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.

Meeting Minutes 8 April 2025

 Meeting Minutes 8 April 2025

Filing Nib Tips/Tom and Foundational Minuscules-Pt 2/Lynn Friedberg

26 were present-including one guest Mary Ann Hill

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We have a new sound system with a headset to improve our ability to hear!

**Fliers for the Retreat in October were available to take. Registration forms are available.  Cost for the whole weekend to include instruction, lodging, and food is $350.00.

**Kathy Sullivan would like to see at least 20 framed entries for the exhibit at Commonwheel this October. 

**Leslie made announcements on behalf of Karen, for the Canceled Stamp Ministry (save your canceled stamps with ¼ inch of paper surrounding the stamp) and Making Bookmarks for Territory Days.  2-hour slots are needed Sat-May 25/Sun-May 26/Mon-May 27.

**Our next PlayDay is set for Saturday April 26 from 10-2 at Heritage Park Clubhouse at Palmer Park and Eagle View.  Bring Foundational hand to work on along with a sack lunch and supplies, to include a lamp for additional light if you have one.  

**The Lending Library is Open and ready for books/periodicals to be checked out. Mary Rhodas has been culling and updating the books we’ve collected over the years.  The list was sent in an email and it’s available on our blog at summitscribes.blogspot.com.

**Cheryl Carey brought the decorated envelopes we received for our Conference Registration in 2013.

 

Show & Share:

**Tom lettered Proverbs 10 in Foundational.

**Anne used the Weaver style hand to letter two pieces on a gelli/acrylic background.

**Cecelia brought several pieces she finished in John Stevens’ 5-week on-line class- in Foundational!

**Mary Ann lettered a Bible verse in Spencerian that was decorated and framed.

**Kathy had a light table she made from a wooden wine box.  She offered it to anyone who wanted it. 

**Lynn lettered a ‘Bearly’ piece in Foundational.

 

Evening Presentations:

**Tom showed us how file a worn square nib into a sharp clean edge by wetting a whet stone and rubbing the tip of the nib back and forth and sideways at a perfectly perpendicular 90%.  After dipping the nib into ink and making circles, he inspected it for burrs.  Then he turned the nib over to rub the top of it at a 45% angle to produce a very fine edge.  He did the same thing turning a dull pointed-nib into a tiny straight-edged nib. It was very practical, helpful, and informative!

**Lynn had an original sized exemplar for each of us along with 2 sheets of Abecedarians. She started with the letter ‘o’ as a warm up for those who missed last month’s Minuscules-Part 1.  We had been encouraged to line our paper before arriving so we could get started right away.  Several of us lettered on our own as she demonstrated the remaining letters.  She and Kathy went around the room to check our work and help anyone who had questions. 

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!