Meeting Minutes 11 March 2025

 Meeting Minutes 11 March 2025

Lining Paper With TJ and Foundational Minuscules-Part 1/Lynn Friedberg

29 were present including 1 guest

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**Cyndi Haworth introduced herself as the new guild President, and the current Board: Candy Entingh as VP, Kathy Sullivan as Treasurer, TJ Klajnbart as Secretary, Kristi Lyons as Workshop Chair, Karen Eiles as Service Chair, Cyndi Haworth also as Publicity Chair.  

**We welcomed Juliya Harnood to our meeting as a newbie!

**Kristi asked for us to submit alphabets/hands we’d like to learn or artists we’d like to learn from.  She passed around a sheet for suggestions.

**The Retreat cost in October will be $350 for a shared room, 3 meals a day, and a meeting room for our workshop taught by Cecelia!  It’s a real deal!  Please sign up as soon as possible. We only have 24 spots available. 

**Mary put books for the taking on the FREE table from what she culled from our library. 

 

Show & Share:

**Jacque brought a number of butterflies she did in her watercolor class.

**Tom brought his Tai Chi certificate and Proverbs IX.

**Dawn did a fabulous job with her illuminated work! 

 

Evening Presentation:

**TJ presented a truncated guide to lining copy paper for practice work in any hand, (Cecelia wisely suggested using 11x17 sheets as opposed to 8 1/2 x11 sheets), showing us several options from simple clear rulers to guides like the complicated Linex ruler.  She mentioned starting with a selected nib and making staggered marks to determine the x-height/ascender/descender heights for each hand, making note of those measurements, and suggested marking line placements on both sides of the paper with a fine mechanical pencil for a more accurate line measurement.

**Lynn had her own exemplar and large sheet of paper pre-measured for use with a C-1 Speedball nib for each of us.  She carefully demonstrated the first portion of Foundational minuscules using Sheila Waters’ exemplar, saving the other half for next month.  She encouraged us to practice lettering words to bring back as homework for Show & Share.

 

 

Meeting Minutes 12 Nov 2024

 Meeting Minutes 12 Nov 2024

Watercolor Versals with Nell Houser

24 were present including 2 guests

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed Wendy Prescott and Debbie Myer to our meeting tonight as guests of Nancy Anderson.

**Our annual membership dues of $30 are to be paid in February. We will be electing our Board for 2025. All are welcome to participate!

**Our annual Christmas Party and Card Exchange will be held at 6 pm on Dec 10^th at Cecelia’s. Please bring a dish to the Potluck along with 30 handmade cards if you wish to participate int eh card exchange.

**Lettering bookmarks for Rockledge Ranch was a big hit!  We’ve been asked to do it again. 

**Karen announced a community service project to support a ministry that publishes Sunday School materials for a variety of churches and denominations around the world.  Start collecting canceled stamps, cutting a 1/3-1/2 allowance around each stamp, and give them to Karen Eiles.  

**Tom showed us 2 different carpenter’s pencils he bought on Amazon to practice his lettering in old notebooks he has around the house. 

**Carole introduced us to a hand/brush/palette cleaning paste called ReDuran.

**Lynn brought a package of Stimudent to show us how they can be broken down to size and used to make marks with ink or paste to enhance/embellish backgrounds.

 

 

Show & Share:

**Lynn brought exercises and papers she made at Suzanne Moore’s recent workshop, telling us the word she chose to focus on. 

**Anne did the same, adding to what she learned in class.

**TJ also showed 2 finished books she made from papers made in the workshop along with 5 in progress.

**Lonnie had a hearty report on the 2-week workshop she took in Italy with Brody Neuenschwander and Amity Parks creating a ‘Book of Hours’. 

**Jacque brought several botanical/floral watercolors she did during a class she took from a local senior center.

**Leslie constructed a book from the papers she made in the Suzanne Moore workshop, complete with lettering on every page!

**Karen E lettered the cover of a notebook she had for her friend Carla.

**Christie Lee brought in several pages of leaf prints she did from a recent ‘play day’.

**Jim brought a number of old newsletters and certificates our guild published in the past.

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**Nell did a good bit of prep work for her watercolor demo.  She had Versals hung as displays, had exemplars at each place along with palates of tiny paint blobs, 2 squares of watercolor paper with penciled circles, and saran wrap. We were to choose a versal to lightly draw in the circle.  Next, we were supposed to wet the outer portion of the letter with water and add color to the wet and set it aside.  We could top it with the saran wrap or a pinch of salt if we wanted. We could do second versal while the first one dried.  It was a lot to absorb in one evening, but we all had a good start!

Suzanne Moore Workshop