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.

A good palette knife can open up a whole new world of formal experimentation for any painter, regardless of their medium. Below, browse our favorites. From acrylic paint maker Liquitex this line ...

Renderings of landscape and still life ... such as graphic art, herbs and dried flowers, and poetry. Prall, originally a watercolorist, also works in oil with palette knife, acrylic, pencil ...

He still plays and records music in local studios, such as Playtown Sound Productions. Even though he teaches art now, Kosloskey didn't begin palette knife painting until 1999, at the age of 50.

Cincinnati Art Museum’s chief conservator Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the institution’s prized Paul Cézanne painting “Still Life ... using a palette knife to apply ...