Palette knife

A palette knife (also palette knife or Malspachtel ) is a tool that is used in the painting.

The palette knife is used to mix colors on the palette or to much applied color to remove them from the screen. Especially with the impasto technique and the use of particularly pasty colors, it is also used for paint application. It can be generated directly with the mission structures and plasticity.

Palette Knife consist usually of a wooden handle to which a brass ferrule an elastic blade is attached. The blade is angled so that the guiding hand can be kept parallel to the screen surface. It is made of stainless steel. Palette Knives are available with different spatula blades. The differences are in the length of the blade and in the form that can be interpreted pointed or flat symmetrical or asymmetrical.

Palette knife can also be made ​​entirely of plastic.

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