Comments on: How to Come Up With a Title for Your Artwork? https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/how-to-come-up-with-the-title-for-your-artwork/ Get Inspired Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eileen Hale https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/how-to-come-up-with-the-title-for-your-artwork/#comment-2641992 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:59 +0000 https://www.artistsnetwork.com/?p=1396772#comment-2641992 In reply to Eileen Hale.

This one is Rick & Rocket.

]]> By: Eileen Hale https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/how-to-come-up-with-the-title-for-your-artwork/#comment-2641991 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:51:13 +0000 https://www.artistsnetwork.com/?p=1396772#comment-2641991 I’m a poet as well as a visual artist, so I (usually) enjoy coming up with titles. Some titles are almost straightforward but subtly oddball, like The Horse’s Ass Painting: A Self-Portrait (also a bit rude, which I enjoy). Or a couple of paintings in progress: The Two-Lizard Wolf Painting, and The Three-Lizard Wolf Painting. Then there’s Chickenfoot Serpentine; and Rick & Rocket: Planetary and Redheaded (where I will note that I both spell out “and,” and use an ampersand).

]]> By: sheff6@gmail.com https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/how-to-come-up-with-the-title-for-your-artwork/#comment-2634456 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:58:05 +0000 https://www.artistsnetwork.com/?p=1396772#comment-2634456 Thank you! I haven’t been in the habit of giving titles to my artwork. Recently I have set the goal to participate in more art exhibitions, and that requires that the piece be titled. It has been a struggle to come up with the right thing. Your aricle is filled with great ideas.

]]> By: Venarella Hinkle https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-inspiration/how-to-come-up-with-the-title-for-your-artwork/#comment-2633547 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:35:08 +0000 https://www.artistsnetwork.com/?p=1396772#comment-2633547 It’s nice to visit and contemplate the way other artist come up with titles to their work.
The method I approach is to focus on the reason I was inspired to paint a piece in the first place.
For example, one autumn day I noticed Carpenter Bee’s floating around an expiring potted plant on my porch. Approaching to window I could see several Bee’s trying every position possible to get their last moments of nectar for the season. The day was warm, shadows were good, and the Bee’s were so drunk with nectar I could pet their furry backs with my finger…..so I grabbed my camera and got bunches of shots of their slow motion dance they corrugated around the plants.
So I titled this one “The Acrobatics of the Bee”

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