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Painting and not drawing with coal, is similar to doing black and white photographs. This portrait was done of my sister Liz and it is different to painting it with colour. You get down to the essentials of the form and volume of the face. It is like

These photos are for the family as we celebrated Tat's birthday last Sunday. You will notice other expressions on Mahé's face, as he is getting older!

Just a few photos taken at various times to keep us going till spring arrives!

It was Sunday the 7th and it was a beautiful sunny day. The sky was so blue and not a cloud in the sky. These photos are just my impressions along the way!

These were taken two days ago in my garden. I have taken several photos of them before, but of course one always wants to do better! I have combined them as well and some of the iris have a yellow background which is the mimosa blurred. I thought the

This is probably the most difficult portrait I have done. It was not done with a photo (I would have got a much better one!) but by looking at myself in the mirror. The difficulty is that one cannot paint any time. You have to choose the same time every

We have never seen so much snow in the cote d'azur since we have been living here. It was very exciting to see the mimosa, olives, palm trees etc in the snow! The next day, it was all gone!

And this is what I did - take photos of the town of Menton. I was lucky with the weather, as it is doing nothing but rain, or very cloudy!

These photos were terribly difficult to take, as people just walked in the front of you, or else they pushed you accidently, etc. There were so many people there, that it was difficult to even see the carnival. What is interesting, is that this carnival