Articles by Christine Valin

It was so cloudy, but I wanted to go into town to take photos. I found the light and followed it!

These were taken last night from my balcony. The light was magnifiique!

It was so beautiful to see Mahé doing this and it gave me such pleasure to take these photos of him!

Les 4 saisons. Pendant toute la carrière artistique de Christine, ses tableaux ont représenté ce qu’elle aimait le plus : la beauté, beauté des fleurs, des paysages ….. Elle a également réalisé de nombreux portraits qui ne sont terminés que lorsque ils expriment totalement la personnalité du sujet. Quatre tableaux, cependant, sont nés de son imagination : Printemps, Eté, Automne et Hiver et qui en fait représentent les « saisons » de la vie de Christine. Printemps : Cette…

The Four Seasons Spring : I did the four seasons, as I wanted to, but they are also the seasons of my life. The young girl is situated in a big anemone, which is one of the first flowers that grow in my garden in spring. The little girl has ringlets (I had them when I was a girl) and a romantic dress (we were dressed like this when I was a kid). She has no shoes, as we used to play without shoes when we were kids, as we lived in India(the weather being so hot) She is looki…

Mimosa and sun in January is such a pleasure. I'm just plain lucky to live where I do! This is dedicated to my ipernity friend Mimosa! I was thinking of her when I took these photos yesterday.

It was not really bad, but the waves were enormous for our side of the world. I was lucky to have been there! Which one do you like the best?

I would like to thank all my visitors who came to see my paintings and leave such lovely comments for me. I have never got so much feed back. This gives me a lot of pleasure, so Thank you all! Thanks to Marcel for starting this off which gave me to idea to show them! There will be a few more and then I will stop, as I have painted about 250 of them, and I think that's a bit too much to show!!!

I'm showing you some of my pastels, as there are not many of you know I paint as well as take photographs. Actually, I have not been painting for some time, as I am concentrating on learning photography and find I don't have enough time to paint. If anyone is interested in buying, you can contact me. If you are interested in seeing more paintings, they are all on my site, in "albums" in various folders of water colour, tempera, oil, pastels, etc. Enjoy!

These flowers were shot in my garden this afternoon. It's really incredible how they grow this time of the year. I had to get my macro lens out, which I haven't used for a long time!! It made a nice change.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than when I can wander around and just take what I feel. This is what I did on christmas day!

I was there yesterday and this is what I saw!

I always love taking the decorations at the shopping mall in Monaco, so these are my impressions!

These were the latest photos I took of him at the bottom of the garden. He is the joy of my life!

I was looking out for dereliction pics and it was so interesting to see these old doors. They were most all locked, so I couldn't go inside. The village was full of these old houses, but now there are only four to six left, as they have been converted to more modern houses to live in. There will be more pics to come in the next couple of days!

It was a disappointing sunset as the sun was behind the clouds, but the atmosphere was fantastic and the cloud formation really impressive. I don't regret going!

Just odds and ends which attracted me while walking in the old town. It was quite an experience! And it made a change!

These were taken after the sunset, as it was dark and the lights were on!