Default Form Background Colour

Hello, I'm relatively new to coding and have stumbled across e.graphics. My question is, if i use e.graphics.clear, what is th default background colour for the form Will I have to make my own colour and if so, what are the argb values Is There an easier way

Visual Studio Express Editions43

Use either of these:
gr.Clear(Me.BackColor) '--- Preferred
gr.Clear(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Control))

Just to fill you in a bit more, i'm using e.graphics.drawstring(blah blah blah etc...) and animated it by changing the x and y locations. My code at the moment looks like this:

Public Class form1

Dim paints As System.Drawing.Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics

Dim afont As New System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12)

Dim arctic As String = "Arctic Games Programming"

Dim x As Integer = -180

Dim y As Integer = 10

Private Sub Timer1_Elapsed(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs) Handles Timer1.Elapsed

'Label1.Text = (arctic)

'Label1.Size = New Size(18, 10)

'Label1.Font = New Font("Arial", 10)

paints.DrawString(arctic, afont, Brushes.Black, (x + 5), y)

x = x + 1

paints.Clear(Me.BackColor)

'Label1.Location = New Point(x, y)

If x > 300 Then

x = -180

End If

End Sub

End Class

'But all the refresh things I've tried are really slow (I get it flashing for less than a second as it scrolls past)

Put the Clear() call before the DrawString() call and it will work a lot better. There is still a bit of flashing, it will take removing Clear() to solve that (hint: draw over the old text).