iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Your efforts are so so appreciated and worthwhile! Even though it’s hard to put the experience into words, and it absolutely doesn’t sound silly! Because it truly does set your brushes apart.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This makes so much sense to me because I was blown away by the feel of your oil brushes when I started using them! I had no idea how to explain it but it was so different to any other brushes I’d ever used.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ve been working on a little cartoon series on this exact topic. It turns out even with daily irrefutable evidence, we can still have mass & institutional denial of reality. And oppression of truth. From our most trusted sources. Thank you @davemilbo.bsky.social for this great article. 🧵1/4

Two panel cartoon. The first has a sad person holding a sign saying genocide is bad.

The second panel has two angry people with media written on their clothing, holding signs. The first says: anti-genocide?! Equal sign. you’re fired!
The Second says: the G word is banned. It doesn’t vibe with our narrative.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Do you mind if I use these photos for artwork inspiration? Such beautiful arrangements

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ooo enjoy! Here’s my latest using Lisa Glanz’ gouache brushes with extra colour jitter. Oh and Lisa includes great canvases with her brushes.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Timelapse video description: vibrant coloured digital gouache artwork of a row of 3 old style single story houses, each with an awning. The whole scene neon colours, with the three houses bright pink, two shades of green, and red and orange. The sky is bright blue and purple.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Anyone else stop at Gundagai on the drive between Sydney/Melbourne? 🙋🏻‍♀️ A cute old town with architecture that’s fun to capture! #Gundagai #Procreate #ArchitectureArt #Uplift

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Here's a little Kookaburra I was commissioned to draw, never get tired of them! #drawing #bird #birdart #wildlife #pencilart

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(Not that it’s acceptable for the Gov to just completely ignore reality.) But it doesn’t explain why the media have gone awol. So I’d like to do what I can to visually bring this issue to the fore, and in turn help pressure both the government & media to pay attention & do something

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s honestly shocking how little coverage this drought is getting. Even though it’s obvious even in Melbourne how little rain we’ve had all summer! I heard someone say the government isn’t wanting to acknowledge there’s a drought because then they’d have to provide assistance. Sadly makes sense

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’m an artist wanting to raise awareness of the current drought in Vic & SA. I have 2 qns: 1. Are there any charities supporting these farms/communities I can direct people to? 2. Are any farmers willing to send me some photos I can use as references for my artwork? I’d love to show real places

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Like a pig in mud or a dog with bubbles to catch.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today is #MEAwarenessDay. Here’s a tiny glimpse into life with this debilitating disease. #MECFS #MissingMillions #MECFSis #MEAwarenessMonth

Photo in black & white of a woman sitting in bed with doona over her bent knees. She has long hair, and is looking at the camera with a serious expression on her face. Most of the room is dark, with her face & part of the wall to her left lit up by leaf speckled light filtering into her room through the window behind the camera. Beside the bed is a shadowed bedside table with lamp and drink bottle on top. A door is partially visible.
Caption: M.E. is being bedbound or housebound for the 25%.
Some have not seen the sun in decades.

Blurred double vision image of woman standing in front of a large gum tree. The angle is looking slightly upward with just the shoulders and head visible as well as the top of the tree behind the sky is blue and cloudy.
Caption: M.E. is underfunded. Under researched.
Under diagnosed. Under treated.
Under supported. Misunderstood.
Neglected. Dismissed. Harmed.

Digital drawing of a hand holding a phone, with a simple drawing of the earth on the screen. The background is black.
Caption: M.E. is experiencing the world through a screen.
For many, their only portal to community, connection, knowledge & advocacy.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Me: has a strong desire to embroider cool designs on some of my clothing. Also me: has finger pain that makes needlework a terrible idea. 🫠 #pwME #ChronicIllness #Embroidery #Disability

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

When you’re clearly longing for spring, even though it’s still autumn 😅 #BloomScrolling #Illustration #Art #Procreate #OnlyBeautifulThings #pwME

ID: digital artwork of pink flowers and green leaves on a navy background with lighter green stripes. The shapes are simple, with speckled texture over the work.

