Sauce???

Nathan Cremer · 11-22-2002, 02:34 PM

I've just recently heard this term after visiting this forum. I've also seen a gallery of "charcoal & sauce" on Peggy Baumgaertner's website. I really enjoy the look of this. It does look alot like charcoal. So, I was wondering if someone could clarify, or better yet, show me a step by step of how they do a portrait with "sauce". Maybe even Peggy could explain. I'm very impressed with her work.

Nathan Cremer · 11-22-2002, 03:00 PM

Here is a piece I found on Peggy's website. I hope she doesn't mind me posting it, but I love the look of this.

Chris Saper · 11-22-2002, 03:11 PM

Dear Nathan,

If you will try the "search messages" function for "Sauce" you will have quite a bit of information pop up: http://forum.portraitartist.com/sear...der=descending

Peggy is working on an article as well as a sauce video that will no doubt be of great interest to you. Incidentally, I had the chance to watch snippets of a sauce portrait of Vincent Miller, which Peggy did from life at the Portrait Society of America last spring, and it was marvelous. Peggy is a painter who can really "walk the walk!"

Nathan Cremer · 11-22-2002, 04:56 PM

That pretty much answered my question. Now, to find some and figure out how to use it. Thanks again.

Peggy Baumgaertner · 11-23-2002, 10:35 AM

Nathan,

I wasn't aware that there was a sauce thread here! Thanks, Chris, for taking such good care of Nathan.

I recently "unveiled" a new sauce portrait at the Painting Portraits From Life section.
http://forum.portraitartist.com/show...?threadid=1761

You can purchase sauce through Dick Blick -- although they handle the assorted sauce, while I work exclusively in black sauce (there is a black sauce stick in the assorted box). You would also need a pestle and mortar (to crush the sauce stick into a powder), tortillion, kneaded eraser, bristle brush, watercolor brush and wash brush, ink eraser, and a stick of vine charcoal.

Jack Richesen and Co. is the distributor of sauce. You can contact them about where to purchase it at http://www.richesonart.com/bio.htm

The April/May 2002 issue of International Artists Magazine has my sauce article. It contains a step by step (the sauce drawing you posted, my son Paul, was the step by step in the article), history of sauce, and 19th century Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi.

If you have any additional questions, I would be happy to answer them.

I just think sauce is an incredible medium.

Peggy

(By the way, I have a sauce video I am in final edit on. It will be 120 minutes long, and sell for $59. Denise, posted in the From Life section, is the demo model. I also teach a 5 day charcoal/sauce workshop in La Crosse, WI during the summer. The dates this year are June 2-6, and the cost is $400)