Look at your artwork. What were you trying to show with your piece? Beauty? Hidden depth and meaning? A moral message? Figure out everything that makes your piece unique. As an example, let's look at this piece by Monet and name it.
Find out the key words. In Claude Monet's painting, we can find these things: flowers, Irises, a path, a building, and trees. We can even add something like sunny day to our list!
Narrow it down once you're happy with the amount of descriptions you've put on your list. For example, you might want to keep: flowers, Irises, and sunny day. But the path, trees, and building can be taken out if you think it's not the focal point.
Pretend you're the viewer of the piece, not the creator of it. What would stand out to you most? What would you like most? Let's narrow down the list to: Irises and sunny day.
Figure out what type of image you want to convey, even before the person looks at it. "A Sunny Day" makes you think of a clear, sunny sky, where "Irises" makes you think of a garden, or even of just some flowers.
Now remember your language class. Alliteration helps titles (the repetition of a beginning sound), as does anything that lets it roll off the tongue. Keep that in mind!
You've done it! You've created a name for your piece that is descriptive and sounds great. So here's the painting again, and its name:
