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Maddy Ob Art
@maddyobart.bsky.social
210 followers 310 following 130 posts
Artist & Photographer.
You’ll find an eclectic mix of art including nature, cricket, netball, portraiture, chronic illness & disability.
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Two panel cartoon. The first has a sad person holding a sign saying genocide is bad. The second panel has two angry people holding signs. The first says: it’s not real if we say it’s not real. The Second says: how dare you say ‘genocide is bad’
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Two panel cartoon. The first has a sad person holding a sign saying genocide is bad. The second panel has two angry people holding signs. The first says what genocide? The Second says genocide is terrible. With an Asterix addition “except this one. We like this one.”
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Two panel cartoon. The first has a sad person holding a sign saying genocide is bad. The second panel has two angry people holding signs. The first says: saying ‘genocide is bad’ is bad. The Second says: saying ‘genocide is bad’ is the worst.
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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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.

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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.
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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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
June 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Today is #MEAwarenessDay.

Here’s a tiny glimpse into life with this debilitating disease.

#MECFS #MissingMillions #MECFSis #MEAwarenessMonth
Mixed media photograph and digital painting of headshot of women with long dark hair, eyes closed and strap top. There’s a green vine wrapped around her eyes and neck/hair. In the background is abstract dark green bush. Caption: M.E. is being trapped in your body. Everything you do can make you sicker. 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.
May 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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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.
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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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.
April 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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When you step into a time capsule in a little country town.

These little gems are in Gundagai.
A classic stop over town when driving between Melbourne & Sydney.

ID: Timelapse of digital ink & watercolour drawing of a row of 3 colourful old style single story houses, each with an awning.

#Art
April 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Anyone else use too many spoons collecting & photographing autumn leaves today? No? Just me?
Let me be a warning to you all 🥴

I'm hoping to incorporate these leaves into my digital artwork. So watch this space!

(The veining 😍)

#BotanicalArt #Autumn #SciArt #pwME #NaturePhotography #TinyJoys
Photograph close up photo of an autumn leaf. The top is deep red and red, gradually turning to yellow. The platten of the veins on the leaf are visible.
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Critically Endangered Swift Parrot is one of just three migratory parrots on earth. Removal of their habitat has left possibly 500 in the wild.

birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...

Ref 📷: Kenton Reeder

#AColorADaypril #SciArt #Art #OnlyBeautifulThings #AustralianParrot #Art #Procreate #WildOz #Bird
A digital oil drawing printed on textured paper of a swift parrot sitting on a thin gum tree branch, with an out of focus gum tree behind. The swift parrot is mainly bright yellow and green, with little bits of red, orange and pink.
April 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Clouds are cool.

Nuff said.

ID: digital drawing of clouds with some blue sky

#AColorADaypril #SkyBlue #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Clouds
Digital watercolour drawing of big fluffy clouds, grey and white, with some blue sky in the top right.
April 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should

#Art #Illustration #Artist #OriginalArt #OnlyBeautifulThings
Graphic with the phrase “just because we can use AI to make art doesn’t mean we should”. Green text on a yellow circle. Behind the circle is a pattern of yellow and green pineapples in columns. Alternate columns are upside down. @/maddyobart
April 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Guineafowl.

An African bird found on many Australian farms.

ID: digital drawings of a Grey Guineafowl perched on a wooden fence beam, beak open mid call.

#AColorADaypril #Grey #SciArt #OnlyBeautifulThings #Art #Illustration #Procreate #Guineafowl #BirdArt #AddBirder 🪶
Digital watercolour drawing of a Guineafowl in side profile, perched on a wooden fence beam mid sound. It has a really soft style. The bird is light grey with little white spots, and white head and neck.. It has an open red beak, red wattle under its chin, and a brown helmet on its head. Its eyes are closed while it’s mid call. Behind the bird is grey clouds.
April 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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When you’re mostly housebound, birds coming to you become even more appreciated.

These little corellas discovered a feast of berries on this day.

#AColorADaypril #White #OnlyBeautifulThings #Uplift #TinyJoys #WildOz #OzBirds #BirdPhotography
Photo of little corellas in a green tree with red berries. 4 birds are perched on top of the branches, the other two are mid flight with the birds about to land on the tree.
April 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.

These gregarious birds are losing their habitats & are among Australia’s more than 200 threatened bird species.

Learn more here: birdlife.org.au/bird-profile...

