0 a canvas (= a piece of strong, rough cloth used by artists) or other surface that has nothing painted on it:
He devised special costumes, which the dancers soak in paint offstage, and as they dance, the paint is "transferred" to a blank canvas secured to the stage floor.
Interior designers rarely work with a blank canvas and the licence to do absolutely anything they want.
A 60-year-old can no longer be regarded as a blank canvas, however. Life events leave their mark.
A blank canvas nearly 6 feet tall and 7 feet wide stands in the studio he has made in his mother's living room.
A white wall is Tulsa artist William Franklin's blank canvas.
You have a chance, you have a blank canvas here. You get to reinvent, you get to do anything you want with this.
He has had broad appeal because he is seen as a blank canvas on which people can project their ideals.