Meeting Minutes 10 March 2026

 Meeting Minutes 10 Mar 2026

Pointed Pen-Spencerian Caps with TJ

18 were present-including 2 guests

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed 2 new guests, Aaron Ruchala who is a budding tattoo artist interested in lettering, and Breanna Hopkins, who found us when Nancy told her about us when she was lettering bookmarks at The Mining Museum.

**We were reminded our annual dues of $30.00 were to be paid in February.

**The calendar contest is on!  Design an 8x10 vertical piece (or pieces) and turn it (them) into a Board Member.  We will decide at our annual picnic in August. 

**Nancy (Service Chair) reported her lettering bookmarks at the Mining Museum was well received!  She made up watercolor using actual minerals and gave each person the choice of color/mineral for her to letter their name. 

 

Show & Share:

**Jacque brought an envelope she lettered and a few watercolors she’d done.

**Kristi lettered a number of envelopes.

**Tom finished Proverbs 18:1-20 and had copy work for a thank you he was designing for a woman named ‘Sharon’.  

**Nell brought a Bible quote with a color pencil/watercolor background as well as a few pages in a journal she worked on.

**Kathy painted 2 small ‘Saint’ pieces for small mats she already had.

**Cecelia brought a sink art piece with drawn letters from the class she’s teaching in her home.  She recently discovered the small Copic markers she used to design a word collage.

**Nancy brought her winter homework-a poem she wrote in resist and with a watercolor background, and flourishes she learned from IAMPETH. 

**Jessica brought the very first envelope she ever lettered!

**David designed 2 name plaques for his kids- ‘Isaiah’, due next month, and ‘Lucille’.

**TJ showed the video Daniella sent her as homework from Dresden, Germany as well as her still, and a papyrus book she brought back from Egypt.  

 

Evening Presentation:

**TJ gave a brief history of the Spencerian Script designed in the early 1800’s by Platt Rogers Spencer as a quickly written cursive handwriting.  She explained the difference between Copperplate, Roundhand, and Engrosser’s Script with visual examples of each.  She explained how to properly hold the obliques holder in the crook of your hand and how to create the heavy shade at the bottom of each stem stroke.  We traced the basics with a pencil, and she encouraged us to have a good understanding of the forms before dipping our pens in ink!