Showing posts with label Excerpts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excerpts. Show all posts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

And the Winnah Is

And the winnah is . . .


©2010 P Scarborough   Treasure  5x7 oil
As you recall, Dear Reader, I promised to draw a name out of my special hat to win the lovely little painting I created last Sunday, 10-10-10.  Painted to use as my holiday card, I thought it would be cool to celebrate this once in a lifetime date with a little Free Gimme.  All you had to do was comment, and you were in the running. 

Are you ready . . .?

After exhaustively cutting up names and putting them into a hat . . .

and washing my hands . . .

and closing my eyes tightly . . .

oh, so tightly . . .

pinching my thumb and forefinger ever so gently . . .

around a slip of paper that said . . .

Lynne!!  Lynne, thanks so much for stopping by my blog and commenting.  Email me with directions for mailing and I'll carefully wrap this little jewel up and send it to you just in time for the holidays. 

As for the rest of you, dear friends, thanks so much for participating.  There is still time to view "Excerpts", showing at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney for another month.  In November I will be participating in an exhibit titled "6x6", featuring 6 terrific artists at the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, Ne.


©2010 P Scarborough  Ceding the Day  9x12 oil 
Featured at the Burkholder Project, Lincoln, Ne., in  November, 2010

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Book Report



My Excerpts exhibit is up and looks fabulous if I do say so myself.
Thanks so much to HH, and Ernie of Good Samaritan Hospital  for making it so easy. 

There's still a month left of summer and enough time to squeeze in one more really good read.
"The Forger's Spell", by Edward Dolnick, is the true story of the greatest art hoax of the 20th century.  Part mystery, part history and part psychology class, this is one of the best books I've read in a long time.  Featuring Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch forger and Hitler's right hand man, Hermann Goering, "The Forger's Spell" is mesmerizing and entertaining.  This is not a book that will end up collecting dust on the bedside table.

Any books you'd like to add to the reading list?