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Definition of Palette knife
1. Noun. A spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints.
Definition of Palette knife
1. Noun. In painting, a small, edge-less, more or less flexible steel blade used to mix paint on a palette and sometimes to apply paint to a surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palette Knife
Literary usage of Palette knife
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R.A.: Composed Chiefly of His by Charles Robert Leslie (1845)
"They are both adopting the palette knife, while I have laid it down, but not till
I had cut my own throat with it. The Dalilah is lovely in her ..."
2. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"... inscrutable pictures, relieved by dabs of palette- knife- He is fond of savage
scenery, broken rocks, wild caverne, blasted heaths, and so or. ..."
3. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"for there are two or three of those umber- coloured blurs which come from a sketch
being inadvertently put down on a palette knife. To HIS BROTHER. ..."
4. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1836)
"A large palette knife is used to gather the colour from the stone as soon as it is
... With this is employed the palette knife, for mixing up colours on the ..."
5. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1846)
"A large palette knife is used to gather the colour from the stone as soon as it a
... With this is employed the palette knife, for mixing up colours on the ..."
6. The Painter in Oil; a Complete Treatise on the Principles and Technique by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst (1903)
"Of more immediate necessity to your painting is the palette-knife. You Palette
Knife. D cannot keep the palette clean without it. Now and again you may want ..."
7. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1883)
"The stopping knife has a shorter blade than the palette knife, and is pointed.
... A large palette knife is used to gather the colour from the stone as soon ..."
8. Materials for a History of Oil Painting by Charles Lock Eastlake (1869)
"i palette knife. THE expression of alternate sharpness and softness in the
boundaries of forms, (whether forms of substance, of light, or of colour,) is ..."
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