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What (who) is palette knife - definition
Palette knife
ARTIST'S EQUIPMENT
Pallette knife; Palette-knife
A palette knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade. It is primarily used for applying paint to the canvas, mixing paint colors, adding texture to the painted surface, paste, etc.
palette knife
ARTIST'S EQUIPMENT
Pallette knife; Palette-knife
(palette knives)
A palette knife is a knife with a broad, flat, flexible blade, used in cookery and in oil painting.
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palette knife
ARTIST'S EQUIPMENT
Pallette knife; Palette-knife
¦ noun
1. a thin steel blade with a handle for mixing colours or applying or removing paint.
2. Brit. a kitchen knife or spatula with a long, flexible round-ended blade.
Examples of use of palette knife
1. It is a very delicate operation, even assuming you know what a palette knife is and have one handy.
2. Some egg whisking and seasoning action followed and then: "After one minute use a palette knife to draw the outside of the omelette inwards and let the liquid egg escape to the edges." Have you ever tried doing this?
3. In the latter, the painter‘s attempt to render the creamy foam sliding and boiling through the dark rocks produces a veritable delirium of raw white, slathered on with a palette knife.
4. He quotes a vivid line from Kandinsky describing the experience of painting in this way and once again using a musical metaphor: "I had little thought for houses and trees, drawing coloured lines and blobs on the canvas with my palette knife, and making them sing just as powerfully as I knew how." Although Kandinsky‘s hyper–Romantic language of musical and sensual connections is vivid and often original, it was also of its time.