***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.
Christine says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
One day I was messing around with my kids’ watercolors, and the next thing I knew, I had painted a fairly decent-looking sunflower! It is now framed and sits on top of a bookshelf in our spare room.
Jessica says
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For our second anniversary my husband got me a painting of a magnolia bloom because I have always wanted a magnolia tree. It is by far my favorite piece of art in the house.
sylvie says
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My favorite is my husband’s sketch of me right before he proposed. I was completely clueless as to what was about to happen!
Whitney says
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Being an design major, I have made lots of original artwork. My favorite that I’ve done is an old-fashioned-style Harper’s poster rendered in Illustrator. It has a huge pop of yellow mixed with neutral tans and whites and black outlines. I love the colors together and the bold, graphic elements.
Tina de Vere White says
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My favorite one of a kind piece of art work is a silk screen print my sister made of my wedding cake photo. It was a gift for my birthday and it hangs in my bedroom. The outline of the cake is so cool and clean looking. Its a great treasure to have.
Kate S. says
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My favorite has got to be an oil painting a good friend of mine did…it’s very moody with purples and grays. Love it.
Karen says
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My favourite one-of-a-kind piece in my house is a beautiful watercolour that my grandfather (an artist) painted. My grandmother found it in one of his sketchbooks after he died, had it framed and kept it with her until she died. She left the painting to me. It is so different from anything else he painted and is very special to me.
Stephanie says
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My favorite piece of art in my house is a by-hand, marker sketch of a pirate ship by a local artist/hobo known as “Sailor Dan”. My boyfriend got it for me on our first date, and it’s hanging proudly in our kitchen two years later!
Katie B. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
Right now the only custom art in my home is a drawing my 5 year old nephew created for my birthday. It’s hanging in a place of honor, on my fridge.
Alisa D. says
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My favorite pieces of original artwork are the ones my kids drew me when they were younger. I’m looking at one right now my youngest drew of me and her holding hands and she wrote above it “I love you” in puffy letters. Priceless!
Niki S. says
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I own no paintings. Zero! My husband and I have completely different taste in art. The closest I have is a picture I bought from a street vendor in NYC during a friend’s bachelorette party. It’s a black and white, still without a frame, and still not hanging in my house :-) Actually, now that I think of it, we bought a sketch of Captain Tony’s bar in Key West from a local artist. Captain Tony was actually at the bar one day so my husband made me go with him back to our B&B and picked up the painting so that Captain Tony could sign it. The only good think that I can say about our “art” is that it has a (small and boring) story behind it.
Jen M says
Paint me a picture!
My favorite piece of original artwork is a drawing dissecting gears in a machine that my grandfather did for a college class as an engineering student.
Cassie G says
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My very favorite painting is an original I bought at Goodwill for $7. It is of a house on a hill with a man walking towards the viewer. It is kinda abstract with very bright colors, and everyone who sees it can’t believe I paid less than $10 for it. I don’t know Henri (the painter), but I love his work!
Jamie says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I’m working on some art right now using some song lyrics on canvas, we’ll see how it turns out!
cassie says
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my fave piece of artwork is an etsy print that i got from kantan designs that sits on my nightstand and reads, “go & do”. that says it all.
Kate says
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My favorite piece of artwork we have in our home is a painting done by a Chicago artist who was a friend of my grandfather. It’s not really ours though, we’re “borrowing” it from my parents because they didn’t have space for it :)
Jordan says
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Our old school Hawaiian painting.
Jane says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!!
My favorite pictures are actually the ones drawn by my niece and nephew!
Allison says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!! My favorite piece of art is something we found at an art fesitval right down the road. It’s a sketch of the Carribean islands. We went diving in the Turks & Caicos on our honeymoon and we can look at the print and pick where we want to go next!
debbie says
Paint me a picture!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have several vintage type prints that I love!!
Monika says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite piece of custom artwork that I own is a sketch done by my cousin who is an excellent artist. She did it probably about 8 years ago when we were having a sleepover in my parents basement. She included lyrics from songs that we were listening to and ideas from magazines that we were cutting up to make collages. It is the first and only piece of real art that I own (for now).
kendra says
Paint me a picture! Awesome giveaway!!!
angel p says
Paint me a picture.
I have a great quirky Jim Warren piece that I got on a closing sale for almost nothing.
Rebecca says
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What a fantastic giveaway. My hubbie and I have decorated our walls with the beautiful black and white photographs that we have taken on various adventures that we’ve experienced together. As much as I love these images, it sure would be nice to break up the b/w with a colorful and unique painting.
Tracy says
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My favorite painting is a still life that a student artist made while I was in college and I bought it from them off the wall in the gallery on campus. It has dark, bold black lines that I LOVE and this cool frog in the middle of it. I <3 it!
Katie says
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My favorite piece of art is an aerial photograph of the cliff walk in Newport, RI where my husband proposed to me.
Robin says
“Paint me a picture!!!!!”
My favorite piece of artwork that I own is a painting of a robin on a branch. It is framed and hangs next to my bed. It was painted by my grandmother at age 94. She’s currently 96 and only started painting since she entered the retirement home at age 93. I adore it.
Kelly-Jo Beck says
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My favorite piece of art is a picture that my husband took while on vacation. While canoeing, (he’s such a multitasker) he captured the front of the canoe, the still water–with the sky reflected in it and lilly pads on the water’s surface. It is also very patriotic if you look closely because there is a maple leaf design (yay Canada!) etched into the leather on the canoe seat.
Nikkidd says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! My favorite pieces of artwork in my home are:
1. The DIY Moroccan Door wall of art that I made for my living room
2. The sunset beach painting I made for my bedroom and
3. Likely one of my more favorite – the painting of a red and black kimono that I did originally for my living room in our old apartment, that now resides in our dining room.
I would LOVE to have a beautiful painting to go above our fireplace in our living room – or maybe she’d do a better job at an abstract beach scene for our bedroom… hmmm..
Taysha Riggs says
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Jess says
Paint me a picture!
Fave art up now are two pairs of children’s wooden skiis, circa 1950s, that I found in my grandparent’s basement and had been used by my mother as a child! Make great playroom wall art :).
Margaret says
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I have a poster made by my husband’s little cousin with silk leaves from our wedding day glued on it saying “I had a wonderful time at your wedding.” It’s adorable and I treasure it so much!
Danielle says
Paint Me A Picture! My favorite piece of art is a folk art painting of two black and white cats which I got to remind me of my two kitties who passed away. Even though it’s not my style, something spoke to me in it!
Rebecca says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
I love traveling and on my last trip to Buenos Aires I snatched up a painting of the tango by a local artist.
Jessi E says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! My father-in-law paints pictures Bob Ross style. They aren’t exactly my decor style, but he puts so much heart and thought into each one that I love them. We have one of his originals hanging in our living room. It doesn’t match the rest of our art or furniture, but I absolutely love it.
Lisa says
Paint me a Picture!! My 2 year old daughter LOVES to paint with her watercolors….and I’m in love with everything she paints.
Abbie says
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We just moved so we have no paintings so i really need to start a collection
Allison says
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My favorite is a painting my husband “commissioned” our artist sister-in-law to paint as a surprise wedding gift from him to me. It is of the reflcting pool and Lincoln memorial in DC where we got engaged.
Megan says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!
My favorite art to date are 3 Story People prints we got for our wedding. The colors and stories are great.
Karrie says
Paint me a picture! My favorite piece of art was done by a friend in college (it was a painting he decided not to show at his senior exhibit). It’s a little abstract, full of color and quirky. I love it!
Noelle says
PAINT ME A PICTURE!!
We currently have a couple small pieces (a glass bowl and an acrylic painting) we won at a silent auction, both locally made. Our next piece may just be a large canvas print of one of my own photos.
Brandon says
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Jamie says
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My favorite pieces of art are a series of three hand-drawn owns that we got at a local arts and crafts fair. They were drawn in 15 minutes, but they look like they took hours.
Lisa says
Paint me a picture…
My favorite piece of art is a large canvas my husband and i painted a week before we got married to capture that moment in time. Looking at it always makes me smile.
Samantha Tonak says
Paint me a picture!
I have six 8×10 photographs of Peruvian residents framed above our television from our trip to Peru last Winter!
Betsy says
Paint me a picture!
I have several pieces painted by my aunt, who was a fantastic artist who lived on a farm and painted mostly dogs and cows – hard to choose from them! My favorite of hers though is a little watercolor sketch – maybe 3×5 – that she did at the beach one summer. It’s very simple – a painting of where we hung all of the “stuff” that didn’t make it inside – sandy flip flops, towels, bathing suits – colorful and fun, captures her free spirit and reminds me of those fun trips every summer.
Courtenay G says
Paint me a picture!
Ashley says
Paint me a picture!
It’d have to be the mother’s day card my Daniel made. It has an apple with googly eyes. It makes me smile :)
Juli D. says
PAINT ME A PICTURE! We do a lot of backcountry hiking, so we’ve framed a number of the photos we take – that’s the main artwork in our home.
linda says
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My favourite piece is a still-life of a bottle of wine, some cheese and a wine glass. My dad painted this many years ago, and now that he is gone and won’t be sharing his talents anymore, it is all that much more precious