on the canvas

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The paint is slathered on the canvas, but deftly so; the individual slabs of color, for which he became famous, are almost like carpentry in a complex composition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

There is every chance that the fight will end with one man on the canvas and, after then, my priority will be to console the loser first - I can't be jumping around celebrating.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The scratching alerts us to what will be increasingly vigorous attacks on the canvas surface—scraping, rubbing, incising fine lines—emphasizing the character of her paintings as objects, rather than representations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

Sometimes, Goode included a contour drawing of the bottle behind it on the canvas, suggesting that one is the projection of the other.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

And then I’m in the dream again, just outside the ropes of a boxing ring, and on the canvas, in the haze and lights, my grandfather faces off against a hollowgast.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs