blank canvasses
Empty artistic foundations
Blank canvasses are surfaces prepared for painting but not yet marked—stretched fabric or boards coated with primer, awaiting an artist's work.
The phrase extends figuratively to anything offering unlimited creative possibility: The new semester was a blank canvas for the students.
Also spelled blank canvases.
- primedMade ready beforehand
- tabula rasaUnmarked mental starting point
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- inchoatePartially formed, undeveloped
- incipienceInitial emergence phase
stretched · genesis · empty page · unpainted · nascent · white · open space · opportunity · creative freedom · potential · easel · frame · artist studio · pictures · brush · freedom · preparation · carte blanche
blank canvassesmasterpieces
Works of supreme skill
murals · oil paintings · portraits · frescoes · landscapes
blank canvassespermanent records
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