blank canvases
Awaiting first strokes
Blank canvases is the plural of blank canvas—a stretched fabric ready for painting but not yet marked.
The phrase commonly appears figuratively: an empty lot is a blank canvas for developers, a new semester offers students blank canvases.
The abandoned warehouse was a blank canvas for the street artists.
- primedMade ready beforehand
- easelUpright frame for paintings
- unpaintedLacking applied color
- art suppliesTools for making artwork
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
texture · surface · gesso · oil painting · tabula rasa · stretched · clean slate · virgin territory · prepped · fresh start · starting over · creative potential · linen · raw material · white · pictures · substrate · medium
completion/content
blank canvasesmasterpieces
Works of supreme skill
murals · portraits · oil paintings · frescoes · landscapes
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