Was the color original? A (very crude) analysis of color in Herbal A and Herbal B

[Koen G]

Welcome to the forum! Nice to see another color enthusiast here.

The difference in the usage of red was first pointed out by Sam G in 2016, and I included it in the video as well as an earlier blog post: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Note that this post was written before Cary and I found all the other differences between the herbal A and Herbal B drawings.

Around that time I also looked into other colors in the way you did, but I distinguished more shades by sampling color values in Photoshop. I vaguely remember writing about this somewhere but I'm not even sure about that. My conclusion was that only red shows remarkable differences. All the other colors (even special shades of green) don't discriminate between A and B. 

I'm not sure which conclusions to draw from this. Red points to something about the painting process being 'aware' of different groups of herbal images. But every other color points to a more uniform painting process...