11 November 2025 Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes 11 Nov 2025

Retreat Summary/Show & Share

16 were present

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**Our annual Christmas party will be a potluck at 6 pm on Dec 9 at TJ’s. We are to bring 30 handmade cards for our card exchange.

 

Retreat Summary:

**Cecelia capped our year of Foundational off with a wonderful retreat at the Hideaway in Monument!  She wanted us to take what we had learned all year and apply it to various backgrounds and jelli prints she brought.  She had us drawing and tearing letter forms in a variety of ways to get us loosened up and relaxed. We drew letters which gave us a freedom to explore sizes and shapes and compositions.  We used tracing paper and Saral papers to transfer our sketched work, we embellished paper with gouache and colored pencils, and we learned how important it is to work with very sharp colored pencils.  The accommodations were ideal- great setting in the woods just out of town with a good-sized room to work in, and terrific food!  We even had 3 gals who came up from the NM guild in Albuquerque! We all had big lettering fun!

 

Tips & Tricks:

**Cecelia- use the computer and our phones to further enhance/showcase our work

**Tom- use and old toothbrush to add splashes of color

**Kathy- just do it! Don’t be afraid of pencil 

**Lynn- take the advice of others

**TJ- use tracing paper/Saral paper 

**Leslie- have a good pencil sharpener

 

Show & Share:

**Those present who had work to show included Tom, Kristi, Lynn, Zelda, Candy, Christy, Cheryl, Lynn, Kathy, Nell, Mary, and TJ.  

These are some of the examples Cecelia showed at the retreat of work she has done capping off our year of Foundational.

These are examples of work done during the retreat, shown and shared at our November meeting.  My apologies for not taking pictures at the retreat to showcase more examples of work done!

Leslie/TJ

Cheryl

TJ

TJ

TJ

TJ

Cecelia/Cheryl

Cecelia/Cheryl

Cheryl

Cheryl

Tom

Tom

Tom

Tom

Cheryl

Cheryl

Candy

Candy

Candy

Candy

Candy??

TJ/Candy/Leslie

 

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.