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| The Blank Canvas | 
 enlarge | Author: Anna Held Audette
Publisher: Shambhala
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 391220
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 109
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0877739382
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.19
EAN: 9780877739388
ASIN: 0877739382
Publication Date: September 28, 1993
Release Date: September 28, 1993
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Boring... April 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know why all the great reviews. This book was boring, uninspired and uninformative. I wasted a day reading this. I wasn't interested in any of the author's opinions. I wanted something useful I could use. The only useful thing out of this was the fact that I resold it... FAST!
I should have "listened" to the reviewers that gave it a low score. A total waste of money (which I was able to recuperate).
 A very enlightening reading for Art students February 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The blank Canvas is an enlightening reading not only for students but for anyone interested in art related careers. Anna Held Audette's clear and elegant discourse has been very beneficial to my Spanish speaking painting students who find much of English written artbooks hard to understand.
I SO NEED THIS BOOK! February 22, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am one of the "beginning artists" at whom this book is aimed. (Just give me a moment to giggle at the person who complained that a book called "The Blank Canvas" is for painters. Okay, I'm over it.) This concise, easy to digest (but certainly not simplistic) text gives suggestions on how to find subjects on your own, which is where I am in my art, I need to know HOW to get ideas. It's not written in that mucky, "Vein of Metallic Glitter" mode, either. I believe anyone who makes visual art (drawings, paintings, sculpture, computer art, for instance)--and who is "stuck"--will find this useful. Also, it gives very helpful advice on good art habits that will help you keep flexible and open to what actually constitutes a subject. (BTW, if you are a writer, I'd suggest "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott or "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, for similar but more writerly :) suggestions.)
Well worth what I paid for it, and a welcome addition to my art library.
A very good book September 21, 2005
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was pleased with the speed in which the book arrived, the condition for being used was good and the book itself was a really good read for someone in a dry spell. Thanks. S. Taylor
clarifying June 22, 2001
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
small book full of knowledge.if you are a painter,will find answers and solutions for creative blocks. comments on "the studio"(the space for your work), copying, sources and others. read this book ,and feel secure the next time you face a blank canvas.
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