canvas
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Marked by veils of heavily diluted color that are rubbed into the canvas weave to create a weightless, matte effect, its soft, evanescent surface was intended to read, Whistler said, “like breath on glass.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Figma aims to bring new capabilities to the platform “and become the canvas for full-stack creation,” Melwani told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The canvas carried their names too, alongside the words 'My Brother's Keeper'.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
It’s also mild in flavor, making it an exceptional canvas for seasoning and aromatics.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Wonder Dome was just a blank canvas.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Whether that was playing on stage with the band, drawing, or painting huge canvases, he was never “sitting around, doing nothing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Were the Angel children their sculptures, their canvases, their creations to be put on display for all the world to see and admire?
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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