canvas
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A maid of honor to the queen passes the time with canvas work.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
Penelope looked at the canvas: the colors, the brushstrokes, the composition.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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