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Most ASBI painting are executed with pure white backgrounds as it is often a requirement for exhibition. Because it is so difficult to photograph botanicals with this background , one often sees pale colors where only white should appear.

Actually a lot of time is spent trying to get accurate color along with a pure white background when reproducing traditional botanicals.

Hope this explains the tints,

Gwen

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On Dec 13, 2009, at 8:17 PM, ball wrote:

I have been looking at botanical illustration images on member gallery pages on the Amer. Soc. of Botanical Illustration http://amsocbotartists.org. It is a very educational and inspiring site and I recognize many GNSI members that have work posted there.

What I was wondering is if someone could tell me if the lightly colored backgrounds (usually lt grey, blue, yellow, peach, or green) are intentional or product of the process of photographing the original art? The backgrounds look very even, could these colors be reflection of color from the artwork, paper, room, or product of light source or film type? If intensional, how is the uniform color achieved (airbrushed?) and how much masking would be used?

Thanks,

-Sue

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