Usage Note
Malspachtel (also Palettenmesser) is a flexible blade used to mix paint on the palette or apply paint directly to canvas in a broad, textured manner. Masculine noun; common tool in oil and acrylic painting.
Examples
"Mit dem Malspachtel trug er die Farbe in dicken Schichten auf."
Natural Translation
With the palette knife he applied the paint in thick layers.
Literal Translation
With the painting-knife he applied the paint in thick layers.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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