Palette Knife
A palette knife is a flat, flexible metal or plastic tool used by artists to mix paint colors and apply paint to canvas with textured effects.
Fun Fact
Palette knives come in dozens of shapes and sizes, each designed for different painting techniques—from delicate detail work to bold impasto effects that create thick, sculptural paint textures.
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