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palette-knife
a. A thin flexible blade of steel fitted with a handle, of various forms, used for mixing colours on a palette, for distributing printing-ink on a surface, for spreading oil-paint on canvas, and similar purposes. Also attrib.
1759Colebrooke in Phil. Trans. LI. 46 When the ground was near dry, I smoothed it with a pallat-knife. 1785J. Reynolds Discourse to Students of R. Acad. 28 Rembrandt, in order to take the advantage of accident, appears often to have used the palate-knife [sic] to lay his colours on the canvass. 1811Self Instructor 518 Take your pallet knife..scrape your colour together. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 199 The Palette-knife, or Spatula, has a pliable blade. 1931L. Richmond Technique Oil Painting xi. 86 With palette knife painting..the charm lies to a certain extent in accidental qualities. 1938D. Sharp Student's Bk. Oil Painting vii. 45 A different style of work is palette-knife painting, and this method certainly gives a very fascinating texture to a picture. 1958Times 11 Mar. 3/4 Aix-en-Provence has a ‘Self-portrait’ with heavy impasto ascribed to Rembrandt (which arrived there in 1863 a year or two before Cézanne painted his palette-knife studies of ‘Uncle Dominique’). 1967W. Gaunt Compan. Painting 93 Some equivalent of work with the spatula may be found in the practice of palette-knife painting. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 562/1 Some modern artists, working with palette knife or fingers or squeezing paint from the tube, have treated oil paint almost as if it were a substance for modelling.
b. A similar instrument used as a culinary tool.
1889A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. iii. 41 Royal Icing... Put on to the cake with a clean palette knife. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xlvii. 1431 Scrape down the sides with a palette-knife, and with the point of the knife mix in all the material scraped down. 1951E. David French Country Cooking 20 A first-class pliable palette knife,..a selection of wooden spoons. 1975Habitat Catal. 64 Kitchen equipment... Palette knife. Wood handle, steel blade.
Hence palette-knifing, the use of a palette-knife.
1891R. Kipling Light that Failed v, I know what palette-knifing means. |