Palette Knife Meanderings

Some of my favorite paintings of my own have been created using palette knives. Somewhere along the way, years back, I picked one of my wife's knives up and slathered paint on a canvas. That was pretty much the advancement of my technique until a year or so ago, when I began to pay more attention to what I could say with paint using the knives' edges: action, energy, intention, direction. It is a style of applying paint I bring a consciousness to now every time I run a knife through a glob of paint.  This painting - "Parrots, Palms, and Purples" - is the latest example of my intent to energize, in this case, the paper. I would love to hear your thoughts.