Abstract: A multipurpose painter's tool having a blade and handle. The blade has an essentially circular aperture at the base edge thereof defining a collar for stripping roller sleeves from paint roller tools and is provided with an arcuate surface in a side edge of the blade for removing paint from a paint roller. At an apex in the base edge there is provided a projecting boss which cooperates with an adjacent knife edge for use in freeing plastic lids of large paint cans of the type in which the lid has an apertured depending skirt. Work areas are provided between the collar and the side edges of the blade for performing various scraping and puttying functions, opening small paint cans and tightening and loosening wing nuts. At the bottom of the handle there is provided a hammerhead for setting nail pops.