Isn't his technique amazing?!The Fadeaway Girl was the particular hallmark of COLES PHILLIPS (1880-1927). Phillips pictured fashionable young women, using the device of tying the figure into the background by either color, value or pattern. This approach produced an intriguing poster-like effect of great simplicity, yet it was based on the most careful preliminary planning of shapes to carry out the illusion of the full figure." From www.illustration-house.com:"
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Love Coles Phillips too! I had a fadeaway pic of a girl with chickens for the header of my Shabby Chicken blog for a long while there. :D
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