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Biography Christina combines a love of gardening and reverence of nature when creating her artwork. She feels the use of repetitive strokes in her time-intensive, detailed work to be very meditative. And although Christina works in many mediums all works are prepared on some kind of fine art paper which lends itself to an intimate art process. Christina is a member of The Nature's Artist Guild of Morton Arboretum, The American Society of Botanical Artist and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She has a certificate in Botanical Illustration from the Morton Arboretum and has completed coursework at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Christina resides in Wisconsin with her family and a menagerie of pets. She continues to enjoy gardening, reading, exploring and losing herself in her art.
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Demonstrates Art With Character Raphael used it, and so did Leonardo da Vinci. Instead of today's graphite pencil, they used precious metals - silver, gold, copper - to quickly sketch out ideas and preliminary outlines of paintings. Though it has been hundreds of years since the practice was common, a Lombard artist likes to think these "metalpoint" drawings have a special character to them. "Silverpoint tends to give itself a more intimate look," said nature artist Christina Roberts. "It begs you to look at it closer." Roberts has been depicting nature on paper with watercolors and colored pencils for years. Only in the last two years has she turned her delicate hand to the fine lines of silverpoint. Metalpoint techniques are much the same as regular sketching, with a few twists, Roberts said. First of all, one generally uses a hard surface, such as museum board, instead of paper or canvas. Second, the surface must be coated with a hard, slightly abrasive "ground" on which the metal can rub off. For a tip, one can use a piece of silver, gold or copper wire from a jewelry shop. The handle can be a number of devices designed to hold small files or bits, usually to be found at craft stores. There's also one more catch modern artists may not be used to: Once a line is drawn, it can't be erased. Of course, the upside to that is once a drawing is finished, it cannot be smudged. This is part of one of the best qualities of metalpoint drawings, Roberts said: They stand the test of time. The drawings do change color over the years as the metal tarnishes - the silver turning light brown and the copper taking on a greenish hue - but they do not fade.
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