New tools?
"Are you referring to... the oil painting knife?" Gu Weijing asked hesitantly.
Different painting tools create different final visual effects on the surface of linen canvas.
The textures and colors that soft brushes cannot handle can often be effectively addressed by changing to a different painting method.
For instance, an oil painting knife can handle the blending and transitioning of paint, scraping off thick paint and leaving streaked color spots formed by layers of thin paint overlapping and blending.
The painting knife painting mastered by Gu Weijing evolved from this.
Over a long period, an artist's creative power has no limits.
Apart from the commonly seen oil painting knives,
sturdy pen handles, sponges, cloth strips, newspapers, and even horn combs, cooking skimmers, and lipstick caps have all been studied by previous painters and used as tools for applying paint.
