Meeting Minutes 9 April 2024

 Meeting Minutes 9 Apr 2024

Accentuate the Negative Space’

22 were present-2 guests

 

Welcome & Announcements:

**In Sherry’s absence because she is ill, dues should be given to Candy.

**Christie Lee was in a car accident, so Candy passed around cards for us to sign for both girls.

**We welcomed Judy Ashton who came as Anne Dyer’s friend, and Nancy Anderson who moved from the Seattle area where she was a member of the Write-On Calligraphy Guild.

**We were asked to letter bookmarks at the Historical Center on Pikes Peak and 24^th during Territory Days. Six people are needed in total, two people each day from noon to 3:00 Saturday May 25, Sunday May 26, and Monday May 27.

 

Show & Share:

**Cyndi brought a flourished, floral heart Thank You on black paper.

**TJ made a Trading Card-Just Nuts About Boots!

**Kathy brought 2 Trading Cards, one filled with hearts, and the other about Animals.  She also had an oval piece with a sheep and lamb surrounded by leaves in each season, then surrounded with “To everything there is a season”. 

**Newcomer Nancy brought a foundational piece she lettered on a water-colored background. 

**Tom brought full pages of his daily lettering of Proverbs 3.

**Jacque made 3 appliqued Trading Cards with fun faces.

**Kate’s Trading Card with a grey background was lettered with Joy

**Leslie brought an envelope she received from the guild’s envelope exchange, and super cute water-colored popsicles she did with her granddaughter. 

**Cheryl’s Trading Card had a purple background with the outline of a flower done in black.

**Cecelia had 2 different Happy Birthday cards she lettered in a fun and funky style.

 

Evening Presentation:

**Lynn Friedberg’s exemplar had a few colorful words she lettered in black Uncial with bright accented shadowing. After a brief introduction to Uncial for the newer members, she asked us to write a 4-5 lettered word or name in Uncial before showing us how to lightly pencil in the white space on the ‘shadow’ side of each letter.  She showed us how to use a white or cream-colored pencil to facilitate blending the colors to come.  Next, she suggested adding a light-colored shadow just up to the pencil line.  The second color was to be a bit darker, with a third color to accentuate it all.  The results were really lovely.   

   

   

  

  

Lynn's Handout

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.

**Cheryl showed off an illuminated double-page she did in her Mahara journal for Randy Hasson's on-line "Layered Journal" class.

 

 

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.

Commissioned piece of Cheryl's

 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!