Fade away

I was angry at first, but my rage faded away over time.

The stars shall fade away.

"I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"

The sun is fading away That's the end of the day

Phillips became known for the "fade away, in which the main figures' clothing is the same color as the background, allowing the elements to partially blend.

Hirschfeld captured many scenes in line and employed Coles Phillips's "fade away" technique in his painting on the left.

In Phillip's "Fade Away" style, he is literally editing out elements (by making them the same flat color as the background), but those elements are still there.