Nensi
@nancypolo.bsky.social
Artist, painter, collaborator, writer.
1 mural down, and 1 more to go before June 24th...
I've designed a few logos in my career. None of them as fun as Clarke, Boyce Elementary's Cardinal. This year I'm leaving teaching to paint full time, but I'm sure my former students will provide me with vital feedback as VIP clients 😎
I've designed a few logos in my career. None of them as fun as Clarke, Boyce Elementary's Cardinal. This year I'm leaving teaching to paint full time, but I'm sure my former students will provide me with vital feedback as VIP clients 😎
June 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
1 mural down, and 1 more to go before June 24th...
I've designed a few logos in my career. None of them as fun as Clarke, Boyce Elementary's Cardinal. This year I'm leaving teaching to paint full time, but I'm sure my former students will provide me with vital feedback as VIP clients 😎
I've designed a few logos in my career. None of them as fun as Clarke, Boyce Elementary's Cardinal. This year I'm leaving teaching to paint full time, but I'm sure my former students will provide me with vital feedback as VIP clients 😎
Dear Glo, it did not work. I still feel neglected and my issue is not resolved.
#customerservice #yogaglo
#customerservice #yogaglo
June 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Dear Glo, it did not work. I still feel neglected and my issue is not resolved.
#customerservice #yogaglo
#customerservice #yogaglo
New Addiction: painting the same scene over and over. A friend recently put the number 10,000 hours in my head. Obsessive? Compulsive? So were/are a bunch of other artists.
The first pass on the sky in #openacrylics needs time to dry.
The first pass on the sky in #openacrylics needs time to dry.
April 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New Addiction: painting the same scene over and over. A friend recently put the number 10,000 hours in my head. Obsessive? Compulsive? So were/are a bunch of other artists.
The first pass on the sky in #openacrylics needs time to dry.
The first pass on the sky in #openacrylics needs time to dry.
Looking at old work while painting is a conversation. Is there a complete expression, with consistent visual vocabulary, grammar and syntax? It's tempting to repaint old work, but they are framed by the past and should stay that way.
The sky is next.
#artstudio #progress #seascape #antrimcoast
The sky is next.
#artstudio #progress #seascape #antrimcoast
April 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Looking at old work while painting is a conversation. Is there a complete expression, with consistent visual vocabulary, grammar and syntax? It's tempting to repaint old work, but they are framed by the past and should stay that way.
The sky is next.
#artstudio #progress #seascape #antrimcoast
The sky is next.
#artstudio #progress #seascape #antrimcoast
Re-developing stamina to stand at the wall to paint is not in the How To Books. Being gentle with myself as I etch new routines into my muscle memory is not easy. I must have painted that 40' x 14' mural in a haze of adrenaline.
#paintinglife #artistlife #seascape #antrimcoast
#paintinglife #artistlife #seascape #antrimcoast
April 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Re-developing stamina to stand at the wall to paint is not in the How To Books. Being gentle with myself as I etch new routines into my muscle memory is not easy. I must have painted that 40' x 14' mural in a haze of adrenaline.
#paintinglife #artistlife #seascape #antrimcoast
#paintinglife #artistlife #seascape #antrimcoast
The #antrimcoast murals begin. It's hard to photograph 5' x 3.5' and 3.5' x 3.5' walls, blank except for very fine pencil lines-- a bit like looking at seeds just planted in the ground🙂
The certain geometry of rocky coasts, buffeted over millennia feels like a refuge.
The certain geometry of rocky coasts, buffeted over millennia feels like a refuge.
March 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The #antrimcoast murals begin. It's hard to photograph 5' x 3.5' and 3.5' x 3.5' walls, blank except for very fine pencil lines-- a bit like looking at seeds just planted in the ground🙂
The certain geometry of rocky coasts, buffeted over millennia feels like a refuge.
The certain geometry of rocky coasts, buffeted over millennia feels like a refuge.
Only one month until the Spring Equinox’s Full Moon. Bunny is ready to leave behind the chaos for something positive, new and hopeful— a good kind of monarch!
#procreate #bunny #spring #chrysalis #monarch
#procreate #bunny #spring #chrysalis #monarch
March 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Only one month until the Spring Equinox’s Full Moon. Bunny is ready to leave behind the chaos for something positive, new and hopeful— a good kind of monarch!
