How do you get ideas for paintings?

Question

Me and my sister have started to paint. Our parents buy us tons of canvases but i have no clue what to paint. SO far i've painted flowers w/ butterflies, and a sunset, and a lot of abstract (abstract is not my thing, it was pretty ugly). but i have no clue what to paint. I really want to paint though.

Answer 1

Try doing some "master studies."  Pick one of your favorite famous paintings and go for it!  You will learn so much trying to master what the masters did. . . that you will kick-start your ideas. . . I swear!  A variation on this idea is to change a famous painting.  How about Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring with glasses?  Or Van Gogh's bedroom with an x-box in it?  Or Monet's poppy field with you or your mom or someone you know walking in it?  

There you go! . . I know you have some ideas brewing now. . . . .  :-)

Answer 2

My Sister and I.etc

Answer 3

I like to paint scenes that I see. I live on a canal so I've painted scenes from that. I've painted playgrounds like the slides and stuff. There's a lot of neat old fashioned stuff around the village near where I live. Stuff like that. I enjoy portraits also.