Illustrated Life

Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, and making art in the margins. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal to document YOUR life. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐ŸŽจ

By Amy Cowen
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โ€œAmy is a gifted illustrator, her pages overflowing with colors, shapes, lines, words. But the expansive and honest way she puts words to her days invites reflection without the burden of too much opinion. Amy explores beyond destinations, questions without expectations, and invites curiosity along the way. โ€...โ€
Elizabeth Beggins, Chicken Scratch by Elizabeth Beggins
โ€œAmy 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.โ€...โ€
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a drop