***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – scroll down to see who won!***
The winner of this week’s giveaway can literally make that request. Because Swedish-born Virginia-based artist Erica Eriksdotter is giving away a commissioned painting worth up to $350. That’s right everyone, put on your fancy pants because soon you could be telling your friends smugly “oh yeah, that beautiful painting over there? I commissioned it.”
We really like the color in all of Erica’s work, and we love that our winner will be able to guide the color and design of their custom work to fit their home perfectly. You can even pick the best size for your space (from a 12 x 9″ up to 16 x 20″). Here’s how to enter:
- PRIZE: A commissioned painting from Studio Eriksdotter worth up to $350
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “PAINT ME A PICTURE!” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …tell us about your favorite piece of one-of-a-kind artwork that you currently own. Maybe it’s a finger painting done by a kid in your life? Something you got on etsy? Or a drawing that you sketched yourself to fill some blank space?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, November 24th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States, Canada and Europe!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here Thursday morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
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Not only do we have one winner, but everyone can get 10% off of anything from Studio Eriksdotter through Dec 9th. Use the code YOUNGHOUSELOVE for any stationery purchase in her Etsy shop or you can contact her directly for art inquiries.
And our very lucky winner (as selected by random.org) is… Ali Moore. Congrats!
Note: We weren’t paid or perk’d for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to reward our lovely readers! See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Studio Eriksdotter.
Christina says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!!!! My favorite piece of art is my son’s first drawing. It is fabulous!!!! I still think it is Smithsonian-worthy!!!!
Nicole says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! My husbands uncle is an artist and although his work isn’t really my style, we do have one large piece of work from him that I love. It’s an abstract piece of a piano and guitar, hanging in our family room.
Jill says
Paint me a picture!
My favorite piece of art is a painting that my husband and I had done by a street vendor on our honeymoon. It is beautiful by itself, but it was also fascinating to watch it get done and a wonderful reminder of our trip as well.
Kaitlyn says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite piece of one-of-a-kind art is also the first real piece of “art” that I ever bought. It was painted by my former roommate’s friend… she does layers and layers of brush strokes on canvas. The end result is amazing. Mine has pink, red, orange, gold, black and white brush strokes and it’s gorgeous!
Heather says
“PAINT ME A PICTURE!” My walls are bare!
J says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! My favorite piece of art was done by my father. He uses really bold colors and sharp angles. It’s beautiful.
kori says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! my favorite piece is a painting that my parents purchased together when they were still married. it was always in our living room growing up and now that i have a family of my own, it proudly hangs up in mine :)
Patricia says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favourite piece of art is a watercolour painting I bought at an auction a couple of years ago by mistake. As in you know, I made a low offer for fun, thinking that *obviously* someone else is going to actually make a serious one. But no-one did and it’s now hanging in my bedroom! The actual piece is a beautiful painting of two deers, a stag and a doe peering through some forest foliage, in the softest greens and browns imaginable. I love it because of the story of how I got it and the calming motif and colour palette.
jill says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I have a beautiful painting that my hubby and I “won” at a charity auction! It’s an 8 foot long landscape of my home state – I love it!
Bekah says
Paint me a picture! I just got a 12X12 original linocut print of an octopus from Etsy, and I really love it! It was a present to my husband for our first wedding anniversary this month. We got married in Hawaii last year, just the two of us, and we joked to people that our wedding was “Predators of the Sea” themed. Cue the octopi, squid, shark, and jellies!
Marinela says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
We recently bought our first house and our first original piece of art, a beautiful metal sculpture/painting. I hope we will be able to buy a tracking light soon to enjoy the painting at its full potential.
Shannon says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My husband helped my 5 month old at the time finger paint a picture for mother’s day! It is the only painting that has ever brought me to tears for sure:)
Z says
Paint me a picture!
And my favorite piece of original artwork we have (and by favorite, I might also mean only) is a fabulous oil painting that my mom gave us for our wedding, done in beautiful blues-greens-purples of an abstract stream/river
Dana says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!! We have no real artwork in our apartment except for pictures of our wedding that we framed and hung all over the place. We also took some gorgeous shots of some of the places we went on our one year anniversary cruise and I framed them. I always love capturing the moment.
Margaret says
Paint me a picture!
I bought myself a block print by a local artist when I was in Scotland this summer as my souvenir. I love the print and it reminds me of a great trip.
My favorite true original is a picture of a pirate ship that one of my favorite students drew for me several years ago.
Nikol says
An incredible Aboriginal Australian painting. It’s huge and was a wedding gift from some friends. It is the centerpiece of our house.
kelly says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My most favourite piece of original art is a paper cut out of my dog’s head (kind of like a silhouette) on really cute scrapbook paper. My friends made it for my husband’s birthday. I plan on framing it against a white background and hanging it on my wall.
Natalie says
PAINT ME A PICTURE
The only one-of-a-kind art we have is from our kiddos!!
It would be great to have something we could hang on our walls that didn’t come from a “big store”!!
rebecca says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite original painting in our house are three sketches my grandmother did of outfits she wore in the 1950’s… they look like vintage vogue covers.
emily says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
we recently framed a felix gonazales torres poster we picked up at the walker art museum in minneapolis. it was part of the exhibit and, in that sense, isn’t one-of-a-kind. but i like imagining all the unique one-of-a-kind ways people displayed this token of a great artist.
you can see how we did here: http://adenverhomecompanion.blogspot.com/2010/11/before.html
pam says
paint me a picture.
my dad was an artist and i have several of his paintings at my house. my all time favorite pieces is an abstract he did of a couple. he never told me who the couple was, but i always thought it represented my mom and dad. they were married for about 25 years until he passed away.
