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True tempera
The paint’s creamy consistency helps it flow smoothly onto paper, cardboard, cloth, wood, or canvas and provides excellent coverage, which allows kids to use a variety of creative painting techniques. Tempera paint is popular in schools and can be used for finger painting or applied with a brush.
Impasto: An extremely thick application of oil paint.
A palette knife is a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade. The “palette” in the name is a reference to an artist’s palette which is used for mixing oil paint and acrylic paints.
Palette knife painting is a term used to describe the impasto technique of applying paint to canvas using a painting knife. 19th-century master painter Vincent van Gogh is one artist who was known to use the method.
A palette knife is a wide, flat knife with a rounded tip. It has no sharp edges. It is not meant for cutting — it is meant for lifting, spreading, and smoothing, making it more like a spatula in terms of its purpose in life. The blade will be thin and flexible, but strong, and up to 35 cm (14 inches) long.
Palette knives are useful for applying clean patches of color onto blank canvas or over an existing dry layer of paint. The blade allows you to swipe a layer of color onto the canvas in a motion that recalls a baker smoothing frosting over a cake.
When you hear “painting knife” you immediately think of oil paint, but painting and palette knives can also be used with acrylics. Because acrylics dry so fast, you don’t get the muddy mixing of colors you sometimes get with oils.
Palette Knife
Name | Grade |
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Martin/ F. Weber Bob Ross #5 Detail Painting Knife | Licensed Bob Ross product |
Multicraft Imports 5-Piece Plastic Palette Knife Set | Knifes made from plastic |
Impasto