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The Liquitex range of large palette knives offers artists a versatile and high-quality set of tools designed to enhance their creative process. These palette knives provide a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing for precise application, detailed work, and broad, sweeping strokes. They are perfect for techniques such as mixing colours, creating textures, and applying thick layers of paint, scraping and sgraffito techniques. Using palette knives for painting on a canvas or on a thick paper, provides unique textures and marks that you just can’t create with a brush.
These high quality palette knives have been crafted with the finest, brushed, stainless steel blades that resist all wear and corrosion from any media, including acrylics. The larger blades have been riveted into the handles for extra durability and longevity. In addition, the ergonomically designed handle adds increased comfort and grip to every application, avoiding hand fatigue after long use.
The Liquitex large palette knives ensure longevity and ease of use, catering to both detailed and large-scale projects. Their ergonomic design and flexibility enable artists to experiment with a range of effects, from fine lines and intricate details to bold, expressive marks, significantly expanding the possibilities for artistic expression.
Liquitex offers a range of large palette knives, each designed for different techniques, methods and effects in painting. Here is a list of the functions for each Liquitex palette knife numbered 1 to 18:
No. 1 (Round Square) Spatula
Ideal for spreading paint smoothly over large areas, blending and creating soft edges. Scooping paint out of paint pots and mixing paint on the canvas or palette.
Blade Size: 10cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 2 (Larger Round Square)
Great for spreading paint smoothly over large areas, blending, and creating soft edges. Perfect for scooping large amounts of paint out of buckets, tubs or for mixing large quantities on a palette or on the canvas.
Blade Size:12cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 3 (Rounded Edge Palette Knife)
Palette knife with a rounded end and extended blade length. Used for spreading large amounts of paint really fast and creating broader strokes and soft blending. Great for putting on a ground colour onto a large canvas. This knife can even cut soft clay.
Blade Size: 14cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 4 (Wide Round Ended Palette Knife)
Palette knife with a wider blade than no 3. Used for spreading even larger amounts of thick paint and sgraffito techniques. Excellent for blending colours on large canvases or for getting large amounts of paint from paint tins and tubs, great for mixing paint in tubs. Excellent for mixing paint on a palette. Great for laying ground colours down fast onto a canvas. This knife can even cut soft clay.
Blade Size:12.7cm knife, 11.9cm handle
No. 5 (Small Diamond Trowel)
Good for creating fine lines, sharp details, and controlled strokes, ideal for intricate designs and filling geometric shapes. Great for sgraffito, and scraping techniques or scraping dried paint off the palette.
Blade Size: 10cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle)
No. 6 (Large Diamond Shaped Trowel)
This diamond shaped Trowel knife has sharper edges than the other knives. Holds larger amounts of paint. Excellent for creating sharp, edge, shapes on the canvas, moving and shaping impasto paints. The point can be used to create small details.
Blade Size: 13cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 7 (Liquitex Scraper Palette/Painting Knife)
This palette knife is stiffer than the other palette knives. It works really well at providing additive and subtractive techniques. Adding paint onto the surface or taking paint off the canvas. This scraper palette knife is also great for moving paint and using for scumbling techniques.
Blade Size:11.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 8 (Liquitex Scraper Palette/Painting Knife with Serrated Edge)
This palette knife is stiffer than the other palette knives. It works really well at providing additive and subtractive techniques. Adding paint onto the surface or taking paint off the canvas. This scraper knife is also great for creating textured lines and marks deep into the paint.
Blade Size:12cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 9 (Liquitex Scraping and Trowel Palette/Painting Knife)
This is a flat palette knife, but is ideal for scraping, scratching, spreading and mixing paint. It has crisp sharp edges for shaping paint and a small point for adding texture or cutting through thick impasto.
Blade Size: 13.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 10 (Liquitex Triangular Spatula/Painting Knife)
Excellent palette knife for laying down colours, mixing and blending thick paint or thin paint on the canvas with the side of the spatula. Use the edge to spread then flatten the spatula out to mix the colours together. The rounded tip can be used for mark making or pushing small amounts of paint around the canvas, and for creating some dedicated areas and passages of colour.
Blade Size:14cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 11 (Liquitex Triangular Spatula /Painting Knife) - Larger Than No. 10
Excellent palette knife for laying down a lot of colours, mixing and blending thick paint or thin paint on the canvas with the side of the spatula. Use the edge to spread then flatten the spatula out to mix the colours together. The rounded tip can be used for mark making or pushing small amounts of paint around the canvas, and for creating some dedicated areas and passages of colour.
