of Art’s Tent Gallery.
Screen Printing Posters
Inspired by our interests in Birdwatching, film screening, Ping-Pong, fishing and Cycling; Ellie, Lee, Luke, Meg and Peter come up with a series of Illustrations inspired by their interests in collaboration with artist Bernie Reid in his screen printing studio in Leith. The prints will turn into posters to advertise our future events and happenings.
Printing onto Ping-Pong Table
Our beautifully crafted ping pong table is made! We’re now using Lee’s bespoke two colour ping-pong design to screen print directly onto the surface of the birch plywood ping-pong table, in collaboration with artist and screen printer Bernie Reid. Good to go!
Screen Printing Ping-Pong
Working alongside artist Bernie Reid in his print studio to create initial sketches and ideas for the screen printed ping pong surface design. The final design will be hand screen printed onto the birch plywood portable ping pong table.
Portable Ping-Pong Table Making
Franco and Alex are avid woodworkers and were super keen to work with furniture designer Susan Harper to design and make a bespoke ping ping table. The idea was inspired by Lee’s passion for the game and the idea of making it portable so we can share this passion with others.