Sketchbook as Playground with Amarilys Henderson

Amarilys, can you give everybody a little background about your design/illustration career and teaching business?

How often do you use your sketchbook? In what ways do you use your sketchbook?

Do you have a different sketchbook you use for your devotional time?

Do you ever use your sketchbook to experiment with a new style or try something new? What are you experiementing with in your sketchbooks? What are you practicing?

How many items in one sketchbook end up on a product? Are some sketchbooks more prolific?

When do you take a piece out of the sketchbook? Do you work on it more, recreating the painting again on a sheet of paper or working larger? What does your process of creating a final piece look like or is the final straight from the sketchbook?

How many scenes or patterns or compositions go directly to digital to adjust? How do you decide what gets made into prints, stickers, or other products?

You create challenges for your Watercolor Bold Community. Why does creating prompts and challenges help you in your creation of work process? Do you ever participate in other art challenges or anything like that?

Do you have different sketchbooks at one time? How do you use the different ones and why have multiple?

If you were going to a meeting or doctor’s appointment would you carry your sketchbook? How would you use it in those situations? (Do you carry multiple with you at one time?)

How often do you return to your old sketchbooks for inspiration or ideas?

How do you deal with making bad art? Is your internal voice nice or mean? This is one of the things I love most about the live painting sessions with you. I am always seeing where I would have given up and you just keep working and seeing how a piece is just in the messy middle. I love that about you!!! And I love that you are teaching me that!

What has been the biggest epiphany that came as a result of having a regular sketchbook practice?

What is next?