They are works done with broad strokes, leaving much of the bare canvas in its original color.

"It's a kind of truth that every artist is confronted with: a bare canvas and the fear you're going to ruin that pristine surface."

Hidden in a closet with stacks of bare canvases, Downes now lay dead.

The still-life objects have escaped, leaving the bare table, the bare canvas.

The bare canvas was neatly rolled beside it.

Guiding his wheelchair up to a table, he bends over a bare white canvas and lays down a wedge of color with his left hand.

I think that's 26 minutes from start to finish from the bare canvas', interjects Nancy.

A moment later she held the bare canvas in her hands.

And, to judge from his technique, the bare canvas holds no terrors for this artist but, instead, inspires him to attack without hesitation.

Sterne did quite well without one; and often an unfinished picture is all the more interesting for the bare canvas.