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See my Instagram pictures showcasing my own original art work and inspiration for art and art therapy. Please note due to Hippa regulations I don’t post any work done in session other than my own. All images are property of Raina Cowan art therapist and counselor. No art experience is required to participate in art therapy.

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Finally hung my sun prints etc up at the office! #

Finally hung my sun prints etc up at the office! #cyanotype #sun prints #nature art

Celebrating St. Patty’s with help from inspirati

Celebrating St. Patty’s with help from inspirational local maker moms @amandajanebakes and @pixieandtheboy #shoplocal#supportmakermoms

Please note the opinions expressed are mine and mi

Please note the opinions expressed are mine and mine alone, except where noted. https://www.rainacowanarttherapist.com/pandemic-1-year-looking-back-looking-forward/

Showing some love for The Legendary Billie Holiday

Showing some love for The Legendary Billie Holiday. Watch #theunitedstatesvsbillieholiday if you haven’t already. Black History is not just one month. Learning is ongoing. Remember so we don’t forget #blackhistory

Valentines Day Art. How’s your heart doing these

Valentines Day Art. How’s your heart doing these days?

Sankofa inspired scratch foam prints. Did you know

Sankofa inspired scratch foam prints. Did you know the heart symbols “Akoma” and “Sankofa”originated in Ghana, Africa? The bird represents learning from the past.
#antiracism #celebrateblackhistory #sankofa #scratchfoam

I’ve got my eyes on you...

I’ve got my eyes on you...

Instagram post 17914799506559059

Instagram post 17914799506559059

For MLK day 2021, our act of service was adding so

For MLK day 2021, our act of service was adding some food items to our local Love Fridge, Bidi Bidi Nom Nom. The kid took this photo.

I decided to make an origami crane for each day of

I decided to make an origami crane for each day of the pandemic, as a meditation (reminding myself to breathe with each or every other fold); a way to document time, and as a wish for health for myself, my family, the world. If you have origami paper, or any paper you can make in 3”, 4”, 5” or 6” squares, please join me in this endeavor. Hopefully the Pandemic won’t last 1000 days but if it does we will make a senbazuru, the Japanese tradition of making 1000 cranes for good fortune or good health, or by some accounts, to earn a wish. https://origami.me/crane/

In honor of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awa

In honor of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. All images property of rainacowanarttherapist.com. #artofinfertility#nationalpregnancyandinfantlossawarenessmonth

Final version: Skeleton Keys Solarfast cyanotype w

Final version: Skeleton Keys Solarfast cyanotype with silver and copper embroidery

More late summer toned cyanotype experiments #cyan

More late summer toned cyanotype experiments
#cyanotype #embroidery

In between back to school prep and paperwork, and

In between back to school prep and paperwork, and housework, trying to capture the last of the summer’s midday sun. Experiments with toning the cyanotype.

Snakeskin Cyanotype on top of Solarfast sun print

Snakeskin Cyanotype on top of Solarfast sun print with metallic stitching. Shedding our skin, change, letting go of that which no longer serves us, what we’ve outgrown

More cyanotype, this one with some metallic paint

More cyanotype, this one with some metallic paint and metallic thread embroidery. Gears, mental processes, the brain, thoughts, cognition, cogs...

Solarfast sun print with skeleton keys, and added

Solarfast sun print with skeleton keys, and added textile paint using masking fluid pen. Skeleton keys, bare bones, keys open doors, entrance, accessibility, social justice, equity.

Lace coaster cyanotype sun print. Lace, my grandmo

Lace coaster cyanotype sun print. Lace, my grandmother’s, intricacy, the complexity of inter generational dynamics in therapy. Woven stories. Delicate strength.

Works in progress #cyanotype #solarfast

Works in progress #cyanotype #solarfast

More experiments with Cyanotype. Snakeskin, sheddi

More experiments with Cyanotype. Snakeskin, shedding, reinvention. Self portrait with snakeskin, not my first self portrait with snakeskin.

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