ChristineBetts


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ChristineBetts
Age: 38
City: Gold Coast
Country: Australia
Joined: Sep 2008


Christine Betts is a Gold Coast based artist, mother and wife. Mostly self taught, Christine is an emerging artist with interests and subject matter ranging from Travel, Architecture and Tourism. Influenced by the work of Edward Hopper and Jeffrey Smart, she is fascinated by light and shadow.

See my work Two Hands/One Heart in this online exhibition. Thanks to Sarah Bentvelzen for choosing my work for this exhibition.

Groups

ChristineBetts hosts Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" and The Gold Coast and is a member of ! ♥♥All About Hearts♥♥ !, ! ♦♣♠♥Ȃll Things Black ♥♠♣♦ !, Complex Simplicity of Art, ! 100% !, ! Creative Writing & Poetry !, "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 photo per 24 hrs; 3 drawings or paintings per 24 hrs, "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), *A Beautiful Blur, A Fascinating Purple , A Spiritual Walk, Abstract Art, Abstract Realism, Acrylic Painting, All About Boating, All About Flowers, All New Improved Seascapes [only upload one per day], All That is Nature (Photography Only), All the Colors of the Rainbow, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alternative Christmas Images, Amateur Photographers' Association, aqua, lime or indigo, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, Art and Stories Made For Children, Art Inspired by Dreams, Artistic Libation ~ Spirits In Art, As Is, Aussie Bush Paintings, Australia's Great Coastline, Australian Bush ☼ (aspects of Landscapes - ie No Macros please!), Australian Contemporary Photography, Australian Landmarks and Icons, Australian Travel Photography and Writing - 1 a day, AW Welcome Center, Back In Black ( sorry~NO PHOTOGRAPHY), Beach Art, Beige is death!, Black and White Photography, Both Sides Now, Brisbane ~ South East QLD, Buddha, Capital cities of the World , Cards for Everyday (With words or Collage style) , Cards For Sale (Must have writing on them), Cards: Best of Your Best, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Castle Magic, Challenge Café, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: PINK [No Flowers]), Colors of Water, Come Fly With Me!!, Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Professional Painters and Sculptors, Creative Spirits of Queensland , Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Dawn and Dusk Light, Dimensions, Dirty Filthy Art: Charcoal, Ebony and Ivory, European Everyday Life (add the place!), Exotic Thailand , Faded Seaside Glamour, Fine Arts, First Things, Freedom to Shine, French Architecture , Friends of RedBubble, Full Frontal Facades, Gateways, Giraffes- the long and tall of it!, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Gorgeous Flower Cards, Green!, Hand drawn or painted vehicles, Hand painted or drawn Buildings and architecture, Hands, Images & Ideas, Imaginative Realism, Impressionism Café, Impressionist Art, In the Pink 50% pink, in-between, Japanfluence, Landscape Painting, Layered with Texture, Life Session Expressions, Light and Reflection 1/24, Live, Love, Dream: , LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Lost in Space [75% Negative Space], Maps Maps Maps, Masterpiece: Art, Masterpiece: Photography, Moms 4 Art, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Nature's Wonders, Nautical, New South Wales Photography, Nirvana (1 images per day and 1 written per day), Oil Painting, One Single Flower On Show.. 2 Photo's per day, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Outsiders, Painters In Modern Times, Paris, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Personal Meaning Photography, Photo-Zen, Photographic France, Queensland, Realist Paintings About Water, Realist Traditional Art, RedBubble Nude, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Reflectivity, Room With A View, SEA, Seachanges, SEAGULLS, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Shifting Sands, Spiritual Art, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Streetscapes, Sunrise, Sunset, That One Great Shot, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Artistic Nude, The Eyes Have It, The Greatest View in the World, The Healing Journey, The true beauty, The Urban Environment, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, This is England, Travel and Adventure, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Tropical Art, UK to Australia and Back, Unique Buildings Of The World, Valentines and Hearts, Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Waves, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Windows and Doors, Woman Appreciation and Your Magic PLACE.

Journal Entries

My Blog

Posted 26 days ago, 2 comments so far.

Original Art for sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 2 months ago, 3 comments so far.

ANOTHER 2 SALES!!!

Posted 4 months ago, 15 comments so far.

lessons learned about art

Posted 6 months ago, 20 comments so far.

a lovely quote that gets you thinking

Posted 7 months ago, 4 comments so far.

copyright issue with my photo of the Eiffel Tower at night

Posted 7 months ago, 86 comments so far.

my B.A.G....

Posted 7 months ago, 3 comments so far.

Writing

Pre-Epic Edit Prologue to my novel 'From there to here: via Paris'

I fell in love with Paris a long time ago. (The city, I mean, not the girl in the magazines who forgets to wear knickers sometimes).

I Want to be BIG!

Little One wants to be Big, but she might just learn to be happy with little after all!

The War Hero

In 1939, you knew what was going to kill you, now it was anyone’s guess.

mother and son road trip

mother and son campervan trip down the beautiful coast of NSW!

falling in love

signing my name like I’m falling in love / practising my signature over and over again / to get it perfect like I’ve fallen in love with a boy and I want to marry him / but it’…

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