Friday, March 15, 2024

 Meeting Minutes 12 March 2024

Pointed Brush Lettering Decorations-Lonnie Watts

22 were present-2 guests

 

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed Cheryl Carey’s friend, Kate Bryant, and Anne Dyer’s friend, Judy Ashton to the meeting.

**Candy had her decorated bag on hand to collect any monies towards our retreat this fall.  

**Candy also brought her membership card from 1997 attached to an announcement for a workshop given by Michael Sull.

**Mary Rhodas was the only one who did a panagram/abecedarian! 

**Candy handed out a playing card to each of us with the challenge to create an Artistic Trading Card to bring next month.

**Mary announced she put some freebies from the library on the back table.  What doesn’t get taken will be donated.

**Margaret Satriano joined our guild tonight!

 

 

Show & Share:

**Cecelia had several things to share: a piece from her collage class and a black and white piece on Kozo paper, along with a Uncial piece in blue ink, and 3 brush lettering pieces!  

**Lonnie showed us what she added to her meeting folder, and quarters of Arches Text wove she printed to look like the paste paper originals.  She spray-coated each one to prevent them from buckling with watercolors.

**Tom had a page of Proverbs done in Foundational.

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**Lonnie had several samples to show us on the overhead of names she’d written as practice work in the past.  She letters client’s names on envelopes for open house invitations, knowing people will take note of anything artistic and hand done. She asked us to write one word four times, and began to embellish each one in a different manner using a .01 black micron to add a shadow line and flourishes.  She added layers of color pencil to one, and showed us how to make the name pop by adding a straight black line underneath or a wavy line(s) through the middle of the name.  She likes using Wink of Stella markers and says one marker lasts about 200 envelopes!

**Lonnie let us choose a quarter sheet of printed Text Wove for tonight’s finished piece.


















































Wednesday, February 14, 2024

 Meeting Minutes 13 Feb 2024

Pointed Brush Variations- Cheryl Carey

20 were present (2 guests)

 

 

Welcome & Announcements:

 

**Karen Eiles brought Margaret Satriano and Amy brought Jessica Page to the meeting tonight.  

**Our annual dues of $30 are due this month.  

**Cyndi Haworth will be having surgery on her foot Feb 14 in Denver.  Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

**Nell Houser is going off the Board as Service Chair. Karen Eiles was voted in to take her place.  Kristi Lyons is going off as VP/Program Chair.  Susan Kelly was voted in to take her place.  The rest of the current members have agreed to serve another year.

**Next year’s Retreat is set for Oct 30-Nov 1, 2025. Candy is offering to collect money towards a savings plan if it would help anyone to save towards the cost of $200.00.  The guild will cover the outstanding cost of our stay.  

**TJ made an announcement about this year’s International Conference with some details about ‘Roman Holiday’ hosted by the Chicago Collective at St. Ambrose in IA. 

**Mary Rhodas and Betsy Wintermute have agreed to be our Librarians!  They will start by sorting thru sort thru the materials we have collected.

**Candy challenged us to write a panagram and bring it back next month.  They can be found on-line.

**Lonnie showed us her folder and explained how she came up with the idea and how she printed Arches Text Wove on her Epson computer at home.  The colors and results were pretty amazing. She is willing to do a mini workshop for those interested in using Photoshop to print special papers on Arches. 

 

Show & Share:

**Candy lettered a verse from James in Uncial.

**Tom brought the yearlong project he’s been working on lettering the book of Proverbs a verse a day in foundational James Hayes taught him. He also brought his original membership certificate designed and lettered by James Hayes.

**Mary used Cave paper to make a folder.  She also brought the envelope and ‘test’ names and addresses Kristi Lyons sent her. 

**Debbie brought a framed piece from her mom’s house she did years ago titled Sand dollars.

**TJ lettered a verse from Psalms in Uncial.

**Lonnie brought her homework folder.

**Karen's friend Margaret brought an Italic quote from Hellen Keller.

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**Cheryl had a number of exemplars of her letters and some inspired by Yves Leterme.  She asked us to bring copy paper to work on and a pointed cartridge brush.  She demonstrated how to letter holding the brush in the normal, natural way to achieve a more controlled letter.  She then shifted to an upright/perpendicular hold on the brush, freeing the arm to create a more free-spirited letter.  We practiced on our own for a while and then she had us make Cootie Catchers or Fortune Tellers using Cecelia’s colorful 12x12 papers.  She walked us through the folding and gave us possible words to write in the correct spots.  The directions can be found at www.teachbesideme.com. It was a fun little take home!   

 

























Friday, January 12, 2024


              Meeting Minutes 9 Jan 24

Uncial- Kathy Sullivan

24 were present (4 guests)

 

 

 

Welcome & Announcements:

 

**We welcomed 4 guests to our meeting Leslie Boehm brought Emma Braithwalt the assistant manager of Paper Source, Karen Eiles brought Merle Dallison and Linda Johnson, and Debbie Earnshaw came on her ow after being away from the guild for many years.

**Candy will bring a ‘savings pouch’ each month f anyone would like to treat it like a Christmas Fund to save for our upcoming Retreat in Oct.

**Leslie presented several article reviews from 2 recent issues of Lettered Arts Review.  One was on Stan Knight, and the other was on Maud Bekaert from Bruges. Leslie and 3 others had the chance to study in Bruges under Brody, and she had a carved letter ‘B’ from Maud to show us.  

**The Winter Envelope Exchange is in full swing.  Candy brought one she received with a sketch of Levi on the front!

**TJ sent around a permission slip of sorts asking for permission to send photos she takes at the meetings to Cyndi for her to post to Instagram.

**Let’s Letter Together is offering an on-line class by Susie Berringer.

**Larry and Marsha Brady’s deaths in December were announced. Cecelia asked if anyone had photos of them from our Conference in 2013.  There will be a Memorial sometime in the future. 

**Our annual dues of $30 are due in February.  Please send your payments to Summit Scribes or thru Sherry by cash, check, and Venmo.

 

Show & Share:

**We went around the room and showed off the folders we made to hold all of our handouts each month. Candy had half sheets with the year’s presentations all typed up for us to keep track of our schedule.

**Tom has started another year of a quote a day shifting from Copperplate to Foundational.  He plans to take 3 years to copy the whole book of Proverbs!

**TJ brought in doodling she did with the bleached letters/forms done in class in November.

**Jacqui brought watercolor envelopes.

**Cyndi was able to retrieve the Uncial piece she did for her mother and bring it in to show us her lovely work.

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**Kathy introduced us to Uncial with a brief history of how Uncial came into use, giving a good bit of credit to St. Patrick.  She had a packet of examples, exemplars, and lines at each seat, along with a nice piece of Arches. She demonstrated each letter starting with the rounds, focusing on any tricky parts, including how to end our strokes by lifting the pen up and off to one side.  I hope we all make an effort to work this hand into some practice work this month! (I failed to take pictures of everyone working in Uncial.  Sorry!  I was too caught up in my own practice of it!)

          Folders we made to keep our monthly hand outs!















Envelope sent to Candy!

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Cyndi's Uncial