Your humble blogger’s hands were actually working this weekend, and a pressing deadline was dealt with and finished early, so you get some fresh off the easel art this week, dashed off Sunday evening as dusk fell with a clunk.

This is a small color rough for an image I’ve been wanting to paint for a while. It’s based on a couple of photos I took last June while riding the Brown line around Chicago’s famed Loop District. I was able to capture the point where you can look out the window as you go around a turn and see the end of the train you’re riding.

Yay!

This is acrylic on illustration board, and I did it so fast that I didn’t bother to fix the big smudge near the middle. I’m going to repeat this on a larger canvas eventually anyway. I just wanted to see if I could capture the color and the lighting while not painting all the reflections and the dirt on the windows.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you an encore of a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with 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 that delivers a boot to the head, courtesy of the Canadian comedy troupe, The Frantics.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our new Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute: Psychedelic Shack, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat and Prognosis.