Would You Like To Give This Small, Insignificant Painting A Title?

Question

It is small (10" x 12") and isn’t worth anything. My excuses? I was just using up some old paint and several small canvases before starting work on a larger, more complex painting. And I needed some serious ‘goof-off’ time.

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/00055rp3/g16

But even insignificant paintings ought to have titles. Even serious or even non-serious answers will be taken into consideration.

Thank you, and have fun.

Julie, I paint in different styles, from pure abstract to figurative art to forms of surrealism. This type of painting I refer to, for want of a better phrase, as sub-symbolism. I simply start painting without any idea in mind and let the sub conscience do what it wants.

My girlfriend said it reminded her of a female praying mantis about to devourer a male. But I don’t think that was what I intended here. But you and her are right about one thing, it has to do with nature

Answer 1

It looks to me like

"Green Kisses"

Answer 2

Primeval. And don't ask me why. Initial response, so I won't change it. & I CERTAINLY won't intellectualize it. I HATE intellectualizing paintings. Some of my "insignificant" (?) pieces have been intellectualized so much I choke on my own laughter. I once saw an image in a plastered wall. It was a little boy in a graveyard, just standing there. (Not abstract.)
I got profound comments like, "The little boy is looking for his father's tombstone," & "It represents birth & death," & so on. It meant virtually nothing! I gave it the title "Estivation" which most people had to look up & were totally puzzled. (I can be quite a brat.) Then my collectors really started fighting over it, & I finally wound up giving it to a friend who had no opinions, but simply liked it. AND. Everyone needs some goof-off time. That doesn't make it insignificant.

Answer 3

Reminds me of when you fly into the San Francisco (near the bay) and they have those ponds of red and green stuff near the water. It might just just be the time of the year that you see them, b/c I've done it many times and only noticed them the past few times. I have no idea what they are. Kind of looks like pollution, but I doubt they would have something like that so close to the water. Especially in a place like San Francisco. Either way you could call it Ponds of the Bay.

Answer 4

Initial thought: "Bite". Don`t know why.
If not then; "The Small, Insignificant Painting of Goof", could work.

I liked it, but I also found it a bit creepy for some reason. Like some cannibalistic-horror movie combined with meditating buddhists.

Answer 5

Secret Santa's Kiss

Answer 6

Taking over

Becoming (one)

Spreading

:) I am using -ing forms because that painting suggests movement. The green spreads around in darkness, the red doesn't allow it to become one... But slowly, with sacrifices (red-blood) life-green takes over...

I am curious... what did you think about when you painted it?

Answer 7

A Day in The Park Looking at my Wife, perhaps? Just a humorous title. *shrug*

Answer 8

My immediate reaction was "Dinner Party". Because when I look at the circle in the middle it looks like buttons to a vest that you might wear to a dinner party.

Answer 9

Hunger.

It looks like a thing looking at something about to eat, but it has only one little item in its stomache.

But you can call it whatever you want, including "untitled."

Answer 10

looks a little like the designs on the side of the quran, on the pages. but then thats just me.