Painting knives open up an entirely different way of working with colour.
Where a brush deposits and spreads, a knife imposes: it presses, stretches, scrapes and builds up paint to create textured surfaces, relief and effects that cannot be achieved any other way. DeSerres offers palette and painting knives in multiple shapes and sizes, designed for mixing, applying and scraping paint with precision, whether for impasto, textured surfaces or expressive mark-making.
Palette knife or painting knife: what is the difference?
The palette knife has a straight, flexible blade, ideal for mixing colours on the palette without contaminating brushes and for preparing smooth, consistent mixes in larger quantities. The painting knife has an angled handle and a more pointed blade, designed to apply paint directly to the canvas: a pure colour can be laid down in a thick flat stroke, fresh layers can be overlapped to create blends, or a surface can be scraped back to reveal the layer beneath. Different blade shapes, pointed, rounded or diamond, produce distinct marks and textures depending on the gesture and pressure applied. For more options, explore our Paint and Painting Accessories collections.
