I have found that using a palette knife encourages the scraping and texturing of oil paint, allowing edgy, personal marks to be made on the canvas. The results may be almost calligraphic, or signature-like in their appearance jutting out in different directions over a baseline surface of color.
Or when I scrape or define flat surfaces using the long blade of the palette knife, it helps imagine the many possible reflections and castings of shadows seen on solid matter, such as those observed on a garden bench.
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