***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.
Nancy Hunter says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I love the little original art piece we bought in a little mining town called Bisbee, in Arizona. It’s of a girl that is partially painted and partially cut paper.
XO Nancy
Eric says
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Jessalyn E says
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…my fiance’s mom has recently gotten into making custom light switch plate covers. To celebrate moving into our new house, she designed a few to complement our wall colors. It adds a little bit of pizzazz to our otherwise bare walls.
Angela B says
Paint me a picture! I have a painting that an ex colleague painted for me when I moved from Finland to Sweden. It brings back such nice memories as it was such a special time in my life.
Taylor says
Paint be a picture! My MIL loves to paint and has painted several canvases for our house.
Elliott says
Paint me a picture!
Two years ago my hubby and I picked up a small oil painting of a bulldog. I don’t think it was a coincidence that our baby bulldog looks EXACTLY like that painting. :)
Kendall says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!…. My favorite piece of original art is a framed printout of a tree my husband and I had our wedding guests use as our guestbook. Guests pressed their thumbs into different green ink pads and made up the leaves of our leafless tree print. Everytime I look at it I think of our special day.
Mary T. says
Paint me a picture!
My mom is an artist and my favorite piece of art is one of hers from the 70s that is hung up in my house.
Steph says
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Last year at my company Christmas party, we were paired up and asked to make portraits of our partners. My partner created a mixed media piece in my likeness that uses such materials as lace, cotton balls, buttons – even wintergreen Lifesavers. Love it, and its displayed proudly in my living room.
bdaiss says
Paint me a picture!
Favorite original art? The butterfly wall I just made for my daughter.
Mallory D. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!! My favorite picture is one my dad had done for me last Christmas to document my first house I had just bought by myself. It’s super tiny, but I love it!
Liz says
Paint me a picture!
My husband’s grandmother is a professional photographer, and has won several photography contests. She gave us a print of her latest prize-winning photo: a tree growing through the roof of an old, abandoned truck. I love the composition of the photo, and it’s such a unique, artsy print. It’s especially meaningful since it was taken by someone we care dearly about!
Mollie says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! My favorite piece of art is a clock I painted directly onto my wall. My mom gave me a cute vinyl decal clock. It featured the whole birdsie branchie motiv. It was cute, but the colors didn’t work. So I painted over it, and removed the decals and was left with this cool, one-of-a-kind permanent clock on my wall. If I ever move, I swear I’m going to cut on the drywall to take it with me.
Christie Newsome says
PAINT ME A PICTURE
We are currently in the midst of redecorating our house, so our house is very boring right now, especially in the art department. We would love to have a piece that was commissioned for us and would be the centerpiece in our living room.
Julianna says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!
A painting a dear friend of mine did of my backyard (which happens to be a farm!)
Olyvia says
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My favorite piece of artwork here in our home is a small, simple painting my husband did for me when we were in our early years of dating. It is a heart hanging by a string, with words on the back of the canvas saying, “You are my heart-string.” It was his creative way of telling me that he knows I am there for him, holding him together, in the good times and the bad. I love it!
Katy G says
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jess says
Paint me a picture! My favorite piece is a canvased photo print of a palm tree from a trip to Madagascar. It’s a wonderful memory…
Miranda G says
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My favorite art piece is actually a risque boudoir picture my husband took of me and blew it up to 12 x 14. I love it because he photographed it, which made me feel sexy, and because I was 7 weeks pregnant with our first child.
Kristi Baumgarner says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! = )
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Lauren says
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My hubs and I are loving the caterpillar sent to us by our nephew – our fridge never looked so good :)
Britta says
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We are blessed to have a few original pieces of artwork in our home by my favorite artist – none other than the talented Emilie Hobert, aka, my incredibly talented former college roommate :) She gave my husband and I one of her senior project pieces as a wedding present, and we LOVE it. She works a lot in encaustics (melted wax and paint). LOVE LOVE LOVE her :)
flyingbird says
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My cherished one-of-a-kind artwork is a watercolor my Mom did, copying one of my favorite books from childhood.
Amee says
Paint me a picture!
My husband is an artist and proposed to me using two pictures he painted for me. One is of me and one is of him. We currently have them in our bedroom and they are so special to me.
