In Defence of "Granny Painting"

There is a term which describes the use of non waterproof pen lines with brush and water to create immediate effect.
Immediate excitement as it were.
Good to create fairies and mystical feel.
And , if that inspires one to be creative - well, why not?
I could be good for fourteen year olds in a school situation.
It is also very easy, physically.
In that you could near enough do it on your knees- you only need somewhere to stash your water.
But,
I don’t think it is something to actually brag about, unless it is taken further.

The Royal Wedding

I use it in three ways:
1 Primarily to get an idea down - there is access to tonal qualities very quickly.

2 Also, there is a certain amount of not knowing what exactly is about to happen. It can inform the initial statement - suggest other alternatives in quite a painterly way.
It is in fact edging onto a kind of surreal form of development - coaxing out partially submerged ideas and forms. Also helping to solidify composition - tying bits of drawing up as a whole.
3 It can also be used as a working base. It lends itself quite comfortably to the inclusion of water colour based washes, and then can be corrected with more opaque layers, it can cry out to be finished off and tidied up.

It can of course also be worked on with water proof pen either to produce more linear work or used in a kind of hatching process.
It can in fact leave itself open to quite a considerable amount of further work, to the point where that part of the process is not identifiable anymore