Did you ever have trouble naming your painting?  Your upcoming show?  It is sometimes quite difficult to come up with a good name which doesn't sound too flat or boring.  How do you accomplish this when your mind seems to be blank?  This is an easy trick I have found to work almost every time.  Take a magazine and find the editorial page or a catalog and thumb through the pages.  Make note of all the interesting words by listing them on a piece of paper.  For example, these are from a recent Watercolor magazine:  visual, delicate, gilded, display, shadow, inspiration, vision, surprises, passion, mingle, right, steady, pattern, elements, light, balance, and edge.  Now, how can they help with coming up with a name. Try mixing a couple of them together, such as: "Delicate Light", "Shadows and Surprises", "Gilded Elements", "Mingling Patterns" or "Passion and Inspiration". 

Sometimes, names of paintings come to mind before the painting is even done or started.  This happened when I woke up in the middle of the night, and thought of painting the Jaguar.  Hmmmm, "Jaguar and Tigers" was soon the name of the painting.....but not literally 'tigers', but rather 'Tiger Lilies".  See this painting in a previous blog entry.  Another one was "Long Past Prime" which came to me while driving.  Of course, the name is rather self-explanatory....it had to be something old.  I painted a very old building (or barn) with the door hanging off it's hinges during early spring, so the trees were not yet leafed out and the grass was peaking out from under the snow.  I have a new one that came to me today; "Dandi-Lions".  Can't you just picture a (dandy) lion laying in a bed of dandelions?  

Capturing the painting by the name and expressing a feeling of your objective is your main goal.  May your dreams and visions help you with countless visions and inspirations to develop a score of names for your work.