Wowie!
 

You do impressive work anyway and this one's awesome. That one resounding highlight on the nose works very well. I appreciate your reserve.

Catherine,

Wonderful work! In this lovely drawing, you've shown what I think is the greatest benefit to using sauce as opposed to another medium. It truly is unlike any other media in it subtlety, finesse, and powerful darks and lights. I guess that is what I love best about it. I've always been a sucker for extremes, the dance between detail and painterliness, real and imagined, color and tone. Walking the razor's edge.

When using sauce, you are walking the edge between huge/massive/stark value jumps, while at the same time creating exquisitely minute value shifts within the value masses. It is the best way I have found to really understand and study subtle value. The fact that Ivan Kramskoy worked a lot in sauce over a period of 10-15 years is the reason he is (to my mind) the greatest master of values I have ever seen.