What is the difference between oil smoke ink and pine smoke ink?

The difference between oil and smoke ink and pine smoke ink is as follows:

The main fuel for oil and smoke ink is tung oil, rapeseed oil, sesame oil and other vegetable oils, because the oil fuel evaporates after combustion of the carbon black contains lipids, so the ink has a glossy abrasion, which is more suitable for painting and calligraphy, writing lines, the regular script brush strokes are smooth, painting landscapes, flowers and birds, the ink is bright and moist and has a The color of the ink is bright and vivid. Pine ink is mainly made of pine wood as fuel, and its smoke is taken to make ink. Compared with oil smoke, pine smoke is black but without luster.

Anciently take the Huangshan Mountain for many years of pine as fuel, wood has a certain amount of turpentine, so the early years of the pine ink than pure oil smoke ink color has another flavor, which is the reason why Huimo ink is famous in the world. But now the Huangshan Mountain not allowed to cut down pine trees, so now the pure pine ink is often burned pine tree branches, although black, but a lot less bright.

General pine ink is cheaper than oil ink, but encountered a good pine should actually be more expensive than oil. Pine ink has no luster, so it is generally used in painting, such as painting landscape paintings of distant mountains with a sense of pallor, paintings of people with a special texture of sideburns and so on.

In the picture above, the left side is the topography of pine ink, and the right side is the topography of oil smoke ink. The pine-smoke topography looks deep and dull, and the oil-smoke looks rich and dark. Of course, calligraphy creationa can also use pine smoke ink, easy to express the ink color of the intensity of the change or the sense of ancient simplicity Xiao Yuan. Suitable for writing large grass, Weibei, cliffs carved stonea and other works of pale atmosphere. And again, the numbering of raw materials for ink making. If we go to buy ink ingots, we will often see the top of the ink labeled "oil smoke 101", "oil smoke 102" and other words.