Sentence examples for canvas setting from inspiring English sources

"Still Life With Photo" (1930) stacks a series of echoing forms charged with domestic meaning into a narrow canvas, setting a relatively realistic sepia-tone family photograph against the sculptural robustness of all else, including a big, colorfully glazed ceramic bowl.

Ms. Welish, painting within the boundaries of the traditional canvas, sets up dialogues between grid systems in primary colors and black and white.

Today, she has her canvas set up in the living room, and a woman's face is slowly emerging.

With the canvas set up as described and a fire built in front of the opening, they were so warm that they had to take their coats off.

The artist behind the robot starts a canvas by setting down poles, which the robot uses as markers to finely calculate its position.

INVITATIONS The invitation can be the first glimpse into the wedding celebration and serve as a miniature canvas in setting the tone for friends and family.

My own experience shows that it's not the lack of motivation or the unwillingness to do something hard that cause our distractions -- it's the difficulty of making the first step, be it the writing of the first sentence of an essay or a book, putting the first brushstroke on a canvas, or setting up some small business or online shop.

Ensure that you do not scratch the decorated side of the canvas when setting it into the frame.

Some of the apprentices live in canvas tents set up on concrete pads; others design and build dwellings.

In the capitol building, he had a large canvas tent set up on the inner patio that is encircled by his horseshoe-shaped office complex, and invited legislators there to smoke cigars.

At oakridgehobbies.com, I found a selection of Craft House's Masterpiece Canvas series sets, featuring stretched canvases on frames, tubes of oil paint, a mixing tray and brushes (prices ranged from $15 to $21.99 per set).