This week’s art is a quick ‘n’ sloppy acrylic study based on a series of photos I took out the window of an Amtrak sleeper car as we were making our way through Indiana on our way to Chicago a few weeks ago.

It was about 5 AM and we had just pulled out of the long stop at the Indy Amtrak station.  I was awake because I don’t really sleep too well on the train, and the skies had a wild orange glow due to the smoke from the Canadian wildfires that had been blowing our way. On this trip, Mel and I were sharing images with our friend Pixie, in Liverpool, and I sent her this with a comment that I was thinking about doing a painting based on it. She was very supportive of the idea.

In fact, she sort or ordered me to do it.

In the photos the sun is pretty consistent, but the backgrounds changed, so I took elements of several of them and then ignored the way the sun lit up all the dirt on the outside of the window. This is acrylic on illustration board. At some point I will revisit this and do a larger version on canvas. I actually toned down the orange here. The sky was shockingly orange, but as I progressed, I wasn’t happy with the color balance, so I cheated a little and let some blue sky peek through.

When I do the larger version, I suspect I’ll be including more detail and using more contrast in the non-sun parts.

If you want to see this here art bigger for some reason, look HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also classic edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of what was supposed to run Saturday morning, recapping the previous week’s shows on The AIR. A technical SNAFU screwed up the order of shows and left some out, so I decided to have a do-over.