Titles submitted by friends and art lovers

During my Spring Open Studio, I showed two of the new tall paintings. To me they feel like figure paintings. I called them “Totems”. One of my visitors said that was kind of a cop out. So I asked the many guests for suggestions and received a lot of wonderful, fun suggestions. See below.

Thank you all for playing. (I have a newer, really nutty painting for title suggestions for next time.)

This painting reminds me of a Madonna because of the blue and the red, and the fact that the Madonna is usually sitting with adoring creatures around her. (Yikes, this is a really bad slide and not actually a final version of the painting.)

Moving

Getting ready to move

Garage sale—dog not for sale

Rec and Waiting

Rec in waiting

Family Life

Everyday life

Crap happens

Moving to College

Star wars

What does not belong in this picture

The sound of the phone not answered

Direct TV

What the dog knew

My next trip

Dog Robot

Guarding the goods

Animal Husbandry

Madonna of the Shakeweight

And there's this one:

Silly Goose

Read and Ride

Afleck

Spinning

Honked

Stacked message

Temperamental Storage room

Garage sale with swan

Getting ready to paint

“Swann’s Way”

Duct tape

Swan contemplating retirement

Swan lake

3-Ring swan

Balanced chaos

Swan song

Swan unplugged

On vacation

Swan library

Bicycle Duck

something with 'Tinguely' in it...

Thanks to the person who suggested Jean Tinguely. I had forgotten all about him. The wonderful robotic sculptures. He used a lot of bicycle wheels. I just read about the piece below in "The bride and her bachelors: five masters of the avant-garde" by Calvin Tomkins.