Kathryn says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!!
My favorite original art is a framed monogram that my mother-in-law embroidered for me for my wedding!!
Kara says
Paint Me a Picture!
It’s not really “art” in the conventional sense, but I have a poster of Langston Hughes that an English teacher gave me for winning a writing contest. It’s teal, and looks awesome on my fridge.
Melissa says
Paint me a picture!
I don’t really have any one-of-a-kind art, but my favorite piece of art is a collection of Picasso animal sketches that I got from Ikea. It’s a really fun and simple piece!
Stephanie Sampson says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite piece of art in my home was a wedding gift from my best friend. She sketched a picture of my hubby and I kissing, very similar to a picture we had taken when we were first dating.
Dani M. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!
I got a very sweet little print of two whales at a local art show the other week. My husband and I just found out that we’re expecting, so I splurged a little, but it makes me even more excited for our little one!
Lauren B. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
RIght now my favorite would be the first crayon scratch marks made by my daughter! (1yo)
Emily says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I love the painting in my kitchen – I painted it when I was 12!
Kate says
Paint me a Picture!!
My facorite picture in our home is a 8×10 drawing from an artist in Mexico that we picked up on our honeymoon. It’s bright and colorful and doesn’t match anything, but everytime I look at it I think of how much fun we had and don’t care that it doesn’t match!
Mindy M. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
Umm… the only artwork up in my house is my kid’s – most everything else is either illustrations or photographs. I really need some art in my life (& house).
Anna says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite piece of art that we have at home is a painting of a woman with oranges by Valverde.
Rosario says
You should ship it to México and Latin América too.
I’d love to have one.
So, i just want to share that my favourite piece of art is my 5 year old foot printed in a board. I made it for Father’s day and it says “i will follow your steps”
I love your blog, btw =)
Valerie BG. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!!!
My absolute favorite picture is this painting of Sacre Coeur we got from Paris. My husband and I were on our honeymoon and we love looking at it and reminscing about that wonderful trip.
Sara says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
Sarah N. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! I’m sad to say but our new house currently has no art at all. We do have photographs, but we haven’t found any art that we can afford and that we feel would go with our house. We would love to win this art!
Hannah says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite commisioned piece I own is a gorgeous painting of flowers done by a local artist who has basically done every piece of art I have in my house. The best part? She made the frame by taking sixty or so pieces of mismatched frames and creating one giant one. It’s spectacular!
Darlene W. says
“PAINT ME A PICTURE!”
Boy this is a tough one! I’m not sure I have anything that I would call my favorite….so I hope I win because then I’ll have something that I love!
Kathleen says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! This would be my first piece of artwork!
Kim says
Paint me a picture! We are renovating our little bungalow in Mt. Pleasant, SC. My favorite “pictures” are of the beautiful, curvy live oak trees we have here and the marsh grass at sunset. The light as it hits the water making it a gorgeous, vivid blue, the black palmetto tree silhouettes, the golden marsh grass and the fiery sky behind it-no words can describe how beautiful it is.
Laura says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite pieces of art are my engagement pictures done by an extremely talented photographer. My favorite is a picture of my husband and I sitting beside an old rusted out car.
Nyssa says
“PAINT ME A PICTURE!” I love the canvas I had done of our wedding picture!
Ally says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I love original artwork, but I don’t love being broke, so though I’m not an artist, most of the “artwork” on our walls was created by me. I’m fond of a colorful mixed media piece I made. It uses canvas, paint, and terracotta clay. I used clay to make a basic square frame, spelled out LOVE using pieces of clay, glued everything onto the canvas and painted the whole thing. I’m not describing it well, but it’s very colorful and quirky.
Samantha says
Paint me a picture! This is one of the coolest giveaways you guys have ever done! I’m pumped! The Saint James Art Fair is an annual show in my hometown and I always pick up an original print or painting. But I’m always looking for new interesting art, and this is awesome.
Brian says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I don’t have a favorite piece of artwork yet.
Sara says
Paint me a picture! My favorite and only one-of-a-kind art is a finger painting/crayon drawing from my niece when she was 2-years old (she’s now 7-years)! As much as I love it, we would love something a little more sophisticated.
Beth says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I would love to win this! We need color in our house. Most of our art right now would have to be B&W charcoal drawings I created back in college.
Dawn says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My husband is an illustrator/tattoo artist. He recently tattooed a piece on my side that I just LOVE. It’s currently my favorite piece of art!
renee says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
As the mother of two, I definitely pick their hand-crafted treasures :)
Christina says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite original artwork I own would probably be the photo my cousin took of my bed with my stuffed animals on it. It just makes me smile because it reminds me of my happy place.
My favorite non-original artwork I own is probably my “Uprisings” print by kozyndan: http://www.kozyndan.com/art/uprisings
I like it because from far away it looks like a traditional Japanese picture of a wave…until you get up close and see the bunnies hidding in the waves.
Rachael says
“Paint me a Picture”
My favorite art is all the art that my husband and I painted together while we were dating.