Today’s art is another small color rough of a possible high-detail painting I may do as a high-detail Hopperesque piece later. This time I went back to a pencil rough that I did six years ago, and fleshed it out a bit in pastel crayon to try to get the colors looking like I remembered from a January, 2020 trip to Chicago, right before the world shut down for a while. It’s a look at the famed skyline as seen from Navy Pier, which was delightfully nearly deserted because we were there in the dead of Winter.

At the time I just did the pencil version on textured paper, then set it aside. This time I went in and worked it over with pastel crayons because it’s Sunday and I spent the weekend with my lovely wife celebrating Valentine’s Day, and this post is due to go live in about six hours.

So…quick ‘n’ sloppy it is!

Someday, when I have all the time and money in the world and my Myasthenia Gravis lets up for more than a day or two, I’ll get around to doing all these canvas paintings I keep talking about.

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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 we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. New shows are on the way this month. 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.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our 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. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s a mix of all three of our shows from our friends in the UK.