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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mt. Rainier sunrise gouache painting from Gouache Landscapes at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Attempting to be on social media again. Wish me luck

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I made a book of collage poems, Scraps, that came out from @pushpullseattle.bsky.social last Saturday. Each book has an original mini poem in the back. Books are numbered 1- 50. Here's the poem from #22. Conquered altruism predator construction ponder future hunters

An olive green square on a white page of a book. A poem is on the sqauare and reads "Conquered altruism / predator construction / ponder future hunters". The numbers "22/50" are below the poem and the signature MFG. A thumb is visible holding the book open.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Getting back into oil painting outside of teaching. Here's a cat in progress for ##CatsofBallard opening this June at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

Oil painting of a pale orange long haired cat laying on a blue floor with a purple background

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

All my fountain pens need to be cleaned 😆 so instead of cleaning them, I filled some Karappo pens. Current favorite work/note writing inks by @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

A doodle of a storm cloud with "Stormy Blue" written below. Underneath reads "Faraday" with a lightning bolt to the right.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Tulip field demo painting from class yesterday at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social I was really nervous about this and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Oil painting on canvas of a field of pink tulips with a lightly cloudy sky and trees very far in the distance.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My two favorite drawings from Botanical Sketching at the Locks today. Sign up for next week at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

Pencil drawing of Chinese fringe flower (Loropetalum chinese)

Pencil drawing of a camellia flower and leaves (camellia japonica)

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Drawing from Ballard Sketch Team last night. Wildflowers of Scotland. What's super cool is that I also made the ink (Mauveberry available at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social ) and the sketchbook.

Pink-purple ink drawing featuring flowers that are native to Scotland - poppies, snow drop, violets, thistle, forget-me-nots, and clovers.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New class this weekend at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Maxximalist charm necklace. Come get silly with me

Charm necklace with the letters m a x x in the middle. Full of silly charms such as gummy bears, cats, keys and tiny people in a pill capsule

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Made some tiny breakfast ornaments for @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Be Merry ornament show opening this Saturday 6-9 Come get tiny art

Tiny plastic frying pan with two eggs and sausage patties

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Working on Gemini for @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Zodiac calendar coming in January

Digital artwork of two woman sitting next to each other with long flowing hair

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I learned a new thing. Wood burned mushroom ornaments for Be Merry at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social opening in 2 weeks

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Yesterday was Tuesday! And here was the Tuesday newsletter! If you'd like to get these in your inbox, you can sign up here!

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Portrait demo from yesterday's Intro to Alcohol Marker class at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Stay tuned to see what else I drew (gotta drag out this social media content)

Colorful portrait of a femme person done with alcohol markers.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I've been feeling crappy about having frizzy hair but I realized yesterday that in the last year I've had nearly 40 electrodes glued to my hair and ripped off. So now I feel less bad but I'm also embracing the need for a haircut.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Coupla NEW upcoming classes to ring in the spooky season... 💀🎭🧸 Mark your calendars for: Draw Skulls! with @carapacestudios.bsky.social ! Collage Masquerade with @maxxfg.bsky.social ! And Make Your Own (Cursed) Lafufu with @hollyconrad.bsky.social !!

Promo image for Draw Skulls, featuring an ink drawing of a human skull floating against an exaggerated full moon photo background. Pencil sketches of a weasel and bird float in the foreground. "Draw something spooky -- with eerie accuracy! Join RJ to draw from real skulls and bones." Friday, October 3rd, 5:30-8:30.

Promo graphic for Collage Masquerade featuring a photo of a masquerade mask decorated with collage elements, including a printed speech bubble that reads "I will destroy you!". Various clip art of masks and scissors also decorate the graphic. "Celebrate the Halloween season with Maxx and create your own very unique mask using collage techniques!"

Promo graphic for Make Your Own "Lafufu" with Holly, featuring two modified teddy bears with their faces replaced with various horrors, and an in progress photo of a replacement face. "Want to participate in the whimsy of having a little guy on your person, but don't like to contribute to the crushing despair that is capitalism? This class is for you! Create a one-of-a-kind Cursed "Lafufu" using second-hand stuffed animals and polymer clay. At the end of the class, you'll have your own friend you can clip onto your backpack or use as a warning to your enemies."

