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Liam Wins 2010's First Artist of the Month

Our first budding artist for 2010 is Liam, with his beautiful boat named "Rain Bow".  This boat really caught our eye for multiple reasons.  The first being the really neat vertical stripes on the sails and the horizontal stripes on the hull.  He managed to make four colors look like more with his consistent color patterns.

The other aspect we loved was the way he colored SCOTT by outlining the interior with read, yellow, then green and coloring the rest in with blue.  It just really stood out amongst the over 30 sailboats that were colored during the Holiday vacation when the dealership was filled with kids.

Way to go Liam and congratulations for being the Sconda Artist of the Month for January!

While you and your kids are in for sales or service, make sure they grab one of the free coloring books and crayon 4-packs at the receptionist desk or in the Scott Kids Spot.  It will help them pass the time and they could win the much sought after Sconda Artist of the Month Award.

Athina Wins December Artist of the Month

With the winter school break upon us there was a bevy of sailboat beauties to choose from for this December's artist of the month.  There were easily five very well done and creative boats, but Athina's creation, named "funbolya" came out as the big winner.

Her stripped Scott sailboat had a unique patterned design that was a first in the well over 1000 colorings that we have received thus far.  Athina's attention to detail and clean lines really allowed her boat to stand out above all others.

Some other boats in contention were holiday themed, colored in florescent markers and one even added a spinnaker, which was a great touch.

While you and your kids are in for sales or service, make sure they grab one of the free coloring books and crayon 4-packs at the receptionist desk or in the Scott Kids Spot.  It will help them pass the time and they could win the much sought after Sconda Artist of the Month Award.

Nov. Artist of the Month - AJ's "Sea Sailer"

November's Artist of the Month is a real fun one.  AJ's "Sea Sailer" caught our eye due to its unique style.  The "Sea Sailer" is much more abstract than it's AOTM predecessors and that's what we liked.  AJ took a risk and it paid off.

We particularly liked what appears to almost be a shadow of the mast and sails (in blue with green outline) on the sail of the actual boat.  The jagged waves and great use of all four colors on the SCOTT was also a key part of the winning combination.

If your kids come in for sales or service make sure they pick up one of the free coloring book and crayon packs at the receptionist desk or in the Scott Kids Spot.  It will help them pass the time and they could win the prestigious Sconda Artist of the Month Award.

Jay's "Blue Scott" named Artist of the Month

Way to go Jay!  Your Scott Sailboat, named "Blue Scott", was clean, simple and well done.  We could tell that you really took your time and thought about each color and design element that you implemented.  The red airplane was a great touch. 

Keep on coloring Jay and congratulations on becoming the Sconda Artist of the Month for October.

If your child loves to color bring them to Scott Honda for your next service or sales appointment.  Every kid gets a complementary coloring book and 4 pack of crayons to help them pass the time.  We even have a desk just for them in our Scott Kids Spot where they can color without interruption for their chance to be  Artist of the Month.

September Artist of the Month is Michelle, Way to Go!

It's that time again, time for Artist of the Month, or AOTM for those in the know.

I narrowed down this months great colorings to the top three, but they were all so good I had to get a panel judges to pick the winner.   Without hesitation they unanimously chose "Circle Boat" colored by Michelle.  

"I love the circles," said Administrative Assistant and AOTM Judge, Sara Pyfer.  "No one has ever colored one like this before."

Our other judge, Assistant Accounting Manager, Jeanette Winters agreed, "This one is awesome," she exclaimed, pointing at Michelle's masterpiece.

I had to concur, so congratulations Michelle and remember "Keep on Coloring!"

Artist of the Month: Congratulations Andrew, Great Job!

Our Artist of the Month for August is Andrew G., an 11-year-old from West Chester, who will be a 5th grader at Pocopson Elementary School this September.

What sealed the deal for Andrew was the detailed outlining of his sailboat and the "Scott", followed by the nice, soft coloring of the interior of those same areas.  His well placed wave, fish and island were a great touch too!

I think this winner will start a new trend in the colorings of our well known logo amongst the youngest Scott Honda customers. 

I have also noticed a new theme, we now have some adults submitting their colorings well, sorry adults you can't win AOTM if you are over 13...but you all did a wonderful job :)

Artist of the Month: 1st Brother & Sister Co-winners

Congratulations to Roman and Leilani, our first Brother and Sister Co-winners of Artist of the Month for June.  With our new "Scott Kids Spot" in full swing the number of sailboat colorings has increased dramatically, making the competition even tougher, but the sibling duo really did a great job and took the top honor.

Roman named his boat "Redstar" and had a great ocean, sunset and stripped sails, while Leilani, the younger sister, colored "Sunny Boat" which has a rainbow, a fun sun and a blue background.

There were a couple sailboat colorings that were very close to winning and will be in contention this month and there are already some great that have been put up in the first half of July.

On a side note, the brand new Scott Honda Coloring Book 2.0, a.k.a. the Sconda Fun Book came back from the printers with the pages all in the wrong order, so needless to say they were sent right back to the printer and the correct ones should be hitting the "Scott Kids Spot" any day now, so stay tuned and thanks for coloring!

New Sconda Artist of the Month Picked

For the first time ever we have a 2-time winner of Artist of the Month.  Congratulations to Madison A., for achieving this great accomplishment.  Madison has been our best artist thus far and she could win this coveted award many more times, but we have to be fair to all of our artists.

Madison, age 11, has about 3 more sailboats hanging on the "Wall of Fame" that are very well done. She won a prize pack from Sconda for winning twice and I sent her a note encouraging her to keep at with her wonderful artistic abilities.

We actually had a customer ask our receptionist, "Who picks the Artist of the Month?", because she didn't think one of the winners was that great and that Scott Honda should "get serious about picking these winners"...true story.

Well, naturally I got a little defensive for our budding Bob Ross's and I decided I should make a note on each previous winners sailboat so people can really see how great all of the winners have been.  The prior winners now have a little yellow square in the corner of their masterpiece that reads "Previous Artist of the Month Winner"

We have had over 300 colorings done and one of those could cause a little controversy.  Now my wife can verify that I had conversations with people, prior to this particular coloring, about the slurred pronunciation of our wonderful dealership, hence "Sconda". But this drawing, by a young man named Jason, was the first I know of to put Sconda in writing.  He even explained it at the top...just great stuff. If anyone knows who this young man is, please let us know, he deserves a Scott Honda sweatshirt for his genius work.