Sentence examples for worked on a canvas from inspiring English sources

If needlepoint is worked on a canvas that has 16 to 20 or more mesh holes per linear inch, the embroidery is called petit point; if the number of holes ranges from 7 or 8 to 16 squares per inch, it is called gros point; and, if the mesh openings are fewer than 7, it is known as quick point.

Choose from working on a canvas, contributing to a community mural or painting on one of London's five "legal walls".

She broke down a wall to make a painting studio in her bedroom, so that she can work on a canvas whenever the creative urge strikes.

2. Channel Jude Law's playboy self-confidence in the Talented Mr Ripley, mixed with Picasso, topless and smoking while working on a canvas in the south of France.

In Worthington Whittredge's 1861 "Portrait of an Artist With an Easel," a painter works on a canvas in a little clearing in the woods, his auburn beard a match for the foliage.

She was working on a canvas with a lot of colors in the second layer, washes of color, but one day she came in and found she "absolutely hated it".

Yuskavage was working on a canvas of a voluptuous, kneeling nude, whose title was "Big Blonde Jerking Off," and Simmons took pictures of both girls in front of it.

The painter is now working on a canvas based on a Mario Sorrenti photograph that appeared in W. "The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with," he said in his TriBeCa apartment and studio last week.

On the other hand when you work on a canvas it has to stand for itself".

In both paintings the artist is shown working on a canvas, of which only the rear is visible.

"Music works with sounds like a brush works on a canvas (or a pen on a screen in my case).