The fan brush is a specialist shape that produces effects difficult to achieve with any other brush. Its spread bristles blend paint across a surface with a soft, feathered touch, making it effective for smoothing transitions between colours and softening hard edges without overworking the paint. In texture work, the same spread allows the brush to create marks that suggest foliage, grass, fur, wood grain and other natural textures with a single stroke. Fan brushes are also used for dry brushing techniques, where a lightly loaded brush dragged across a textured surface picks up the raised areas and leaves the recesses untouched. A focused selection of synthetic, hog hair and natural fibre options suited to acrylic, oil and watercolour work. For the full brush and painting tool selection, visit Paintbrushes and Brushes and Painting Tools.
