palette-knife

Here Courbet's palette-knife technique comes into full play; the rocky surfaces are pressed forward and our eyes seem to actually touch them.

The Born Rebel Artist Golding, John 2008

Hardly any consequential painters today are what one would properly call Tens of thousands of tourist-shop pictures and hours of televised lessons on palette-knife tricks have forced impasto'd pounding waves to break mostly over the hobbyist's couch.

Homer's Where The Heart Is 2008

Courbet came vividly alive, his forceful, assured personality embodied by his paintings 'refusal to be ingratiating; their audacity; and their varied, assertive, almost modern paint-handling -- delicate brushmarks, ferocious palette-knife work, suave transitions, abrupt slashes.

Mesmerizing Museums 2008

These days, the best art is generally bought for impure reasons -- status and investment -- while the worst art, say that palette-knife painting of a gondola in Venice, gets purchased because somebody just wants to look at it every day.

WEALTH ON THE WALL 2007

'The woman lays it on with a palette-knife,' she thought disgustedly.

Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984

Seizing a palette-knife from a neighboring tray of brushes and paints, he stabbed thrice into the canvas, ripping the picture, wickedly, from top to bottom, from side to side.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

To obtain the freedom of accident Rembrandt put on his colours with his palette-knife;

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

Judge it; and if it is condemned, remove it firmly with your palette-knife, without rubbing by rags which spoil the limpidity of the pigment.

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

What has been said with regard to Rembrandt laying on his colours with the palette-knife, is very much exaggerated.

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. John Burnet

Materials required are a palette, palette-knife, flat varnish brush, three sizes of bristle brushes, three sizes of table brushes, drying oil, mastic varnish, spirits of turpentine, Grecian varnish.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young