Sentence examples for working on a canvas from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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