canvasful means the contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.
Etymology
From canvas + -ful.
noun
- The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.“When I see him at his easel, so neat and quiet, so unpretending and modest in himself, with such a composed expression on his attentive face, with such a weak white hand to guide such bold, big brushes, and when I look at the frightful canvasful of terrors which he is serenely aggravating in fierceness and intensity with every successive touch, I find it difficult to realize the connection between”