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There’s a sod’s law of still life that says that you will never, ever be able to get as pleasing a composition as the first, random time you unthinkingly threw your subject down on the table.

It’s best to chance upon an existing and pleasing configuration, but if you have to arrange it yourself, try not to think too much. The human brain tries to impose order and patterns, when sometimes the nicest arrangement contains neither of these things.

Thus, your task for the day is to spill something. How often do you get a chance to do that? Empty your pencil case or the contents of your bag; open a fist that’s clutching a bunch of grasses and flowers; leave the letters where they fall on the doormat. Then draw.