Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Old, perish plastic credit cards have abundant uses as a tool for oil painting. A few of them are:

  1. To get in a straight line boundaries.

  2. Generating painting "knives" which may be curved and/or cut with a cutters or penknife to any shape.

  3. Ditto for sgraffito. A method where a top most layer of color is scratched to make known a colors beneath. The word comes from the Italian word sgraffire meaning "to scrape".

  4. Scratching paint off a watercolor.

  5. Clearout the palette.

  6. Bent at a right angle to slant a soggy brush on.

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