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Just wrapped up my second sleep test, this time it was overnight plus all morning and most of the afternoon. I got 100% on my nap test, which is a bad thing but I have to wait for an official review before I know why I'm such a sleepyhead. #brokenbrainclub

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Art I made today. My alcohol marker class is coming up at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social and I think I did ok with this one so maybe come learn from me. Also gouache Kingfisher which is the bird with the best colors.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The page from Pockets Full of Leaves that inspired the title of the book. All about my adventures with plants. Coming this fall, of course.

Four panel comic of a brown haired woman. In the first three panels you see her picking colorful fall leaves. In the last panel you see her jacket pockets full of leaves and it says in cursive script “pockets full of leaves”

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Our annual Book Club show opens this Saturday, featuring various works inspired by The Winged Histories by Sofia Samata. If you've read the book, come marvel at the cool art and connect pieces to the narrative! If you haven't, perhaps you'll be inspired to! RSVP so you remember to come!

Promo poster for The Winged Histories, art inspired by Sofia Samatar's poignant saga. Opening: August 9, 6-9 pm reception. Features black and white art of two women standing facing away from each other. A large castle is in the background. A crow flies over the woman on the left, a bat, over the woman on the right.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New gouache and colored pencil piece that will soon be available at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

Painting of a woman in a pink skirt suit with a very unbothered expression as the bowl of alphabet soup she's holding spills down the front of her. The letters in the soup spell out "FUCK THE SYSTEM"

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Kids AND adults can come Draw Bugs! together! Join your local little guy enthusiast @carapacestudios.bsky.social THIS WEDNESDAY (tomorrow!) to conquer your fears or celebrate creepy crawlies by learning more about bugs and how they work! 🐛🪲🐞🦗🪰

2 photo composite showing a child and their parent, each holding a page of bug drawings and notes.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Tasked with making a cute print for a 2 year old, I was inspired by every toddler's favorite word. From screen printing class at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

Magenta print on sage green fabric of a cute little bird with a speech bubble that reads 'No'

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I made a postcard for @pushpullseattle.bsky.social inspired by what I wake up to on my pillow every morning.

Risograph print of a pink and green tabby cat hissing because I won't get out of bed or maybe I used too much of the pillow or maybe the most awful sin of trying to cuddle.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I painted this pigeon months ago but it literally melted everything when I tried a new varnish. I listened to Seth today and stayed home to paint and here's where the second version is now.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I put rotting potatoes in the ground and I got edible potatoes in 2 months. Magic is real.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I am too exhausted for social media or news or *gestures at everything* but I painted this beach yesterday at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social for the Acrylic Landscape Class so that's a thing. 🤷‍♀️🏖

Acrylic painting of a beach with large rocks and a bright yellow sun

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Bernie says it's time for a general strike so we can get back to worrying about important things, like if he's getting enough cuddles

Photo of a mixed color tabby cat with a white neck and belly being a very good boy and giving lovey eyes at Maxx (human in denim overalls) while laying on top of her.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Things are ROUGH. Here's some irises you can see and draw with me at Botanical Sketching with @pushpullseattle.bsky.social on Friday because it's the best way I know to escape the mess.

Photo of irises in a garden. They have white and purple petals.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Is it the mental illness or is it the medication you just upped for it? Yay! Please allow me to just cry on the couch all night while I figure it out. Bi Polar #1 means it's the best one... right... right?

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Been vacationing for a week and now celebrating birthday with friends and family. Made myself this edible bouquet from the garden.

Bouquet of chrysanthemum, dahlia, snapdragon, dianthus, violets and lavender on a gray table.

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Gravesco | Rebecca Graves Prowse she/her @gravesco.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Tax the rich. gravescopottery.com/products/liq...

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Been away on a roadtrip with @therealqueenk8.bsky.social (the human that birthed me) and getting inspiration for new paint/ink palettes. Here's the Painted Hills in OR which will surely be a set of paints

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Low tides reveal this new mini screen printed card by @maxxfg.bsky.social ! 🦀🦀🦀 Be crab. Hide in the sand. 🏖 Yes, we are here for your weird card needs. <3

Yellow design printed on a red card featuring a crab and the words "no human, be crab", photographed with a white envelop against a pale blue background.

Crab cards on display on a spinrack labeled "cards".

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

To the forgotten: Your name is something that won't roll off my tongue It gets stuck in my brain A memory That won't recollect Barriers put up Neurons refusing to connect Your name is a thing I could only forget Repeat as needed about whoever doesn't deserve your memory

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I grew my dinner! Everything but the garlic sauce and balsamic in the dressings. Yes, I ate flowers. I added smoked salmon after I took this photo because I remembered about protein.

