A blank page

The other day I had my Year 12 Art class and I gave them a handout, as you do, and on it I included some words about a blank page. Sometimes, you see, the blank page is a problem. It can be a challenge. Infact, it can be a nightmare... At times, I sense my students' struggle, when they are not sure what to do next and they're faced with another blank page.....
A blank page can be an invitation...
"Nothing" has a big part to play...
"Nothing" is often where "something" is hiding...
"Nowhere" may take you to the perfect "somewhere".... I read some points from Stephanie Dowrick's book "Creative Journal Writing" (which I find it to be an excellent book!)
I read a little snippet to "my girls" (the Year 12 Art class) from Christopher Robin & Pooh Bear by A. A. Milne...

 "Where are we going?' said Pooh, hurrying after Christopher Robin...
"Nowhere," said Christopher Robin.
So they began going there and after they had walked a little way Christopher Robin said, "what do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?"
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best - " and then he had to stop and think about eating honey, visiting Christopher Robin, being with Piglet, humming along...
"I like that too," said Christopher Robin, "but what I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you as you're going off to do it, "What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?" and you say, "Oh, nothing," and then you go and do it."
"Oh, I see," said Pooh.
"This is a nothing sort of thing that we're doing now."
"Oh, I see," said Pooh again.
"It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh.

 Don't you love it?! So I gave my students a whole lot of possible prompts for annotation and drawing and creating for their visual diaries/sketchbooks...and hopefully the blank page will not be daunting.