Your humble blogging artiste has finally recovered enough to do a painting without whining about anything this week.

What you see above is a smallish painting, done in thick acrylics on illustration board, and based on a weird photo I snapped while waiting on the train to Chicago back at the beginning of June.

We had to kill time on the platform, and I decided to try to grab a shot of the state capitol building by zooming my new phone in as far as it would go. The results were sort of abstract-looking, like I’d run the image through a zillion filters or something.

This week I decided to try a quick painting based on the image, but I squooshed it in a bit and made the colors a bit more vibrant, and you see what came out at the head of this post.

The actual photo is seen at right in particularly tiny form.

Weird, isn’t it?

Anyway, that’s me getting back into the groove of making more real-world art.

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 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 devoted to the comedy of Bob Newhart. Wednesday we’ll bring you an hour of the satiricaly brilliance of Tom Lehrer, who just passed away yesterday at the age of 97.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, and these are shows devoted to the women of New Wave music, so prepare to get in touch with your feminine side as you relive the 80s.