Gray bowl with a salad of greens, violets on top and alpine berries with balsamic drizzle on the side. Alpine berries are a white strawberry.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Pigeon and Pomegranates on wood panel. Mixed media but mostly fountain pen ink I made. Available tomorrow at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Three standard colors can go a long way! This is @maxxfg.bsky.social 's FAVOURITE MIX!! 📼 Cobalt Teal! Process Yellow! Quinacridone Magenta! Powerful variations on primaries! What will you paint with this limited palette? Show us!

Metal tin with three standard watercolor half-pans, a mixed swatch with all of the colors blended together, and a label featuring a cassette tape.

3-color mixed swatch labels wrapped around mini tins with mixtape label on reverse side, on display.

Hand holding a mini-tin wrapped in the multi-color swatch.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Collage that I made at Slip Gallery yesterday. Thank you so much for the invitation to hang out @stitchpixie.bsky.social I'll be adding this to my 'future book poems' that will be published whenever I have more like 4 🤣

Collage with poem. Collage is a photo of underwater rocks and vegetation with large black and white hand holding a tiny black and white girl.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Arts I made today as demo pieces for classes at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social Now I will crash and imagine I am in the magical forest I painted

Ink drawing of mushrooms on a rotten stump

Gouache painting of light coming through the trees in a dense foresr.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In case you were like, yay the tarriffs are down so everything is ok now! Not so fast. Just got notice from a supplier today that imports product from EU that because the dollar to Euro exchange has gone down, they will need to raise prices.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Today's work at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social was teaching acrylic cat painting. I painted Bat, a black cat.

Acrylic painting of a black cat with a torn up banana toy spilling catnip.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is not good for indie art supply stores. Or even medium sized ones. MacPherson was the largest distributor/supplier we had. They had a dozen+ exclusive brands that haven't figured out how to get their products into the US, mostly from Europe. Be nice to small businesses, we're doing our best.

Email from MacPherson's that reads:
As a valued customer, we do our best to keep you informed of material developments regarding MacPherson's and it's business. To that end, as of May 123, 2025, Blick Art Materials has agreed to purchase all of MacPherson's inventory and certain intellectual property.

Effective immediately, all outstanding orders with MacPherson's will be cancelled, and no further orders will be accepted.

This decision was not made lightly, and we want to express our sincere appreciation for your support and partnership over the years. It has been our privilege to serve you, and we are truly grateful for the trust you've placed in us.

Sincerely,

The MacPherson's Team

(Note, this comes after they failed to show up for the annual trade show a month ago, abandoning sales staff that had traveled from Europe and now had no idea how their products would be distributed in the US. There has been NO WORD from MacPherson's since a February update about a management change. Nothing regarding not being at the trade show. Nothing about the brands they represent. Nothing. Just this. )

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Social media is hard when the world is ... well, you know. I'll try harder? Maybe? Also, it is 90s Shoegaze Monday at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social if you want to hang out with me and reminisce about the days of Flash and AIM.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Are your art supplies queeraf because if not, I can fix that. My Gay Agenda sketchbooks hit shelves soon at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social (many different pride flag options including gender queer, transgender and more)

Cover of sketchbook that had a block printed heart in the corner that says "My Gay Agenda" on the inside.

The inside pages of My Gay Agenda sketchbook, showing rainbow pages in the colors of a Gay Pride Flag.

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Maxx Follis-Goodkind @maxxfg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Well I didn't get any suggestions here but I did from a co-worker so here ya go. Available tomorrow at Punk Rock Flea Market as patches or cards at @pushpullseattle.bsky.social (and patches later)

Screen printed design of transgender symbol- combination of male and female symbols- with a fist in the center symbolizing power and protest for the rights of gender non-conforming people.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

At Punk Rock Flea Market! 🤘 Today till 8pm! Saturday noon to 8pm! Sunday noon to 6pm!

Tables at Seattle's Punk Rock Flea Market with screenprinted solid color and ice-dyed shirts. Risograph prints, handmade inks and paints, and other art can also be seen.

Shot of print rack with various prints, as well as totes and apparel hanging off of it.

Shot of zines, stickers, books, handmade fountain pen inks, paints, buttons, and other goods at Push/Pull's table at Seattle's Punk Rock Flea Market on Capitol Hill.

Shot of Push/Pull's table at PRFM with prints and zines. A banner reading "Push Pull Press" is draped on one side of the table.

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