#procreate #bunny #spring #chrysalis #monarch
#procreate #bunny #spring #chrysalis #monarch
Dunluce Castle
And if it is a despot you would dethrone,
see first that his throne erected within you is
destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and
the proud, but for a tyranny in their own
freedom and a shame in their own pride?
—On Freedom
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
#procreate #tyranny #castle
And if it is a despot you would dethrone,
see first that his throne erected within you is
destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and
the proud, but for a tyranny in their own
freedom and a shame in their own pride?
—On Freedom
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
#procreate #tyranny #castle
March 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Dunluce Castle
And if it is a despot you would dethrone,
see first that his throne erected within you is
destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and
the proud, but for a tyranny in their own
freedom and a shame in their own pride?
—On Freedom
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
#procreate #tyranny #castle
And if it is a despot you would dethrone,
see first that his throne erected within you is
destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and
the proud, but for a tyranny in their own
freedom and a shame in their own pride?
—On Freedom
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
#procreate #tyranny #castle
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents...
March 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents...
View from Dunluce Castle
A plan for the first of two murals that will be painted perpendicular to each other. Painting this landscape was a meticulous process— like constructing a gem from the inside out. It will evolve as it gets painted on a real wall.
#irishcoast #procreate #emeraldisle
A plan for the first of two murals that will be painted perpendicular to each other. Painting this landscape was a meticulous process— like constructing a gem from the inside out. It will evolve as it gets painted on a real wall.
#irishcoast #procreate #emeraldisle
February 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
View from Dunluce Castle
A plan for the first of two murals that will be painted perpendicular to each other. Painting this landscape was a meticulous process— like constructing a gem from the inside out. It will evolve as it gets painted on a real wall.
#irishcoast #procreate #emeraldisle
A plan for the first of two murals that will be painted perpendicular to each other. Painting this landscape was a meticulous process— like constructing a gem from the inside out. It will evolve as it gets painted on a real wall.
#irishcoast #procreate #emeraldisle
Bear's Den
A place marker, erased and recreated by years of living in its shadow. I’m a punctuater when it comes to painting. I feel the need for exclamation points, when simply laid sentences will do.
#clarkecountyva #procreate #shenandoahvalley
A place marker, erased and recreated by years of living in its shadow. I’m a punctuater when it comes to painting. I feel the need for exclamation points, when simply laid sentences will do.
#clarkecountyva #procreate #shenandoahvalley
February 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Bear's Den
A place marker, erased and recreated by years of living in its shadow. I’m a punctuater when it comes to painting. I feel the need for exclamation points, when simply laid sentences will do.
#clarkecountyva #procreate #shenandoahvalley
A place marker, erased and recreated by years of living in its shadow. I’m a punctuater when it comes to painting. I feel the need for exclamation points, when simply laid sentences will do.
#clarkecountyva #procreate #shenandoahvalley
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Pink Perfection on the Silk Road to Taishun, in the prefecture of Wenzhou, in the southern part of Zhejiang province, China. A digitalTrompe l’Oeil painting created on Procreate.
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January 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Pink Perfection on the Silk Road to Taishun, in the prefecture of Wenzhou, in the southern part of Zhejiang province, China. A digitalTrompe l’Oeil painting created on Procreate.
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Full Wolf Moon
#oilpastel #gouache on paper. Capturing the view on my way home. 2025's first full moon is the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA.
#dailypractice
#oilpastel #gouache on paper. Capturing the view on my way home. 2025's first full moon is the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA.
#dailypractice
January 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Full Wolf Moon
#oilpastel #gouache on paper. Capturing the view on my way home. 2025's first full moon is the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA.
#dailypractice
#oilpastel #gouache on paper. Capturing the view on my way home. 2025's first full moon is the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA.
#dailypractice
Saint Kitts Carnival- Take Two. The difference between creating with virtual stylus is control. Imagine having every paintbrush, medium and color at your fingertips on a palette that never gets messy. This is not a tactile way to create, but it is plastic and satisfying. #procreate #virtualoilpastel
January 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Saint Kitts Carnival- Take Two. The difference between creating with virtual stylus is control. Imagine having every paintbrush, medium and color at your fingertips on a palette that never gets messy. This is not a tactile way to create, but it is plastic and satisfying. #procreate #virtualoilpastel
Saint Kitts Carnival
Huge learning curve with oil pastels continues. The colors and this gentleman's smile are irresistible.
Choosing a challenge, not playing it safe... Even if I fail.
#oilpastel #figurestudy
Huge learning curve with oil pastels continues. The colors and this gentleman's smile are irresistible.
Choosing a challenge, not playing it safe... Even if I fail.
#oilpastel #figurestudy
January 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Saint Kitts Carnival
Huge learning curve with oil pastels continues. The colors and this gentleman's smile are irresistible.
Choosing a challenge, not playing it safe... Even if I fail.
#oilpastel #figurestudy
Huge learning curve with oil pastels continues. The colors and this gentleman's smile are irresistible.
Choosing a challenge, not playing it safe... Even if I fail.
#oilpastel #figurestudy
Cascata della Civetta, Provincia di Vicenza
Virtual oil pastel, #procreate
Learning a lot about oil pastels, value scale and color theory, even when working virtually. Saving my fingers for real pastels and paper. I’m on the hunt for black watercolor paper.
Virtual oil pastel, #procreate
Learning a lot about oil pastels, value scale and color theory, even when working virtually. Saving my fingers for real pastels and paper. I’m on the hunt for black watercolor paper.
January 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Cascata della Civetta, Provincia di Vicenza
Virtual oil pastel, #procreate
Learning a lot about oil pastels, value scale and color theory, even when working virtually. Saving my fingers for real pastels and paper. I’m on the hunt for black watercolor paper.
Virtual oil pastel, #procreate
Learning a lot about oil pastels, value scale and color theory, even when working virtually. Saving my fingers for real pastels and paper. I’m on the hunt for black watercolor paper.
Winter Fields in Oil Pastels, sketch.
Practice every day. There's a place for oil pastels, and it's not in my skies. The Blue Ridge is difficult like puff pastry. The careful lamination of micro layers drives me crazy.
Practice every day. There's a place for oil pastels, and it's not in my skies. The Blue Ridge is difficult like puff pastry. The careful lamination of micro layers drives me crazy.
January 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Winter Fields in Oil Pastels, sketch.
Practice every day. There's a place for oil pastels, and it's not in my skies. The Blue Ridge is difficult like puff pastry. The careful lamination of micro layers drives me crazy.
Practice every day. There's a place for oil pastels, and it's not in my skies. The Blue Ridge is difficult like puff pastry. The careful lamination of micro layers drives me crazy.
Imagination Machine
Tempera on paper. Designed after winning sketches from grades 1-5 at Boyce Elementary.
The most important question I ask in my classroom... "Where does your imagination live, and how does it work?"
Tempera on paper. Designed after winning sketches from grades 1-5 at Boyce Elementary.
The most important question I ask in my classroom... "Where does your imagination live, and how does it work?"
January 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Imagination Machine
Tempera on paper. Designed after winning sketches from grades 1-5 at Boyce Elementary.
The most important question I ask in my classroom... "Where does your imagination live, and how does it work?"
Tempera on paper. Designed after winning sketches from grades 1-5 at Boyce Elementary.
The most important question I ask in my classroom... "Where does your imagination live, and how does it work?"
Spotted Pardalotte, painted with virtual oil pastels after a photo by Marie Williams.
January 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Spotted Pardalotte, painted with virtual oil pastels after a photo by Marie Williams.
33 works in 2024. Yes, that includes 11 crocheted works (3 of which were not photographed).
January 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
33 works in 2024. Yes, that includes 11 crocheted works (3 of which were not photographed).
July Jewels
Working with a new set of virtual oil pastel brushes. Plan to try the same with actual oil pastels soon.
Working with a new set of virtual oil pastel brushes. Plan to try the same with actual oil pastels soon.
January 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
July Jewels
Working with a new set of virtual oil pastel brushes. Plan to try the same with actual oil pastels soon.
Working with a new set of virtual oil pastel brushes. Plan to try the same with actual oil pastels soon.
This morning I slept in until 6:49 am on the first day of Winter Break. I saw a dragon peeking out from the covers. It made me think of a student's reaction to the Mt. Crumpit mural I created for our school holiday celebration. He asked another teacher, "Which one would you be?"
December 21, 2024 at 12:32 PM
This morning I slept in until 6:49 am on the first day of Winter Break. I saw a dragon peeking out from the covers. It made me think of a student's reaction to the Mt. Crumpit mural I created for our school holiday celebration. He asked another teacher, "Which one would you be?"