Painting Knife

The knife par excellence in a range of more than 100 models to meet the needs of all artists. The blade is made in hand ground, hardened steel to guarantee constant flexibility and top quality. Available in steel, electrolytically treated steel and in stainless steel with a functionally designed handle made in different high quality woods such as beech, bubinga and olive. It may also be customised by printing the customer's logo on the handle. New models can be studied upon the customer's specific request. IMPORTANT: When ordering, it is possible to choose different kinds of blade and handle finishing.
For the palette knife to last a long time we recommend to clean the blade with a dry cloth and keeping it in a dry place.

The best companies for fine art's instruments: Pebeo, Talens, Colart, Lefranc & Bourgeois, Apa Ferrario, Tara, Richerson, Maimeri, Daler Rowney, Winsor & Newton, Lukas, H.Schmincke.

A palette knife or fur pad to spread the paint for polychromatic shade effects. It was the Paleolithic man who first guessed the value of painting with a palette knife, imparting harmony and depth to rock paintings. However great was the change in the method of use, the materials, the painting surfaces and the spirit that led to its use, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Romans down to our days, different artists have confronted this technique, exploiting it for its expressive quality.
Tiziano used it in one of his famous self portraits and then advocates of Romanticism, such as William Turner and Théodore Géricault and then again the founder of the realist school of the nineteenth century Gustave Courbet, but it was with Impressionism and Expressionism that the palette knife technique came into its own. Francisco Goya and James Ensor both appreciated the quickness in applying it as it allowed them to layer the colour (without waiting for the oil paint to dry) and outline the brilliant appearance and glossiness of the canvas. The painted subject appeared more animated and alive.

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