variants
also canvass
as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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Her canvases are bigger, her audiences larger and her outfits even sparklier.
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Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Start at La Bee da Loca for honey bee finds, then head to The Bear & The Blade for handmade outdoor goods, like wax canvas pouches and birch boxes.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
Admission is $60, including two drink tickets, appetizers, music, painting canvas and raffle ticket.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Start at La Bee da Loca for honey bee finds, then head to The Bear & The Blade for handmade outdoor goods, like wax canvas pouches and birch boxes.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
Admission is $60, including two drink tickets, appetizers, music, painting canvas and raffle ticket.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Typically originating on a large canvas, the art often incorporates acrylic paint and graphics pulled from old textbooks and newspapers, emergency manuals, and junk-shop magazines.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
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The art news website ArtNet even pointed out that the scene in season 3 of White Lotus in which Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Woods are floating dead in the water appears to invoke the Millais painting.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Noir is a quaint coffee shop where white walls are a canvas for paintings by a rotation of local artists.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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