Thanks for the reply Catherine, if you could humor me for a couple more questions.
I much prefer using soft black pastel chalk to charcoal because I can get much darker values with the pastel. It appears to me that the end product pastel drawing would look very similar to that of the sauce drawing, although I've only seen the sauce on the computer. But from everything I've read about sauce, it appears to be very difficult in the "process" stage.
If you did not use any water, applied the pastel chalk directly to the paper. Then using fingers, brushes, tortillons, and "fixing" the chalk when necessary, do you think the end product would be appreciably different than that of a sauce drawing? Such that it would warrant the additional headaches that I perceive are inherent in the sauce process.
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She ground up the sauce with a mortar and pestle and poured the powder into a black tight, itself a messy undertaking. Then she covered the surface of the paper with a light coating of the sauce-in-the-tight, and then proceeded with drawing, with a kneaded eraser for lighter areas, and with a tortillon or brush, for darks.
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Would you explain what a "black tight" is, also the term "sauce-in-the-tight?"