Linda says
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My favorite painting is a painting of what looks like a Italian coastal town my grandma gave me for my birthday :o)
Rosemary says
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My favorite piece is a painting of a little white teapot on a blue background with yellow flowers coming out of the top. It’s painted on a little piece of wood maybe three inches wide. I was admiring it at a vendor table (but I was completely broke and knew I could hardly afford a thumbtack to hold it). A stranger came up and said, “which one do you like?” I pointed to the teapot. He bought it, handed it to me, said “enjoy!” and walked away.
Lindsay says
Paint me a picture! My favorite piece of artwork is a paining I did myself – I needed something for the bedroom…
Amanda says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I don’t have any art up. Just beautiful pictures of my babies!
kaush says
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I have a picture of flowers that my mother made when she was a teenager. Its not your regular painting, its actually flowers traced with threads, basically like thread art. Thats my favorite!
Cheryl says
Paint Me a Picture!
My favorite is a B&W “sketch” I created from a picture of Ryan using photoshop. While my skills are vastly outshone by everyone who’s touched photoshop, I’m pretty proud of how it turned out for the first “Christmas as a Daddy” present.
Rachel C says
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My favorite picture is one we received from the best man in our wedding. My husband and I got married July 4th and the painting is by John Pils and it showcases Saint Louis with fireworks. It was very thoughtful and it is a great memory of a great friend and an amazing day!
Amanda says
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My favorite Piece is a textile wall hanging created by a local artist (and friend) :)
Sarah R says
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I don’t have any original artwork yet. Not even any pictures from our nieces or nephew! So this would be wonderful!
Stacie says
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My two favorite pieces were an amazing, lucky find. They were at a thrift shop for $2 for one and $3 for the other. They were artist proofs of prints by Crystal Davis. I had them professionally framed. I love, love, love them!
Alex says
Paint me a picture! My favorite piece of original art is my baby girl’s foot prints :)
Kara says
PAINT ME A PICTURE…
and my favorite piece of art…oh wait, i don’t really have any. i bought at $5 poster in college though, if that counts.
Christine S. says
Paint me a picture!
My favorite artwork is a photo collage my stepmom made of me and my boyfriend- most of the pictures are from her wedding, it was really sweet of her to make us something special, when it was her day!
Jenna says
Paint me a picture! This is a fabulous giveaway!! My favourite piece is one my late grandmother painted. She was a talented artist who owned her own art shop, and it means so much to me to have her “fingerprints” in my home to remind me of her.
Annie says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite pieces of art are things we have made. My husband edits photos he has taken in photoshop into something that looks more like a painting than a photo and I love the way they look.
Clara W. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My husband draws and paints and I treasure every piece he allows me to frame and hang.
Tiffany A. says
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During my first year of teaching, a student drew this picture of her in a flower garden holding my hand! I have it framed in my office here at home!
Miranda says
Paint me a picture! This is great! I comissioned a piece once for my sister – based on a story I wrote about our childhood together…climbing on hay bales, riding bikes and our rock garden. It even had the butter flavored Crisco which we used to “polish” our rocks. Bums me out that she’s never bothered to frame it and hang it. Should have kept it for me.
Sherry says
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We have a photograph of train waiting to leave the station in Nice…en route for Florence. My husband took it. It always brings back wonderful memories.
Levi says
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Emily says
Paint me a picture! Either of those would look great in my living room!!!
esther says
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My brother in law painted a canvas painting for me and I love it!
Emily says
Paint me a picture! I love these paintings!
wiley says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!!!
My favorite piece of art is one I stumbled upon in a friends garage… and they were about to throw it away!! It’s in pretty great shape considering it was in a basement for over 20 years- which breaks my heart! It is too lovely to to hide. It is an impressionist style seascape with boats off in the distance and native people walking ashore with baskets and arms full. There is a huge storm cloud in the background as the sun sets behind it. So not only was it free, and it resembles my favorite artist (JMW Turner)- but it also reminds me of Andros Island, Bahamas where I go every summer as a part of a Mission Project with the gorgeous island people there. I can barely make out the artist but it seems to dated to 1964. It is a true treasure to me- if my house was on fire it would be the first thing I grab!!! It is about 24in x 48in. and it is nestled on our mantle.
Halley (Blunder Construction) says
Paint me a picture! My favorite piece of artwork that we have currently is a work of my own. I know that sounds like I’m full of myself, but it’s a painting that I worked very, very hard on!
JenS says
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I actually painted my favorite picture – I took a Chinese brush painting class and it was one of our projects – water lilies with a small frog and little dragon flies. Of course, 9 months post move and we still haven’t hung any artwork…