Monthly Meetings

Start the year off right with Romans taught by Jane Hales

Supplies to bring:

Nib holder and Nibs: – Speedball B-4 or B-5, C-4, Mitchell 2 1/2 or 3 (optional, but may be useful)

Handouts, Grid pad, Pencil, Eraser, Plain paper, Soft lead colored pencil (optional), small size pigma pen (optional)

Hard surface (plexi-glass, masonite, or cutting board) to tape down a 10″ x 12.5″ paper

Blue painter’s tape 1″ wide

Scissors

Watercolors – Prang is fine

Brushes – 1″ or larger and a small size (4, 6, or 8 round)

Toothbrush for spattering

Exacto knife (optional)

Small spray bottle (optional)

Water Container

Paper Towels

Don’t forget to print your handouts and bring them with you!

Saturday, November 8th – Christmas Compendium

Supply List for Attendees

Weathergrams

1- Broad Edge Nibs for Italic

2- Waterproof Ink – Black and Red

Woven Together with Love

3- Glue Stick or Zig Glue Pen*

4- Fun Paper Scraps cut in about ¼” strips.

5- Also  several larger scraps about 4 to 5 inches square.  

(Christmas colors can be fun. Gold and silver too)

*highly recommended

Vintage Cookie Cutter Chains

Pencil

Scissors

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Examples of what we’ll be making:

Sharing the Christmas Spirit with Handmade Cards

Along with creating Christmas Cards, we will make some cards to donate to a special Homeless Youth Center in the area for kids who might have never received a handmade Christmas Card. Please bring any excess homemade Christmas Cards you might have to add to what we donate. Cards can have uplifting messages. They don’t need to be signed, but if you do sign them, please use only your first name.

We will have a light lunch of soup, salad, and bread. 

Compendium is free for members.

Guests are $5 each. Ages 12 and up.

Saturday, October 18th – Legend (pronounced Leg-und) a modern black letter designed by Koch and presented by, our own, Faye Maxfield

Supplies List: C-2 nib, ink, a graph pad, scissors, ruler, pencil, blue stick or double stick tape, (must have) bone folder or plastic knife or table knife, X-acto (for picky people), and a white writing tool, maybe a Black marker too

Faye will bring everything for a little Halloween project. Not quite a card or a book.

Handouts: Legend letters –

Saturday, September 20th – Brush Lettering by Sylvia Bunker

Handouts:

• Brush Lettering Supplies
• Brush Lettering Sample

Saturday, June 21st – Chancery Script by Liz Margetts

Our very own Liz Margetts will be instructing us on Chancery script. It is also know as Italic Script. It is a popular and elegant style of calligraphy developed during the Italian Renaissance. Chancery Script is characterized by its slightly sloped, semi-cursive letterforms and is a great choice for beginners due to its beautiful simplicity and legibility. 

Liz has been lettering for over 40 years. She is a great instructor and has taught at the Community College, at our guild meetings and done individual instruction. We are very pleased to be able to learn from her.

If time permits, we will be making a booklet out of a file folder with several pages for taking notes or putting down ideas for an exhibit piece.

Supplies to bring: 

• Printed  Handouts –
• Speedball C-2 nib & holder
• ink
  • such as walnut ink or Higgins Eternal
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Paper towels
• water container
• apron

Saturday, May 17th – Modern Carolingian by Carole Taylor

Our own irrepressible Carole Taylor, will be our instructor. Carole will teach Carolingian (quite appropriate, I do believe). This is such a fun and very interesting hand, so come prepared to learn and have a great time. Carole will also show us how to make a fun book after our Carolingian lesson.

Please Bring:

• C-2 Speedball pen or equivalent
• Smaller nib–your choice
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Glue stick
• Ink – your choice, but make sure that it does not feather on the paper you use
• Paper – a grid pad (if ink doesn’t feather), or other paper that suits you.
  (remember that the paper is used to ‘learn’ the alphabet and need not be expensive, but in order to make fine entrance and exit strokes, be sure that it works well with your ink.)
• Scissors
• Apron
• Handouts

Handouts

Saturday, March 22nd – Uncial by Mary Ellen Ross

Our March Meeting will be devoted to learning or reviewing the Uncial Alphabet 

 MARY ELLEN ROSS will be teaching this month, and this will be a treat!!

Uncial is a favorite of many calligraphers.  Sheila Waters enjoyed the “simplicity and the speedy rhythme of the early letters.” Annie Cicale states in her book, The Art and Craft of Hand Lettering, “The wide open shapes of Uncial make it very legible and suprisingly adaptabele to modern use, even though it combines forms that don’t conform to the rules of modern alphabet design.”

Be sure to come on Saturday  March 22, to enjoy learning and using this interesting and versatile alphabet!  Be sure to bring the Handouts!!

The Handouts for this March Meeting contain the list of supplies you need to bring, in addition to the examplars and other helps for learning Uncial.

Please go to the 2025 Handouts tab at the top of this page and print out the March handouts to use in this meeting.  

You will need the handouts for our Saturday Meeting!

We will begin our meeting with Lee Sim teaching us about the Batarde alphabet.  He will instruct us on how to letter out this elegant hand.  “Batarde is the French equivalent of the English Secretary or the German Fraktur hands.”  It originated in the late 13th century. 

After the break, we will once again focus on Lee as he teaches just how to construct the Astounding Scroll Box invented by Lee, himself.

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We are so fortunate to have Melissa Esplin for our teacher.  We will be learning “Modern Calligraphy”using a pointed nib.

Those who are familiar with Melissa and her beautiful pointed pen calligraphy know we are in for a treat! 

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