Friday, September 14, 2012

Shep paints a "Sunset"

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When you finish a painting it's time to start another.  This painting is fairly large at 24" x 30", is painted on a gallery wrapped canvas, and has a really nice gold shadow box frame.  Give me a name for it.

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2 comments:

  1. Karen A. CallawaySeptember 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    Well...

    "Sunset, XXXX" would be the simplest. (Using the location or month or date.) A little fancier would be "Sundown." (Also perhaps adding the location, etc.). Given that there is water, perhaps "Eventide"?

    Or, go find a poem about sunsets and use one/part of one line that evokes what you tried to capture/"say" with the painting. Whitman? Frost? Shakespeare? Though my go-to poet is Emily Dickinson.

    One of hers ("I'll tell you how the sun rose")could be paraphrased for your title: Paraphrasing Emily: "I'll tell you how the sun set". Or, take one of her lines from that poem (the quote marks and placement of the exclamation point are hers): "That must have been the Sun"!

    This also might help:
    http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/sunset_t001.htm

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  2. Karen A. CallawaySeptember 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM

    P.S.
    I forgot to ask:
    What's the medium?

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