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Today I write about the process of naming a painting when it is finished.  Some painters are marvelously gifted at coming up with clever, pun-like names for their works.  Carol Marine, a prolific daily painter, has some of my favorite titles.  Occasionally I have a fun or particularly descriptive title come quickly to mind.   For example, my painting "Til the Cows Come Home", practically named itself.  But more often I struggle.  Some people believe that a title of a painting should not "tell" or disclose anything that the painting doesn't tell.  Umberto Eco writes that the title of a book "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them."   Hmmm.  As for the recent painting pictured here, "Red Napkin and Brown Bag" just doesn't seem to cut it.  "Brown Bagging It" sounds too much like what we used to do in the dark ages before liquor by the drink was legalized in NC.  I am open to suggestions!