haleyvan

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Acrylic on canvas 18”x24.

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Practice sketches from the last two days - finally was able to register for my first year classes for my B.F.A. Mentally and physically preparing myself for 3 hour studio times.

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Water colour and ink.

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Watercolour and ink on watercolour paper. 11’x15’ - saw a picture of an arched tree over the water. Have been trying to figure out how to make a circular tree look somewhat natural.

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Watercolour and ink on watercolour paper.

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Daily practice drawings from the last week.

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3/3 watercolour, ink and gold leaf on 18”x24” watercolour paper.

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2/3 - watercolour, ink and gold leaf on 18”x24” watercolour paper.

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Finished today- 1/3 watercolour octopi, with ink and gold leaf, on 18”x24” watercolour paper.

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I carry with me

the night sky-

not an inky black

or an absence of colour,

but the deep blues

moving together

as they always have

since the beginning of time

how the moon

shows growth in

her waxing and waning,

that death is inevitable -

you can let go

and return

for even when you are not visible,

you are always present.

-h. vandenberghe

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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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I am at the mercy

of your tides.

-haley vandenberghe

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they say anger

is a mans trait

but what is more

feminine than rage?

it hides behind

a polite smile,

a clenched jaw,

blood stained teeth

cut by the unsaid

words.

you turned war machines,

into goddesses of love and fertility

you took our history

and have rewritten it

as your own

while our grandmothers

carried revolutions on their backs

a slow,

steady

burning fire,

the same flame you

burned the innocent alive

you have taken our rage

and labeled us

emotional

blaming the blood

between our thighs.

so I ask again -

what is more femenine

than rage?

-Haley Vandenberghe

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Some people

will always

be out of reach

from one another -

Only meant to love

at an arm’s length

never outstretched

at the same time.

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Forest queen and fireflies.

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Open & all seeing.

Repurposed an older canvas I didn't like how it turned out. Happier with it this way.

Acrylic, watercolor, and gold leaf on 12x12 canvas

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Minds eye.

Watercolor, ink, and gold leaf on watercolor paper.

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I have been making a buttload of these lately. Feels great to be drawing, painting, as well as creating something new. See more on my art IG @haleyveee.art