Sentence examples for canvas spread from inspiring English sources

After the seed lac is melted, strained through canvas, spread, cooled, and flaked, it becomes the shellac of commerce.

Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden huts, connected by a canvas spread across their roofs.

The black-and-white shots showing Pollock pouring liquid paint and sand directly on canvas spread on the studio floor (the so-called drip technique that made him famous) were taken by Martha Holmes.

The most extraordinary painting offered, estimated to sell for around $300,000, will be an enormous western desert painting, "Ngurrara Canvas No. 1". Some 26 feet wide by 23 feet deep, it was painted in 1996 by 19 men and women working on a canvas spread out in a remote part of the Great Western Desert in the state of Western Australia.

Armstrong did not have an inch of canvas spread, so there was no need to worry about running gear or to man the helm.

Inside the circular structure, which is supported by lattice walls and wood rafters, jars of paint surround canvas spread across the hardwood floor.

This year, Chevalier's canvas spreads across the floor of Middleton Hall plaza of the Milton Keynes Shopping Center. .

"Moat" (1963) reinforces its flatness with striations, the result of the lines of the floorboards on which the canvas was spread.

A black spot appeared on the canvas and spread out in a sort of smoking puddle that gave rise to tiny flames.

Here, as the actors enter Santo Loquasto's elegant circular arena, where canvas is spread across the floor as in a circus ring, spotlights isolate a toy train, a hobbyhorse, and a miniature table and chairs.

(Greenberg said that we should reject seeing chance imagery in abstract art, but he didn't say how). "Moat" (1963) reinforces its flatness with striations, the result of the lines of the floorboards on which the canvas was spread.