How to Use palette knife in a Sentence
palette knife
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Use a long metal palette knife to spread the glaze over the top of the cake.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
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Spread in an even layer with the oiled offset palette knife.
—ExpressNews.com, 2 Dec. 2020
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My brushes and palette knife are the scalpels of a skillful surgeon.
—courant.com, 28 Oct. 2019
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Level the tops of the soufflés with a palette knife, then place onto a baking tray and bake in the oven for 8 minutes.
—Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 20 May 2021
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Using a small offset palette knife or a piping bag, spread the frosting over the cake layer and make a dam around it.
—Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
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Spread cooked chocolate mint filling in the middle, level it with a palette knife.
—Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
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When cooked leave them in the tins for only about 30 seconds, then loosen the edges by sliding a palette knife all round and turn them onto a wire cooling rack.
—Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2021
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In a moment that has now passed into ball-design legend, Pinel grabbed the core, which was still soft because the polyester had yet to cure, and sliced off the ends with a palette knife.
—Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 27 May 2021
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Then, using a palette knife, spread it all around to make beautiful, colorful swirls.
—Lauren Matthews, Country Living, 8 Feb. 2018
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In each frame, the team of artists mimicked the thick layers of oil paint that Vincent mixed on his canvases with his palette knife and hands through a technique called impasto.
—Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
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She's been applying that paint with a palette knife, giving these works a three-dimension texture.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018
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The Globe chatted with Cross about her upcoming exhibit, love of portraiture, and palette knife skills.
—Chris Triunfo, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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The flavor of the members’ show is typified by the imaginary forest scenes of Eileen Dorsey, painted in gooey palette knife textures and cake-icing colors.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
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The surfaces are nervous and brightly acidic in feeling; the paint, laid on with a palette knife, deliciously resembles cake frosting.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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After the demonstration, there will be a workshop in oils using palette knives from 1 to 4 p.m. The workshop is open to both beginners and advanced painters, members and nonmembers.
—Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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Some of these—cake-icing-thick—are painted with a palette knife and heavily impastoed, proof that Cézanne was among the original expressionists.
—Lance Esplund, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
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Oil a 9-inch square baking pan, a rubber spatula and an offset palette knife. Combine the granulated sugar, corn syrup, honey, and water in a 2-quart saucepan.
—ExpressNews.com, 2 Dec. 2020
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This exhibition still showcases his extraordinary atmospheric effects — a sunset in a wash of mauve oils, a squall rendered with a few strokes of a palette knife.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
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Often executed with a palette knife, his paintings literally conveyed their messages in broad strokes.
—Vogue, 12 June 2018
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