Sentence examples for patch of canvas from inspiring English sources

Starting each scene on a blank patch of canvas helps him see the whole picture fresh, he said.

If all else fails, she will cut a new patch of canvas and glue it over the old, so that she can have another go at getting the apparently artless image exactly right.

Each patch of canvas is worked and reworked with deft paintwork of miniaturist precision; cut up his works and you could derive half-a-dozen exquisite still lifes.

The bare patches of canvas on a 16th-century court scene attributed to the German painter Jörg Breu the Younger further confuse time by making the painting seem almost modern.

Rendered in bright colors, with juicy, carefully thatched strokes and forms that are often hollowed out by large holes or patched with an extra piece of canvas, these works take a longer view.

We shuffled through them, inching around the swarm of humans ranging from the oblivious to the aggressive, before turning around to retreat to our patch of khaki canvas.

In order to protect the patches and prevent their being rubbed off, a piece of canvas was sutured onto the skin and checked at least twice a day.

Scholars have understandably tended to focus on patches of the canvas -- a life, an organization, a place or an event that illuminates the American conundrum of race.

Patches of white canvas are bright rather than dim.

Craske's widow gave the Dunkirk embroidery, which she regarded as his masterpiece despite the poignant patch of bare unfinished canvas in the sky, to the Norwich Castle museum.

The confidence to allow a central patch of almost blank canvas, scratched marks, and a few marks has produced wonderful results.