"above the canvas" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when describing the location of something in relation to a canvas, such as a painting or drawing. Example: The artist carefully placed the oil paints on the table above the canvas, ready to create a masterpiece.
Drawing in the air above the canvas freed him from, among other things, himself.
For a moment, he seems to float high above the canvas, buoyed by the screams of hundreds of wrestling fans.
Sue Contessa's "Marked Voids," patterned with creamy dots that seem to hover above the canvas, also hinge on the figure-ground interplay.
He also did paintings of bowling balls, olives, marbles, amphetamine pills, and other unrelated items that seemed to hover just above the canvas, and drawings in which three-dimensional words appeared to rise up from the surface like paper cutouts.
Now, Hadley's paintbrush was poised above the canvas, ready to bring definition to the first of 33 characters that populate the two murals.
Jonze works from behind the camera as Pollock worked above the canvas: "When you're painting out of your unconscious," Pollock said, "figures are bound to emerge".
"Monumental in scale (237.49 x 393.7 cm), 'Convergence' (1952) is an archetypal drip work by Pollock, in which he poured and applied (with sticks and basting syringes) the paint from above, circling around the canvas, which he grandiosely nicknamed 'the arena'.
Ink sits on top of a fabric, making it suitable for signs, wallpaper and heavier fabrics like the canvas, above right, on which the fig pattern is being printed for Hable Construction.
I always began my sky paintings and monoprints of the 1990s by drawing the horizon line centimetres, even millimetres, above the bottom of the canvas or paper.
Cocooned under a cloud of duvets we discover the smugness that comes from having a bed to doze in as monsoon-like rain drums on the canvas above.
The head of Barney, a black Scottish terrier who is always with the president, is visible just above the bottom of the canvas staring in a proprietary way at the artist.