#AColorADaypril #Black #Artist #SciArt #OnlyBeautifulThings #Art #Illustration #Procreate #BirdArt #WildOz
Digital oil painting of a red tailed black cockatoo worth a teal blue background. In side on profile, it shows the shoulders and above of the black feathered, cream beaked bird. The feathers on top of the bird are puffed up. The feathers also have touches of beige, white and blue.
April 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I love artworks that continue to amuse me months after I created it.

This is one of those!

🐱 👀

#AColorADaypril #Pink #Purple #Peach #Cactus #Cat #CatArt #Art #BotanicalArt #Art #Illustration #Procreate #ProcreateArtist #Artist #Uplift #TinyJoys
A digital watercolour painting of a pink & purple cactus with little thorns in a yellow and pink pot & deep pink soil. The segments are oval shape and each joined to another. Sitting in a white surface in front of a peach wall with two timber framed arched windows either side. The windows show a sea of abstract green tree canopies. Looking in from the bottom of the right window, and almost camouflaged by the trees, is the eyes and ears of a grey cat, looking in at the cactus.
April 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This baby Highland Cow is just so cute 😭

#Art #Illustration #Cow #AnimalArt #TinyJoys #Uplift
Digital ink & watercolour drawing of a little, hairy orange highland cow. Standing in green grass and purple flowers. It has two Flowers in its mouth.
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I love when sport brings moments of humour.

On a night during the Ashes when the English struggled to take a catch, the local Aussie seagulls took pity on them & came to lend a hand.

Thankfully they were already wearing their white uniform 😆

#Green #AColorADaypril
#Art #Illustration #Cricket 🏏
Digital ink and gouache illustration of MCG, with Aussies batting, England fielding, and in the foreground 17 seagulls on the grass. Players in test match white uniforms. The background stand is abstract, with simple kind & colour used for the players and birds.
April 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Day 3 #Yellow for #AColorADaypril

These conjoined bananas gave my household much joy. 😍

It’s a reminder to advocate for “perfectly imperfect” shaped fruit & veg to be sold & not thrown out before it even leaves the farm gate because of supermarket “beauty standards”

#Art #Illustration #TinyJoys
digital drawing of realistic looking conjoined bananas with slight brown speckling on a blue checkered background. The background is more of a retro vibe, and looks like it could be a tablecloth pattern.
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Day 2 #Orange of #AColorADaypril

When art looks so good you want to eat it. 😅

I loved figuring out this painting style with my digital oil brushes. I really should try doing it again when I want to do a long term project!

#Art #ProcreateArtist #SciArt #BSkyArt #DigitalOil @procreate.com
digital painting of branches of oranges and green leaves on an orange tree. Drawn in an oil painting style. White background and border around the work.
April 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Day 1 #Red of #aColorADAYpril

One challenge I enjoy setting myself is creating random shapes/blobs & turning them into creatures.

Behold! The three-legged horse-camel-giraffe.

Highly recommend trying it, even with pen & paper. It’ll give you a good giggle! 😆

#Art #Illustration #ProCreateArtist
A simple digital drawing of a blue creature that kind of looks like a cross between a horse, camel and giraffe. It was three legs, white feet, and a long neck twisted above the body. The head is side on, with a large eye and long open mouth. It also has a white mane. The background is red. @ maddyob.art
April 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Three Ladies of Hoi An.

Inspired by a photo my Aunt took in Hoi An, Vietnam.

It was one of those captures where the second
I saw it, thought I HAVE to draw them!

I think it especially spoke to my photography brain, and love of observing and capturing everyday moments.

#Art #Illustration
Three Asian women carrying two baskets each, hanging off timber pole resting on their shoulders. Baskets full with an array of fruit. They are wearing pants, jacket, socks, thongs, gloves, cone shaped straw hats and fabric scarf covering their chin and mouth. #Vietnam #TravelArt #HoiAn #Travel
April 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What does M.E. feel like?

It’s often impossible to describe.

But this is what my nervous system feels like today.

And I can feel every piece of tangled mess that’s going on inside.

#pwME #MECFS #LongCovid #ME #Art #SciArt #MEart #Disability #ChronicIllness
Digital drawing of overlapping & tangled squiggles and lines. Dark blue background, with the squiggles an assortment of red, yellow, pink, blue & brown.
March 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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This bus drove past me today.

And now it can also drive past you as you scroll on by. ❤️

ID: digital ink & watercolour drawing of the front of an orange bus, with the destination screen text saying “you are loved.” The “o” in love is replaced by a heart.

#Art #TinyJoys #Uplift #Illustration
digital ink & watercolour drawing of the front of an orange bus, with the destination screen text saying “you are loved.” The “o” in love is replaced by a heart.
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM