Painting knife
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A painting knife is an artist's tool with a flexible steel blade used to apply paint on the canvas.
It has a pointed tip, lowered or "cranked" like a trowel, suited for painting on canvas. The blade can be of different lengths and shapes : triangular, rectangular or more diamond like.