I only used a palette knife once in a painting... and I hated it. It was an assigned painting. We weren't allowed to use a brush at all... only the palette knife. Accck! The painting was to be abstract. Accck! Acccck! And finally, the color palette was limited to a dominant single color with a compliment limited to less than 10% of the canvas. Acccck! Acccck! Acccck!
![Tired face :tired_face: 😫](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twemoji/14.0.2/72x72/1f62b.png)
I ended up getting the best grade on this painting that I had earned all semester.
![Confounded face :confounded: 😖](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twemoji/14.0.2/72x72/1f616.png)
![Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile: 😄](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twemoji/14.0.2/72x72/1f604.png)
The closest I have gotten to the palette knife since has been the use of sandpaper to create a weathered surface and reveal subsequent layers of paint.