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I spent Christmas and the New Year in England with my family and these are just some of the pics I took inspite of the very rainy weather!

A BIG THANK you all my friends and contacts on Ipernity for all your visits on my site. You all have given me so much pleasure during the last 4 or is it 5 years! I have made so many friends, some of which left and others that are loyal to me! I

This is my first effort on Pixelmator (which is like photoshop) on my mac. It will allow me to do my art in my photography and will open up a new world for me! I am new to this, but I will learn with time. Hope you like it! Please criticize whenever you

It started off really bad, but then changed into something I have never experienced before. The colours were out of this world - just gold and blue. Wished you were with me too! I was on my own on the beach.

Another pastel! This time a flower. I have already painted these before, but this time it is enormous. The canvas is 62 X 48 cms, so you can imagine. The hardest part is to draw it and then try to give it the delicateness of a flower! It took 12 hours to

This was not an easy one to do. I found it very difficult to find the right colours to make it work. Doing a sunrise needs a lot of contrast and nerves to put the dark colours on! I always wanted to do a sunset or a sunrise (maybe because I go so often to

These are just a few of my photos from the carnival of Nice. I haven't been to the lemon festival in Menton yet, but maybe in the weekend. Hope you enjoy them!

I won't be very active on the site for a few days as I need a break. I'm just doing too much recently and am not feeling too good at present. Will come back as soon as I feel better.

It was a terrible cold and I felt lousy, but now it's all behind me. I'm happy to get back to my routine.

I took these pics with my I-phone, as that's all I had! I wanted to go back, but got ill and the weather was bad. So I put them up anyway,to give you an idea as to how it is! Hope you like them!

This is my latest painting of dusk in Menton. I loved to bring out the various shades of blue and pink in this painting. I enjoyed painting it, and I hope you like it too!

As the weather has been bad, I just wanted to try out these pics in the kitchen! What do you think?

I have put up a painting site on facebook, if anyone would like to check it out. Please be free to "like" my page if you like it!!! It's: www.facebook.com/pages/Christine-Valin-P aintings/484479568278209

I just keep dreaming of the place where I was so happy and so had to paint this one. Hope you like it!

This is my latest painting.Hope you like it! I welcome all your critics, as this is important to me. Have a nice Easter!

This is my first still life except for those I did in school. I put in the I Phone to show our times! What do you think?

You can imagine why I had this idea. I've spent weeks taking photos of anemone and looking at the center of them. I had to express the beauty of these flowers! In any case, it is completely different to what I have done before. Hope you like it!

I went out for sunrise, but there were so many clouds, that the sun never came out! I was disappointed, but I got lots of atmospheric pics instead which I love and makes a change!Hope you like them too!

I had the pleasure of visiting this private garden which is a real jewel. I went too early to get good photos, but I spent two hours of magic. One has to go there to feel this magic! I hope I can give a little bit of this magic to you through these

I'm sorry if I annoy anyone with the new water mark I put on my pics, but I try to be very discrete about it. As I put up loads on the web, I feel I have to protect them.

This is my latest still life. I want people to be aware of healthy eating and hence did this painting. These are all the ingredients that go into the dish called Ratatouille. I think the name is a funny one! As usual I welcome your comments and critics!

This is a pastel and hence very difficult technically to do! I spent hours on it, to give the world the right impression of who I am! I look a lot younger of course, as I have deleted the wrinkles. One can do that in art. One can't in a photograph! I hope

I didn't have time to paint, so did this drawing of Mahé. He looks a bit older than he is, but I like the expresion in his face! Please leave your critics.

This is my latest pastel. It wasn't easy with the perspective and a lot of work. As usual, your critics are very welcome!

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I am preparing for my painting exhibition in Castellar from the 7th of September to the 5th October. If anyone is around here at these dates, please do not hesitate to visit. I will be there every afternoon except Mondays. I will be happy to meet you. Due

This is my latest figure in clay. Hope you like it!

Just a few photos to give you an idea as to how it was. I was really happy at the atmosphere and we spent a lovely evening!

I never thought I would do this one day, but I've made up my mind now. I want to concentrate on doing sculpture in clay and plaster. This is a great challenge for me, but I need the time. So I have decided to go slow on the photography. I'm so sorry about

Thank you all for your visits and beautiful comments. I'm so sorry I cannot reply to you individualy, but I do appreciate your comments and read every one of them. Have a nice week my friends!

I just want to wish you all peace and all you want for the New Year. I will be going away for a couple of weeks and so won't be active during this time? Just enjoy yourselves!

While I'm away, if you like my work, why don't you check out my new site on Google+ www.christinevalin.besttopphotographer.c om It will give you an idea of some of my best work for the last 5 years.