You Ever Have Any Really Weird Or Off-The-Wall Inspirations For Paintings?

Question

You ever come up with what you think is a really cool title? You don’t have a painting in mind yet but you have a title? You ever do a painting to fit a title?

Or perhaps you find a magnificent empty frame at a yard sale or at a thrift shop somewhere and buy it because that wonderful old frame needs a painting inside it. You don’t have an exact idea for a painting but you have a frame waiting for you to paint it?

Example: A friend and I were talking about relationships and it got around to talk about love triangles. Then she wondered if love triangles between lesbians was as difficult as triangles between men and women. The phrase ‘menage a trois’ was mentioned and I thought up the title ‘Menage A ****.’ Now I’m stuck with this stupid, but cool, title and no painting to go with it. All I know is I’ll end up doing a painting I’ll call ‘Menage A ****.’

What about your off-the-wall inspirations?

Answer 1

oh yes...most of my stuff is inspired by something off the wall and my titles are just plain wierd. or visaversa. and yes i buy frames at yard sales all the time...even bought one that is gawddy and gildish with a title of a painting stamped right into the thing...so guess what i'll do i'll do a painting with that title and put it in that frame.
methinks we be birds of a similar feather.