The soft edge-making technique I use is something I learned from Bill Whitaker. I have a drawer full of dead, fuzzy sable and synthetic brushes that I use as blending brushes, in all different sizes.
I blend one color into another and then grab another clean, dry blender brush for the next color areas. As Bill said, you need a lot of clean blenders each day, doing this (or you can clean them with fast drying acetone for the next colors you want to blend, but I don't use that). My good brushes get fuzzy so fast that the "blender" drawer fills up fast and I probably have fifty of them. This technique works especially well if you have to blend a wet area into a dry area. Then I go over everything I paint with a small fan brush and smooth things out even more.
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