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…
Category: Chats
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…
New Collective Spaces
The Collective gallery have just opened it’s doors to it’s new home on Calton hill on Edinburgh’s iconic City Observatory site. A few of us brave enough to battle the horizontal rains and winds on top of the hill that day went to go check it out. We chattered to Katie Reynolds the learning producer and…
Outdoor Sketching & Meeting like-minded Folk
We like to frequently take ourselves out of the studio to sketch outdoors, meet others and chat ideas while on walks in the great outdoors. Here’s one day’s adventures on Blackford Hill, The Royal Observatory and Hermitage of Braid Local Nature Reserve. We came across The Lodge Coffee House whose owners were super friendly, gave…
Sketching at Drift
Ellie, Alex, Lee, Adele, Franco, Maggie and Vic love drawing and wanted to get outside to sketch in the elements. We’d heard of new cafe venue Drift in East Lothian with amazing views of the Bass Rock and out to sea so we went to check it out for ourselves…
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,…
Common Play with Seasons
Season’s Project, a mental health and support organisation came along to our Common Play Exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art and loved what we were doing. They share similar interests, so we asked them to join us in our studio to get a flavour of what we get up to. We experimented with cyanotype photography…