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Mike,
I've got my second sauce drawing in progress; it's going to have lots of very dark darks in it. After that, I'll maybe try out the soft pastel and/or charcoal. You pose an interesting question, which I'll be able to answer when I give the pastel a try. I'm also considering the idea of using a sauce drawing as an underpainting for a pastel, as one of Peggy Baumgaertner's posts mentioned.
I've been primarily painting in oil, and drawing in graphite, and recently in colored pencil. I'm having a go at the sauce, pastels, charcoals for the first time either in a long while, or ever. I'm on a try-out-various-ways-of-making-works-on-paper-binge.
As for the black tights. Those are opaque panty hose. That's what Peggy Baumgaertner said to use. Black tights are made of a blend of cotton and spandex. Anyway, I snipped off a lower part of the leg and put the ground sauce in it. Much of it made it into the sock; the rest, well, I found out what Peggy meant when it's a mess to clean up.
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