Sentence examples for sheets of canvas from inspiring English sources

After experimenting with photographs of fossilized ivory, acrylic paint, gesso and really big sheets of canvas, the jewelry designer Monique Péan is now painting, too.

These became the models for enormous paintings — the two here are more than 11 feet high — made exactly the same way but with paint, huge sheets of canvas and a larger work force.

They can be appreciated without a history lesson as a beautiful reminder of man's constant struggle to fill his blank spaces -- whether they be empty pages, sheets of canvas or miles of sand -- with dreams and meaning.

The New Yorker, February 21 , 1970 P. 30A man we know who entered his club for lunch the other day and worked his way around a jungle of paint pots, ladders, and large sheets of canvas tells us that he was in no way comforted by a notice on the door of the dining room, which read, "Kindly understand that you should be incinvenienced at this time".

By William D. Boutwell The New Yorker, February 21 , 1970 P. 30A man we know who entered his club for lunch the other day and worked his way around a jungle of paint pots, ladders, and large sheets of canvas tells us that he was in no way comforted by a notice on the door of the dining room, which read, "Kindly understand that you should be incinvenienced at this time".

The portraits have been transferred onto long sheets of canvas then stretched onto frames, re-enforcing the theme of the stage, the set, the painted canvas, and creating an illusion". The exhibition also includes photographs that conjure the not-so-glamorous backstage atmosphere before a production opening.

(The movies are projected on a sheet of canvas).

A thin sheet of canvas separates me from the hunting ground of Botswana's greatest predators.

Magnusson has a real gift for description – we are plunged into the hot, overcrowded pirate ship as Asta struggles to give birth under a filthy sheet of canvas.

Two defenders scrambled on to an advancing armoured personnel carrier (APC) and tried to cover its slits with a sheet of canvas.

Amid the exodus from the stadium — during which thirty or forty men unfurled an enormous, billowing sheet of canvas that had been painted with the Iraqi flag — Aymon, the oldest and coolest-headed of the four friends, explained why the Iraqi soccer team is doing so well.