Blade Size: 15cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 12 (Liquitex Angled Chisel Palette/Painting Knife)
A smaller palette knife than no 13 with an angled chisel edge. Ideal for making angled strokes, detailed lines, and cutting into paint for fine edges and textures. Excellent for scumbling thicker paint over thinner applications.
Blade Size:13cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 13 (Liquitex Angled Chisel Palette/Painting Knife)
A larger palette knife than no 12 with an angled chisel edge. Ideal for making angled strokes, detailed lines, and cutting into paint for fine edges and textures. Excellent for scumbling thicker paint over thinner applications.
Blade Size:15cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 14 (Liquitex Angled Palette/Painting Knife).
Elongated blade with a small chiselled edge and a round point. Good for angled strokes, cutting into paint for sharp edges, and detailed work. Strong flexible knife.
Blade Size:20.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 15 (Liquitex Palette/Painting Trowel)
This distinct trowel has curved edges with a sharp point. Great for mixing large amounts of paint on the palette, incising lines into thick paint, moving paint around on the canvas and bending. It is also good for creating shapes and curved lines in a thick impasto.
Blade Size:15.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 16 (Liquitex Palette/Painting Knife)
Thin extended blade with a round tip. Useful for large, sweeping strokes, mixing paint, and covering large canvas areas efficiently. Great for spreading and blending paint.
Blade Size:16.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
No. 17 (Liquitex Palette/Painting Knife)
Large extended blade palette knife with a round tip. Used for heavier applications of paint. Great for covering large areas with a coloured ground. Excellent for spreading and blending thick and thin paint.
Blade Size: 20.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle)
No. 18 (Liquitex Palette/Painting Knife)
The largest extended blade palette knife with a round tip. Used for heavier applications of paint. Great for covering large areas with a coloured ground. Excellent for spreading and blending thick and thin paint.
Blade Size:25.5cm | (plus 12.5cm Handle).
Each of these palette knives can be used in various techniques such as impasto, scumbling, sgraffito, and other textural effects, depending on the artist's needs and creative vision.
Offset Blades keep knuckles from getting too close to the surface and spoiling the wet paint already laid down. This Trowel shaped blade has a sharper edge, ideal for painting more geometric shapes and creating sharp lines and intricate details with the point.
Using the rounded shape of the Larger Palette Knife to create interesting thick impasto shapes. Excellent for applying large amounts of paint to the canvas and spreading to create an undercoat.
Using the serrated edge of the Scraper Palette Knife provided some excellent organic textures.
Each blade has its own characteristics, whether it be a Spatula Shape, Trowel Shape, or Scraper. Their unique shapes provide a plethora of techniques and methods for the avid painter.
Working on canvases with Liquitex large palette knives can significantly enhance your artistic practice by allowing for greater control and versatility in applying and manipulating paint. These knives enable artists to create bold, expressive strokes and intricate textures, adding depth and dimension to their work. The broad, sturdy blades of Liquitex palette knives are perfect for mixing and spreading both acrylic and oil paints, encouraging experimentation with new techniques and styles. This hands-on, tactile approach fosters a deeper connection with the medium, inspiring innovation and artistic growth.
Below we have compiled a list of canvases which are perfect partners for the Liquitex palette knives.
- ARTdiscount PREMIUM Stretched BLACK Canvas - Standard Profile
- NEW ARTdiscount Premium STANDARD PROFILE Stretched Canvases 420gsm - Multi-Packs
- NEW ARTdiscount Premium DEEP EDGE 38mm profile Stretched Canvases 420gsm (Multi-Packs)
- Pintura Gallery 45 Range of Professional Artists Canvas
- Daler-Rowney Premium Artists Stretched Canvas - Standard profile - Multi Packs
- Daler-Rowney Premium Artists' Stretched Canvas - 3D Chunky Profile - Multi Packs
- Daler-Rowney Primed Canvas Roll
- Winsor & Newton PROFESSIONAL Deep Edge Profile Cotton Traditional Canvases
- Winsor & Newton CLASSIC Deep Edge Profile Cotton Canvases - Multipack
- Seawhite Stretched Canvas - Deep Edge - Multi-Packs
