Essential to any oil or acrylic painter’s practice is a great palette knife or painting knife. With such tools, artists can combine colors and materials in the process of creating their works.

Essential to any oil or acrylic ... is a great palette knife, or spatula. Artists employ them to combine colors, pastes, and other materials, and they can also be used to apply paint to canvas ...

"No brushes allowed," he said. Kosloskey's method uses a single palette knife to put oil paint on a canvas, rather than "a gazillion brushes for each technique." All materials are provided for ...