From Marion Boddy-Evans,
Your Guide to Painting.
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Old, expired plastic credit cards have numerous uses as a tool for oil painting (be sure to deface the information on the card!). Some of which are:

• To get straight edges.
• Creating painting "knives" which may be bent and/or cut with a scissors or knife to any contour.
• Ditto for sgraffito.
• Scraping paint off a canvas.
• Cleaning the palette.
• Bent at a right angle to lean a wet brush on.

Tip from: Mickey Oberman

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