Meeting Minutes 12 Jan 2021
16 present
Leslie Boehm/Sally Liverman- Timothy Botts’ Masking
Welcome & Announcements:
**Our annual dues of $30 are due in February.
**The guild roster was passed around to double-check our information.
**Leslie passed around the Birthday Card list.
**Michael Sull’s American Cursive Handwriting Self-Study Workbook and Curriculum, including his handouts, can be found in the library.
**Candy gave us an update on a few of our members: Betsy Wintermute has Covid, Kathy Sullivan’s dad died recently, and Kim Hetherington is being treated for Leukemia.
Library Book Review:
**Kimmi brought two books from home she uses for inspiration. She found Clover Robin, the author of Cut Paper Pictures, originally on Pinterest. The book shows lots of ways to turn photos and art into personalized art. Maira Kulman’s The Principles of Uncertainty was filled with drawings and funky portratis Kimmi loves to emulate. I was fun to see what stirs Kimmi’s creativity!
Show & Share:
**Ceclia showed us the Christmas card she made for family and a few friends along with a lovely tea towel. She did the lettering and background and sent it off to Spoonflower, the fabric design company she uses.
**Carole brought two cards she lettered Strength and Gratitude in black brush.
**Sally showed us Timothy Botts’ original “Thanks” he did in class at IAMPETH in 2019.
**Kimmi had the cutest diorama she made in a small box for her grandson with a turtle, fish, and beaver. She lettered her thoughts next to a gnome with a broad edged pen in funky script. She also lettered 3 small pieces on long slender candle bags and an assortment of gift card holders with whimsical art to go with her funky letters, and…the tiny atravel journal she took to Egypt and Jordan in 2019.
**Karen used Carolingian she learned from Reggie’s recent online class to letter a Peter Marshall quote.
Evening Presentation:
**Sally and Leslie teamed up to introduce us to the masking techniques Timothy Botts presented in the class he taught in Denver at IAMPETH in 2019. Leslie used the overhead to show us a variety of examples from books she brought. We were free to look at the pages she marked to help with ideas, and she walked around to make sure we were understanding what to do and to encourage us as we worked.
Sally had us get both of our sheets of watercolor paper and wet the back sides of them. She instructed us to use strips of green masking tape to create a pattern or random shapes with it before washing over it with gouache or watercolor. After it was dry, we were to take the tape off revealing the white paper behind it before lettering something on top. Sally used the time we had very well by toggling back and forth between sheets so that as one was drying, we could work on the other. In the end, we should have been able to go home with two mostly finished projects!
