Sauce is an artistic material for drawings. Gained fame and began to be widely used in the 18th - 19th centuries. The use of sauce opens up wide possibilities in the technique of tonal drawing.
Instructions
Step 1
The sauce is a compressed mixture of carbon black, kaolin, chalk and glue, sold as short sticks wrapped in foil. In its artistic qualities, it resembles a pastel, but is more saturated in tone. It has great expressive possibilities and is equally successfully used both in sketches and sketches and in large works. The sauce lies flat on the paper, can be applied with a stroke and shading, goes well with other materials, for example, charcoal or ink. It has 10 color shades: white (most suitable for drawings on tinted paper), brown, gray, khaki, black (gives very beautiful, deep, velvety shades from the darkest to the lightest) and some others. There are two ways to paint with sauce - dry and wet.
Step 2
Dry method. For drawing, you can take smooth paper, but more often textured paper is used. They work with dry sauce in much the same way as with charcoal. The transition from a dark tone to a lighter one is achieved using a stump - a pointed shelf tightly rolled from a paper strip cut out with a triangle. With dry sauce, the basic forms of the drawing are made, and the details are applied with an Italian pencil. Drawings made by a dry method are fixed with varnish, stored under glass or transferred with thin paper.
Step 3
Wet painting is easier. Use heavy, grainy paper. Break off a piece of sauce and place it in a container with a little water. The less water, the more saturated the color will be. The brushes are taken as for watercolors. Prepare another additional sheet on which you can test the saturation of the resulting paint on the brush. When dry, the sauce is fixed on the paper, but it is easily erased with an elastic band, shaded well, so the transitions from tone to tone are done dry. Subtle details are drawn with watercolor brushes, wide surfaces with bristle brushes. Drawings made with wet sauce do not need fixing.
Step 4
Often these two methods are combined in one drawing. To do this, first apply the tones with a wet sauce from light to dark. Small details are drawn in a dry way.
