Why You Need Other Tools
While brushes allow you to apply color, you can refine your technique and unlock new possibilities with other tools. These tools expand your skills by offering benefits like:
- Additional textural variety
- More controlled and smooth paint application
- Bolder and cleaner strokes
- Layered color with less disruption of other paint
- Experimentation with new application techniques
- More opportunities for using mixed media
Our Curated Collection of Creative Essentials
Whatever artist tools you need to expand your set, we have them all. Trekell offers tools in varying sizes and shapes to give you the right fit for your project. We also provide a complete set of alternative brushes, including a shaper, palette knife and wipe-out tool in one.
Shapers
Paint shapers look like a silicone paintbrush with a color shaper tip rather than bristles. We offer this tool in various widths — 1, 1.5 and 2 inches. All brushes have a 6-inch handle, which gives a comfortable grip and precise control. These tools work with media like:
- Acrylic
- Oil
- Gouache
- Ink
- Enamel paint
Use this tool to blend, shape, add texture and smooth paint. The material also creates unique marks and can push and pull paint. Other applications include adding masking fluid to your work.
Palette and Paint Knives
Painting and palette knives are hard metal tools with a blade. Traditionally, palette knives are straight and mix paint on a palette, while painting knives have an angular blade for applying paint to a canvas. These tools work for oil, acrylics, oil and other media.
Trekell offers six knives in these shapes:
- Multi-angle
- Long spatula
- Thin teardrop
- Wide teardrop
- Rounded teardrop
- Diamond
The knives have a stainless steel blade and a rubber handle for comfortable grip. Each shape has unique applications. Typical uses include picking up paint from the palette, adding texture to a painted surface, creating edges, scraping paint off a surface and placing paint over other wet layers without disturbing them.
Wipe Out Tool
The wipe out tool includes a cylindrical handle with rubberized tips on either side. One is a wedge, and the other is pointed. Use it for:
- Removing paint from precise areas
- Creating text or intricate designs
- Carving into the edges of wet paint
- Sharpening linear edges
- Adding highlights
This tool works with media like oil, gouache, acrylic, ink and enamel paint. The wipe out tool can also be used with pastels and charcoal, making it valuable for any artist.
Elevate Your Art With Trekell
At Trekell, we love artists and create a community where you can thrive. Our commitment expands to our products as we strive for quality and innovative designs that allow you to reimagine your art. We are woman-owned and majority woman-operated. Almost 40 years of producing brushes means we have the expertise to provide dependable supplies focused on excellence.
Shop Supplies for Your Next Masterpiece
Whether you want a mistake eraser or a tool for adding texture, find it among our artist tools for painting — and get Bristle Bucks for rewards to use on future purchases.
