There are many pens that can be used to draw oil paintings, such as bristle pen, wolf pen, fiber pen, mink pen, nylon pen and so on. Generally, the most commonly used oil painting pens are bristle pens and fiber pens, because they are durable and relatively cheap.

The pen in the oil painting is hard and strong, usually brown.

Bristle pen is the most basic pen in oil painting, which can form a variety of strokes and textures, and is also suitable for large-scale painting. The best bristle oil painting brush hair should be about 3-5 cm, yellow in color and translucent in luster.

If economic conditions permit and you want to pursue good results, you can choose mink brush. Because the sable brush has moderate hardness, it has no heavy strokes. Draw rough details with a mink brush.

Oil painting pens can be divided into round-headed pens, flat-headed pens and fan-shaped pens according to the shape of the pen head. Ancient masters generally used round-headed pens.

If arranged by size, there are 12 kinds of oil painting pens, namely 1- 12.

There is no standard, uniform and consistent answer to the choice of oil painting pen, which mainly depends on the author's painting techniques. Different oil painting pens have great differences in function.

Oil painting pens should be thoroughly cleaned after use every day, squeezed out of water, and wrapped in newspaper according to the pen shape for later use.