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Ooooo this is so cool!! And giving me ideas for other sport patterns…

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We need your help to make it a success! We invite all people with ME, Long COVID, and other disabilities to join us! We are sending an SOS to -Save our support systems. Save our science. Save our society. A huge thank you to Jess of @hospmom.bsky.social for this amazing artwork! #Disability

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

And I would be grateful if you can share this thread so I get more thoughts. I’m also hoping to turn the polls into a post about making social media posts accessible for energy limiting disabilities/chronic illnesses like ME. While knowing sometimes accessibility needs conflict with each other!

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m also asking if people prefer reels or images. All my posts already have alt text, image descriptions including text, and transcripts of audio. Are there any other preferences you think I should add/ask? #Accessibility #Disability #pwME

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Accessible social media content for #pwME, #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #disability I’m putting together some polls for my Insta stories asking about accessibility needs for those who have them. Eg. prefer voiceover or written caption; music with lyrics, without lyrics or silence?

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Meet Bertie. The Aussie Blue-Banded Bee. (And no doubt, the most technical bee drawing you’ll see all day) #InverteFest #Bee #Illustration #WildlifeOz

digital drawing in a simple pastel style. In the centre is a yellow, pale blue and black bee wearing a green hat and orange apron. It's holding and smelling a bunch of tulips which are orange, yellow and pale pink. While standing in a long grassy field of tulips with blue sky behind. There's a wonky white border around the drawing.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy birthday to Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs” fossil

My linocut portrait of Zofia Keilan-Jaworowska shows her as in slacks and sleeveless button down with collar turned in a 3/4 view with her right arm extended and left arm bent and resting on the small of her back. She has short hair and appears brightly lit from the left side. In front of her are the Fighting Dinosaurs fossils: a protoceratops and velociraptor entwined. Above her hand is a Cretaceous rodent Catopsbaatar and behind her is a Deinocheirus dinosaur. She is in the field in Mongolia with mountains in the distance. The print is made in a gradient of sandy golden green through dark green-brown through a dark rust from the bottom to the top.

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Pillow Writers @pillowwriters.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sunday 27th April Pillow Scripters for play writers and players. Monday 28th April The Annex for long form writers. Tuesday 29th April Pillow Writers En Español. Los encuentros son completamente en Español. All 11:00 am PST via Zoom. More info and Zoom link here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

pillowwriters.wordpress.com

Pillow Writers

An ME/CFS writing group

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Storytelling training for #MIllionsMissing! Expert storyteller, Kirsten Ferrell, will lead our community in a storytelling training that will enable us to share our stories in a way that leads to change on April 27th at 12pm PT/3pm ET. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/millionsmi... #pwME

Kirsten Ferrell (white woman with long straight hair) lightly smiling at the camera. Text overlaid on photo: "SOS storytelling to motivate action"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/04/2025

When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ah cool yeah definitely look up rule of thirds, as that might help figure out placement. Or at least give you a starting framework

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’ll need to go look at his work to see if typical rules like thirds, avoiding the centre line etc still apply to a round canvas. Of course knowing breaking the ‘rules’ can also really work haha

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’ll have to check out his works. I imagine you get a good eye for round placement eventually, but yeah super tricky when you’re new!

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ooo round would be a different challenge! Loving the owl 😍

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

And when I get the miniatures, I’m going to have to be so strict with following a timer for how long I photograph things for. Need to not overdo it in my excitement 🙃 #pwME #MECFS

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It’s the perfect avenue to use my photography skills, but tell a story from my backyard. I’m mostly housebound with #ME myself, so miss photographing the world outside. I’m working on how I’ll make this with my own ‘voice’. I’ve ordered some miniature Aussie birds I’ll try. And see what develops

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Maddy Ob Art @maddyobart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Yesterday I saw an artist who uses teeny miniature figurines & photographs them in/on vegetables etc. And at that scale the ‘landscape’ looks huge. This provoked a heap of ideas of how I could use this concept to both depict #pwME, and be a visual escape especially for bed and house bound people.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live. I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together 24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards Open to anyone,anywhere workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Collection of spring nature finds in antique typesetter's tray

Collection of finds from Old Hunstanton beach made in 2019

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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