There are many kinds and brands of oil painting pens on the market now. Generally speaking, there are bristles, wolf hair, mink hair and nylon. Bristle is the basic pen for oil painting, which is suitable for large-scale painting and can form a variety of strokes and textures. The best bristle oil painting pen should be about 3-5 cm, yellow and translucent. Squirrel brand oil painting pens made in Shanghai in the early years were very good, but now they are hard to buy, because pigs are slaughtered in a short time and there is no long mane to use as pens. What I use now is Japanese. Now the domestic wolf hair and mink hair oil painting pens are much better. The pen tip does not have to be very long, and the standard is 2-3 cm. High-quality soft-wool oil painting pen requires that the nib be re-wetted and the hair will not spread to both sides. Just keep the nib flat by hand. I use a brand' Dafuhao' made in Shanghai, with a rustic name but excellent workmanship, and a set of 7 blue pens 145 yuan. As for nylon oil painting pen, I personally don't recommend it, because the nib of nylon oil painting pen is very hard, and it is difficult to draw rich strokes in the painting process. The most fatal thing is that once the bristles are deformed, they can't be recovered at all.

Oil painting pens on the market now can be divided into: flat-headed pens, round-headed pens (used by ancient masters), fan-shaped pens and so on.

Wash the oil painting pen thoroughly after use every day, drain the water, and wrap it into a pen shape with newspaper for later use, so that your oil painting pen can be used as well as the new one every time (this is highly recommended based on years of experience).

Finally, it suddenly occurred to me that there is a kind of wolf's hair oil painting pen with yellow pen on the market, which is very poor. It will take three to five days to ensure that you can draw any details of the Ministry with it.