Let the bribery begin! Giveaway #1

I promised I’d have some giveaways to bribe you to read JAX does design, and I”m a woman of my word! Here’s Bribe #1…

As you may know, I’m a big fan of artist Matt LeBlanc. I have five of his paintings in my house. The most recent addition is #27 from Matt’s Art For Life Campaign. (Did I mention he raised almost $40,000 for cancer research?) I had some fun zooming into different parts of the painting…

I found the perfect spot for #27 – in the hallway on the wall between the closet and the living room. I can look at it every time I leave the house and come home, and I can also see it from the kitchen. I think it adds a great pop of colour to the grey wall. And the thick canvas adds a cool dimension to the painting and looks great from the side.

Over the past five years, Matt’s become a good friend, and he always says Yes when I ask him if he’d be willing to offer one of his paintings for a giveaway. So for my first giveaway, I went to my go-to guy, and he didn’t let me down :-)

Matt is kindly offering this original 16"” x 20” original abstract painting to my giveaway winner:

Doesn’t it look like crashing ocean waves and a sandy beach?

How can you win? Well, I was going to make it complicated and make you get all your friends, family, and random strangers in the street to sign up to follow JAX does design. And I was going to make you all tweet about the giveaway on Twitter and post about it on your blogs and Facebook pages. And I was going to make you leave lots of comments telling me you’d done all those things to get lots of entries. But that’s a lot of work! Plus I expect you to do all those things out of the goodness of your heart and not just so you can win something ;-)

So here’s what you need to do to win – you have to take a Rorschach test. Leave a comment on this post and tell me what you see when you look at this close-up of #27:

There’s no right or wrong answer, I’m just curious to see if you see what I see :-) And it’ll be fun to read the different answers. So let your imagination run wild and think outside the box!

The giveaway is open until next Thursday, October 28th at 11:59PM EDT. I’ll use random.org to select the winner, and I’ll announce the winner’s name next Friday, October 29th when I tell you about my next giveaway. Seriously, there’s going to be a lot of giveaways here. I DID tell you I was going to use bribery to keep you around ;-)