a.k.a lower class solutions to upper class problems.

Have you ever been half way through painting your oil portrait when your butler informs you that your palette knife has in fact disappeared and the carriage in which you ride into town to buy your supplies is already in use. All you can do is take another sip of tea and wallow in your upper class problems.

But alas, no longer.
there is a solution!

The humble clear plastic spoon is your saviour!
In fact, you can now look right through your knife... er... spoon and see exactly where you will hit, how much paint you have picked up, and use all its different grades and angles to get exactly what you want! neat!