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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
Allan,
In another book on Sargent, he used thickly painted darks.
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Sharon,
In the notes on Sargent's technique, a student of him, Miss. Heyneman, tells that he would brush in the general tone with paint diluted in turps. After then he used the paint mostly undiluted.
You are right that he painted all effects with opaque paint. He said that if we would paint something transparent, it should not be done with transparent paint, but in the right mixture of color, in opaque paint.
He also would wipe out a face or hand and start over at the next sitting if he was not satisfied with the result. That would leave several layers of skin color I guess.
Allan