Sentence examples for canvas ground from inspiring English sources

A looser example -- probably Wheeler's -- of the firm's work is a textile panel with motifs of Chinese-style clouds and chrysanthemums scattered across a silk canvas ground.

Mr. Noland's "Half Way" (1964), a diamond shape divided by a chevron of color bands on a raw canvas ground, is a tour de force of interacting colors.

From the lowermost to the uppermost layer: newer canvas, original canvas, ground layer (calcium sulphate), male portrait, Ecce Homo, varnish.

Once figurative paintings by artist friends who deemed their own work "failed," Büchler scraped the dry paint off each canvas, ground it with a mortar and pestle, and reapplied it to the canvas.

By the time we get to the last canvas, the ground and trees and patches of light between the trunks have been slewed together into a muddle of paint, as though in impatience or annoyance.

She concentrates on aggrandizing the pictorial, to the point of incorporating actual paintings, in mediums including ceramic-slip glaze on paper or unstretched canvas, as grounds for wall reliefs of curved shards and shelved vessel forms.

But in that pre-Chris Ofili world, I couldn't envisage standing a canvas on the ground".

Mashing, skidding and smearing piles of paint around canvas on the ground, he created a distinctive sense of speed, chaos and texture.

In the late 1990s he made a series called Sheep Paintings, for which he placed a large canvas on the ground in a sheep pasture with a sheep lick placed in the middle of the canvas.

At first, an illusion of depth was achieved by painting perspective scenery on canvas; then the ground plan of the set was rearranged to envelop the actor with the set.

The first permanent arrivals at the camp built simple shelters of hazel sticks and canvas on the ground, as well as rudimentary treehouses as high as they dared to live.