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Clayton:
Thanks for your commennts on Sargent's approach to painting, which I have heard before. I was wondering, though, if you might be able to clear up something for me regarding his "painting from the middle out."
Since I have not seen more info than what you have written, I have always made the assumption that Sargent must have "lumped" the shadow side as one shape, a middle section as one shape, and lights as one shape -- BUT, always keeping these major masses "in the middle," so to speak.
In other words, in his shadows, he would leave room for a little lighter and a little darker valus so as to be able to model that major mass, and the same with the middles and lights. They, too, being painted in the middle values of middles and the middle vallues of the lights so that these, too, could modeled in both darker and lighter values.
Or, am I wrong . . . have I assumed myself into the wrong idea?
I would appreciate hearing what you know of this.
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