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!  

 Meeting Minutes 10 Feb 2026- recorded by Nancy Anderson

Flourishing with Cyndi Haworth

 

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**Dues are $30 and are due this month

**Submit artwork for the calendar as an 8x10 vertical or a 4x5 scale

**Service opportunity- lettering bookmarks at the Mining Museum Feb 21^st from 10-2

**Business cards were passed around

**Voting for the Board was unanimous as is

 

Show & Share:

**Nancy brought painted papers and paper weaving

**Cheryl had a new piece of walnut/sumi sink art lettered in pointed pen, a handmade watercolor paper from India-Khadi

**Kimmie brought a piece lettered in the Suzie Berringer style

**Tom lettered Proverbs 17

**Jacque did a watercolor from a class at the senior center with a quote by Thoreau

**Lynn did a sink art background lettered in a Mike Kesig style

**Christi did a blue and white piece with a Robert Frost poem

**Sherry did a quote with Fintec ink

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**Cyndi did a great job of presented flourishing to the group

Meeting Minutes 13 January 2026

 Meeting Minutes 13 January 2026

Pointed Pen Round Robin with TJ/Sherry/Candy

18 were present-including 2 guests

 

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed a guest of TJ’s, Sandy Paulton, and David, who found us doing a google search!

**We were reminded our annual dues of $30 should be paid in February.

**Board elections will be help next month.  Anyone wishing to run for a position should let Cyndi Haworth know.

**We are planning to select pages for a calendar we hope to print as a means of generating some funds for the guild.  We need to figure out the dimensions before we give the assignment.

**St. Michael’s Catholic church is taking a bus trip to Collegeville, MN August 2-7, 2026 to see the St. John’s Bible in person.  The cost is $1300.00 with a $400.00 deposit due by Jan 16 if anyone would like to join them.  Tom and his wife have signed up.

**A list of monthly meeting topics was available for us to take home.

**Nancy Anderson has agreed to chair the birthday/card committee.  She passed around a monthly sign-up sheet for us to send cards to guild members.

 

 

Show & Share:

**TJ brought a pointed pen piece her friend from Germany sent. 

**Tom had 5 pages of his Foundational Proverb, and 4 older models of oblique nib holders.

**Anne finished a little booklet she started in Suzanne Moore’s class.

**Sherry had a bamboo-themed card, a couple of marbled cards, and a framed piece-Secrets of love.

**Jacque brought a sketch and lettered piece-Nowhere Man.

**Nancy brought a piece lettered in Italic with a gouache painting background.

**Lynn brought a beautiful copy of the Gift of the Magi lettered by Michael Neugebauer.

 

 

Evening Presentation:

**The design of the evening was to give everyone a chance to try different papers, nibs, and inks as we enter into a yearlong study in Pointed Pen.  TJ’s table gave everyone a chance to try out different point pen nibs and holders to see which ones they liked best. Sherry’s table tried different papers to demonstrate the importance of a smooth surface, and Candy had a variety of inks and gouaches for folks to try. 

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