Illustrated Life
Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, aging, making art in the margins, & more. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal. 📓 🏳️🌈 🖋️
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“Amy's writing offers a pause ... Illustrated Life is a space to linger, reflect, and reconnect with your creative spirit. There’s a quiet wisdom in her words, like a lighthouse steady in the distance, illuminating the path for those of us who crave stillness and inspiration. If you appreciate slow, mindful creativity and the art of noticing, her words will meet you exactly where you are.
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“Amy Cowen's "Illustrated Life" is a gentle, honest narrative of her artistic practice: How it intertwines with her life; the tools and exercises that take her places. She is an artist of image, word, and process, and her posts take readers into the mix and ferment of those three things. It's beautiful.”
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a drop
“Amy's Illustrated Life Substack is the reason why I'm here on Substack. Her posts always make me think about the deeper meaning of life often through the simplest of subjects. I pulled of a months-long art journal process thanks to her. The community she has developed here on Substack is tight-knit and welcoming. Highly recommend!”
Emily Kaminsky, The Creative Convergence