I was once given a rare book and loaned a coloured copy to work from by an
old lady scientist but my librarian friends and colleagues said I would
lessen the value of the book if I coloured it.
Are you working on loose-leaf originals or on copies? I'm afraid I can't
encourage the break up of old books for the print trade even if the
colouring is done well.
Geoff

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Subject: [SCIART] Antique Botanicals

Wanted to share with you some of the work I do, in an even narrower niche 
than botanical painting. Hand-coloring rare, antique, botanical prints &

engravings.  

I am posting them to a blog, working on that site for months. But this, one
of 
my favorties, can be viewed at Flicker: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cynthiapadilla/4497556054/

Would this be a topic of lecture/workshop/demo/trunk show exhbition interest

at a conference? Just musing....

Cynthia

Cynthia Padilla, leading botanical arts workshops across TX, NM, CO, CT, MA,

MO, KS, Canada, Central America, Internationally: 
http://www.artinstructor.blogspot.com/

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