The phrase "a canvas and a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to items or concepts that are being paired or listed together, often in a creative or artistic context.
Example: "For the art project, we need a canvas and a set of brushes to get started."
Alternatives: "a canvas and some" or "a canvas and a palette".
It's a canvas, and a ball goes in the back.
Although it was incidentally frightening, it was also systematically reassuring: it shouldn't have worked; it had stopped working; and yet it worked — vandalized, brutalized, a canvas and a pissoir, it reliably took you wherever you wanted to go.
Combining rarely seen early drawings, paintings, and writings with archival film and photographs, Boom for Real chronicles the emergence of the charming and prolific artist, musician, and poet for whom the city was both a canvas and a stage.
Although it was incidentally frightening, it was also systematically reassuring: it shouldn't have worked; it had stopped working; and yet it worked vandalized, brutalized, a canvas and a pissoir, it reliably took you wherever you wanted to go.
The stretcher on the back of a canvas and a man walking with a painting under his arm are two the company thought of to convey the notion of movement.
So, an Ensor tableau vivant covers about three-fifths of a canvas, and a Picasso about half.
There I was in a meatpacking district, seeing a brush touch a canvas and feeling that a large, if not overwhelming, significance hung on the act.
Photo-realists typically projected a photographed image onto a canvas and then used an airbrush to reproduce the effect of a photo printed on glossy paper.
The most overt reference was a male model carrying a canvas and paint brushes.
It was Hirst who put a shark in formaldehyde, painted spots on a canvas and exhibited a skull encrusted with diamonds with a £50m asking price.
The artists' suits are now caked with clay, creating a canvas within a canvas, and their faces are as ruddy as the floor itself.
