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Well
I was just sent to this thread as I had started one that was very like this one. I got to say if we paint sight size like Sargent from 30' (making the match-or judging the work next to the subject) then we have to use both eyes. Here's the deal. You can't expect the people looking at your work to close one eye.
Your painting is attempting to match what's next to it, by doing so you create wonderful depth and light. At 30' or 40' you can see the big forms and the soft edges in the round-if you open both eyes. There really should be no agruement over this if one is devoted to sight-size working from life. By the way Sargent's sight wasn't great anfd he chose not to wear glasses for his 40/20 vision so as to keep the edges soft.
Gun sights are different because the depth of field is very "close" and involves focusung here (the sights) and there the target. Sorry for the rant, practice has taught me this to be so.
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