14 Oct 2025 Meeting Minutes

 Welcome & Announcements:

**TJ introduced her fiancé, Page Clark!

**The gallery show ‘Crease” is currently in session at Commonwheel thru Nov 3.

**Retreat check in is 4 pm.  Helpers are asked to show up at 3 pm. Bring snacks and/or drinks of your choosing. 3 meals a day will be offered, and we’ll have the evenings free to work on projects.  An updated supply list went out via email.

**We will have a year in review for our November meeting.  Please bring a project you’ve been working on and/or have completed in Foundational. 

 

Show & Share:

**Nancy Anderson brought signed copies of the book she recently illustrated to purchase, along with samples of the work she did for a Rick Paulus workshop via Zoom- Futuacha, a piece titled Loss, and random-marked artwork all done with a B3 nib.

**Tom stole the show with his standard Proverb of the month, but showed slides of the large mural he did for the local Catholic church featuring clouds and rays of light streaming from a dove-very impressive! He also lettered a slab of slate as a memorial to the unborn for the church as well.

**Kathy brought an original paper cutting for October and a colored finished piece.  She had also cut animal images out of an eraser-like rubber for stamps.

**Kristi brought a framed quote lettered in a slightly funky Foundational.

 

Evening Presentation:

**Sherry was discharged from the hospital only hours before our meeting with asthma, so Cyndi stepped in and up to take her place.  Sherry had an exemplar by Mike Kesig for us to follow.  We used a straight pen holder with a pointed nib of our choice to letter the minuscules in order as well as the capitals.  

Meeting Minutes 9 Sept 2025

 Meeting Minutes 9 Sept 2025

Foundational Bent Nib B-3 with TJ Klajnbart

16 were present

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**An email was sent to those attending the Retreat in October with a list of materials you’ll want to have on hand.

**This year’s Gallery Show at Commonwheel is Oct 3-Nov 3.

 

Show & Share:

**Kristi Lyons had a few pieces she’s been working on.  One especially nice was a framed piece in French Roundhand.

**Nancy Anderson had 4 framed pieces- one done on fabric, an Uncial piece, one titled ‘Lament’, and another ‘Joy’.

**Cheryl had a paste paper piece she lettered in gold gouache.

**Tom Heany lettered his Proverb of the month along with a couple of ‘God is Perfect’ pieces, and a fun and funky print of the front end of a car.

**Kathy Sullivan had a fun Halloween lino print as well as a beautiful paper cut piece.  

**Cecelia showed us a sample of a jelli print she plans to introduce us to during the retreat.

Evening Presentation:

**TJ had an exemplar of an open-letter Foundational hand she designed for the class.  The pen nib width was 5/3/5, accommodating elongated ascenders and descenders.  She wanted to make sure each member had a cleaned nib and lined paper on hand.  She then proceeded to make each letter with additional comments encouraging everyone to add to or adjust the letters as they saw fit, adding open spaces in different parts of each letter.  She went through the exemplar letter by letter starting with the minuscules and going on to the capitals.  

 

Meeting Minutes 10 Jun 2025

 Meeting Minutes 10 May 2025

Majuscules/Roman Caps Part 2 with Kathy Sullivan

22 were present

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**Anyone interested in being in the Commonwheel show in October needs to let Kathy Sullivan know by the end of the month.

**We still have slots available for our Retreat at Hide Away at the end of October.  Registration slips are available.  

**Cecelia brought a number of examples to give us an idea of some of the things she plans to demonstrate during our retreat.  Some were cut-outs in wood and paper, some layering, some block text along with an art element, drawn letters, and altering weight and size.

**Foundational Fun Day at Heritage Park Rec Center will be Sat Jun 21 from 10-2.  Bring anything you’d like to work on and a sack lunch.  Fridge and sink are available.  

**Our Swap & Shop at Candy’s will be from 9-12 on Saturday, June 28.  Be sure to label things you want to sell with the price and your name/initials. 

**Nancy Anderson will be teaching Foundational with Parallel Pens in July.  She suggests using a 3.0/old green/new pink pen for size. She plans to focus on spacing and making lively/bouncing letters.

**Jerry’s Artarama in Ft. Collins has a good selection of calligraphy supplies.  

**Office Depot on 8^th Street is going out of business.  Grab envelopes and supplies at a discount!

 

Show & Share:

**TJ had a small piece she lettered in Foundational and a booklet co-lettered in pointed pen by the woman she met at Conference last year.

**Cyndi brought a framed wedding piece in Uncial and a large Foundational text.

**Dawn brought beautiful illuminated letters to include the word ‘Beowulf’.  

 

Evening Presentation:

**Kathy brought exemplars from a weeklong class she took in England from Peter Thornton in 1994. She wanted us to look at the weight of his Roman Caps, remember our proportions, and pay special attention to the serifs and ending strokes.  She began with single strokes, then angled strokes, ones with rounds, then his squarish rounds. It was a wonderful instruction.   

Meeting Minutes 13 May 2025

 Meeting Minutes 13 May 2025

Majuscules/Capitols Part 1 with Kathy Sullivan

16 were present, including 1 guest

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed Kaylee Newland to our meeting.

**Those who haven’t paid their dues have an asterisk next to their name on the guild roster.  

**10 members have signed up for the retreat in October.  We have room for 24.  We will open it up to the Denver guild in June.

**We are having a Swap & Shop at Candy’s from 9-noon on Saturday June 28. It will be a great opportunity to clean out your studio!

**Our guild is now being featured in Peak Radar, a local publication highlighting what is going on in the arts and culture world. 

**Since we don’t have any volunteers to letter bookmarks on Sunday, we will only letter on Saturday and Monday.  

**Nancy Anderson will be teaching Parallel Pen in July and brought a sample sheet of sizes to consider. 

**Kathy needs to know the number of members planning to submit work to the Commonwheel Gallery show by our meeting in June. Pieces need to be framed and priced.  They will take a 40% commission.

**Ace Hardware cuts glass.  Tom has plenty of glass if you want him get a piece from him.

 

Show & Share:

**Tom completed Proverbs 11.

**Kimmi used a brochure she got in Durham, NC and used it as a cover for a poem she lettered.

**Lynn lettered a portion of scripture in Foundational.

 

Evening Presentation:

**Kathy had lined sheets with proportion-boxes and an exemplar of Roman Caps for each of us. She took her time to demonstrate the basic steps to make an ideal ‘O’- the basis of the Foundational Alphabet. We worked our way thru the Rounds and the 2/3 width letters. She plans to finish the alphabet next month.