Sentence examples for canvas laid from inspiring English sources

A square panel with painted nails on canvas laid on board that followed was bought with the same equanimity.

How, from flinging paint on a canvas laid on the ground, did he create such beauty and inner structure?

Scores of nails are stuck into canvas laid on panel, conveying the impression of a swirling movement that is vaguely suggestive of a bird in flight.

Frankenthaler, who died last year, was known for having refined a technique of pouring pigment directly onto canvas laid on the floor, an approach developed by Jackson Pollock.

(102.7 x 67 cm); Portrait of My Sister, Carrie W. Stettheimer, oil on canvas laid on hardboard backing, 37 7/8 x 26 in.

(96.2 x 66.2 cm); and Portrait of My Sister, Ettie Stettheimer, oil on canvas laid on hardboard backing, 40 3/8 x 26 1/4 in.

Uninspired by the glossy floor tiles used in most homes in Cambodia, Mr. Escudier turned the floor into a huge, white cement canvas, laying circular plastic molds of various sizes and filling them with pink, red and blue pigments.

The canvas was laid on a bed of sawhorses and tended to like a wealthy, but terminal, patient.

Drawn on canvas or laid out with ropes, a medieval labyrinth is intricate but still easy to follow.

Fresh canvas was laid out for a second version, and I traced the familiar image of the egg and its thousand jagged reflections by hand, in pencil, still in shock.

But crucially, where his enamel paint was typically puddled thickly on to the canvas, her pigment – at this stage, oils thinned with turpentine – was poured gently on to raw canvas so that as it sank beneath the unprimed surface, it became an integral part of the canvas, not something laid on the surface.