BAGUIO CITY, Philippines—If you see this young accounting graduate looking intently at a flat river pebble along the road, pray that she pick it up.

Christine Faye Rosete, 22, paints replicas of Michelangelo, Gustav Klimt, Picasso, Van Gogh, Modigliani and Botticelli on flat pebbles that fit in her palm.

The details are so vivid that one would easily recognize Botticelli’s Venus on a two-inch pebble.

Rosete doesn’t use magnifying glasses to paint on the stones and finishes one usually in a day.

“I do this when I’m bored with my studies,” she says. Rosete has just taken her accountancy board examination so she now has more time to paint.

The ease with which she finishes these mini-marvels she owes to her genes. She is the fourth of five children of painter Romeo Rosete Sr., who sired five children who are as equally talented as he is.

Christine Faye Rosete won top prizes in the 1996 Guhit Bulilit contest sponsored by Coca-Cola Phils., the 1999 Caltex Science Art Award and a 2000 Jollibee writing and drawing contest.

She used the college scholarship that came with her Guhit Bulilit prize to obtain an accounting degree at the Saint Louis University here.

While at SLU, she was undetected in the art radar. “No one among my classmates knew I can paint,” she says.

Her eldest brother, Romeo Jr., used to paint religious figures on pebbles and that was what probably struck her when she picked a river pebble and painted on it in 2005.

Her first pebble paintings were flowers. These she gave away to high school friends who gave her more pebbles in return for more paintings.

She says she has no doubt she will return to painting on canvas. “But I need to have a fixed income, so that this would be more of a hobby,” she says.