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!

I ended up getting the best grade on this painting that I had earned all semester.


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.