Today’s Tool: Palette Scraper
Although some artists love to paint with them, one of the primary purposes of a palette knife is cleaning our palettes.
Even though I do use mine for scraping up wet paint piles to save for later, a palette knife doesn’t work nearly as well for the serious cleaning jobs as a razor scraper.
I’ve used this one for decades. For a couple years I used a small plastic one, but it was tough to hold and eventually broke.
A Metal Razor Palette Scraper – this one is a couple decades old!
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