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Originally Posted by Tony Pro
To get the soft edges in clothing or any soft transition, I follow what sagent did, which was use a few transitional strokes of a middle value between your foreground element and your background, usually by bristle filbert, than move to a mongoose hair brush and soften some of the passages to get a real lost edge.
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Hi Tony,
You are so nice and thoughtful!!
Thanks for the technical explanation. I'll post few Sargent' s paintings details and ask you some questions.
1)If Sargent didn't paint "alla prima" how did he make the hair's transparence you see on the right side of the picture?