Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs

Crystal Childs was born and raised in Western Massachusetts and has always had a passion for art. Today, Crystal is a Graphic Designer, Artist, Face Painter and Art Instructor.

She enjoys all aspects of art and is inspired by nature. Crystal’s favorite mediums are watercolor, acrylics, pen and colored pencils.

Favorite quote:

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“I believe that creating art should be a stress-free, enjoyable experience and I find that it allows me to forget everything that is going on in the world. In art, one mistake could turn out to be a masterpiece.”

- Crystal

Visit Crystal Childs’ Website
Email: crystaljchilds@gmail.com

Nancy Monkley

Nancy Monkley

Nancy Monkley

Nancy Monkley

Nancy Monkley

Nancy Monkley

Nancy is an accomplished artist originally from Worcester, Massachusetts and a graduate of the School Of The Worcester Art Museum. Over the years, she has achieved understudy work with a variety of commercial artists in Massachusetts and St.Louis, Missouri. For a number of years, Nancy has taught drawing and painting techniques to children and adults.

“I generally work on a commissioned basis selling work throughout the States and Europe”.

Today she resides in her Southwick home with her husband Ray working and teaching in her studio and exhibiting her work.

“I am primarily a portrait artist working in oils or fine detailed drawings, in black & white or color. Her eye for detail are what make her portraits captivating. I never release a painting until I am satisfied that I have captured the exact representation of my subject”.

Nancy Monkley
An oil portrait generally takes 2 weeks, working from a variety of good quality photos. The customer has the option of using their own photos or we will work with you and take the photos. Landscapes & Seascapes, Still life and Animals are also part of her repertoire of subject matter.

Or by phone at: 413-627-3330

Lucinda Tavernise

Lucinda Tavernise

Lucinda Tavernise

“The act of painting, for me, brings to life and elevates a sensual and spiritual relationship between me and the subject I paint. I get to self indulge by arresting Time, reveling in sensations derived from intimately feeling every nook and cranny, sniffing every organic twist and turn, paying attention to minute shifts of hue. I become at once a voyeur, creator and storyteller, laying out a banquet of discovered pleasures.”

- Lucinda Tavernise

For more artwork and information, contact Lucinda Tavernise
Email: Cindy@LucindaTavernise.com
Visit Lucinda Tavernise’s Website.

Christine V. Baran

Christine V. Baran

Christine V. Baran

Christine V. Baran

Christine is currently employed as a graphic designer at Southwoods Printing and Magazine in Southwick, Massachusetts.

Contact Christy

ChristysArtandMore@gmail.com

or visit her website www.ChristysArtandMore.com

Carol Chandler

Carol Chandler

Carol Chandler

Contact Carol

For more information about Carol’s paintings, visit her blog or contact her by phone or email.

413-667-8760 • carolpsk@hotmail.com
4 Stanton Avenue, Huntington, MA 01050

Visit Carol Chandler’s Website

Laurie Hiers

Laurie Hiers

Laurie Hiers

Laurie specializes in pet portraits, portraits of people, and unique homes. She has done over 200 commissions to date plus many other paintings. Her pictures are generally 16” x 20”, matted, ready to frame.

She has painted on commission everything from a particular hole from a golf course in Maine, many lovely turn-of-the-century houses, a series of Granville historical buildings, numerous cats and dogs, horses and riders, a bear and a moose – the last commissioned by a taxidermist, and even a bookcover.

John C. Walker

John C. Walker

John C. Walker

John Walker has spent more than forty years in the professional practice of landscape architecture, including the last thirst years as a sole practitioner with his office in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Since retiring in 2000, he has devoted much of his free time experiencing and learning the rewards and frustrations of the medium of watercolor.

He has taken a series of watercolor classes offered by West Hartford Art League, as well as with the award-winning painter, John Rossini. This process has marked his attempt to transition from forty years of using graphite, ink and magic markers for presenting his thoughts, ideas, and graphic images, to the more difficult but very rewarding fine art of watercolor painting.

His paintings have been juried into the annual watercolor shows of the Connecticut Watercolor Society as well as other juried shows in western Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is a member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society and the Avon Art Association.

Painting in a representational style, he seeks to develop graphic presentations of his observation of and deep appreciation for the typical New England landscape, all strongly influences by his many years of practice as a landscape architect.

Jennifer Bruno

Jennifer Bruno

Jennifer Bruno

Jennifer Bruno

Jennifer Bruno

Jennifer Bruno

My name is Jennifer Bruno and I am an emerging artist. I have lived in Southwick, Ma all my life and currently live here with my husband and two teenage sons. I’ve always loved art and have been recently becoming involved with in the art community. Last April I participated in my first juried fine art show hosted by the Southwick Cultural Council and it was quite a success! I will be exhibiting my art work in Northampton, MA, in a new gallery that will be opening the first weekend in June all summer. I will be posting new artwork weekly and upcoming events with details about the new gallery in Northampton, MA. on my web site. Please feel free email me if you have any questions or would like to inquire about any of the paintings I display.

Obituary For Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn’t always fair, and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a class mate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little on her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common  Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.
He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I’m a Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.