A long narrow landscape format sketchbook page. Back ground colour salmon pink and orange, pale and blurred together. On top are grey zig zag shapes also pale and blurred. In some of the internal shapes created by the zig zags crisp black circles have been drawn varying in size to fill the shape. Each circle has green shading on the left hand side.

Then mark how there hangs athwart the firmaments swept track,
Yonder a mighty crocodile with vast irratdiant back,
A triple row of perfect teeth?
Under its burnished belly slips a ray of eventide,
The flickerings of a hundred glowing clouds in tenebrous side […]

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Long narrow landscape format sketchbook page. Background coloured in pink and salmon pink with blotches of dark raspberry colour. These blotches have been treated as though they were the centres of flowers inasmuch as they have yellow dots in the centre and magenta petals drawn around them.

The last day of 2025 we spent the morning in the #meanwhilegarden.
'There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling'
#mirabelosler #gardening #pixelfedartist #artistsonpixelfed

Long narrow landscape format sketchbook page. Background dark teal green and purple blending and merging together. A band of outline diamond shapes zig-zags horizontally across the centre section. They are outlined in black and have a soft shadow giving a 3D effect. Between the diamonds the space is filled with small white dots. The remaining bottom section has small yellow flowers made from dots to represent petals, this is repeated in the top section but the flowers are green

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Cellophane flowers in yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Ah!
#johnlennon #lucyintheskywithdiamonds #artist #pixelfedartist

#grisaille #palette #acrylic #pixelfedartist
I made myself a grey glass palette. I'm finding it hard to get started so I am getting things ready so I will have no excuses.

A rectangular piece of paper with the word STENCIL outlined in large letters. The background is filled with blended yellow, orange, and green watercolour splashes.

Today the charity shop yielded the treasure of a set of stencils. I tried them out here and I think they might be useful in the Meanwhile Garden. One pound well spent


#charityshopfinds #meanwhilegarden #popupgarden #sketchbook #mastoart #pixelfedartist

A rectangular sheet of yellow paper with a repeating pattern of small, simple green leaves and light orange dots, resembling abstract flowers, on a plain black background.

A rather wishy washy background made me ponder for a while. After my efforts I ended up with a sort of dirty wallpaper effect, it put me in mind of poisonous arsenic
laced Victorian interiors.
#sketchbook #pixelfedartist #mastoart #mastoartist