Christa uses gilding to enhance mood and add richness to almost any medium. She uses acrylics, charcoal and handmade ink pens.
 
Christa studied art in South Africa and was co-owner of an art gallery, managing her own corporate promotional 
business including stationery design and gilding of corporate awards.

She has spent the last twelve years in Australia: Darwin, Gladstone and now Brisbane.

See Christa's work online at her website

Objective:

Christa filled our Sunday with creative pages for our mini Art Journal. 

We started with the shimmering relief gilded cover and then added pages of colour and creative lines combined with tiny continuous drawings and notes of the day.

Materials

• A few sheets of good Watercolour paper 300gms - A3 size
• Any Ink - Art Spectrum, Bombay, Indian Ink, Ecoline
• White Gouache
• A few big flat-tip watercolour brushes (2cm + in width)
• Backing board and masking tape, slightly bigger than A3
• Optional water soluble graphite or watercolour pencil
• One big bull-nose clip about 5cm wide to hold the spine of your mini Art Book

Christa provided:

• Eko-art Pens
• Gold Leaf and Size
• Patina and Thinners
• Wood Glue
• Guillotine

To Purchase:

• Christia has her Eco-Art-Pens available for purchase on her website.