This week we are not doing art based on Chicago. In fact, we’re bringing you an abstract acrylic painting, a tiny one in fact, inspired by a series of digital paintings I did around fifteen years ago.

To be honest, the piece you see above, which was done on a six-by-six inch piece of illustration board, started out as a scrap I was using to test paint mixes. Once it was too filled to be of use for that, I realized that the splotches could be doctored a bit to look sort of like some of the digital artworks that I posted in this feature back in the early days of PopCult.

So it just took a little more paint and the judicious use of some straight-edges and my new flexible curves, and then you get the deep, introspective and highly intellectual abstract that you see above.

Really it’s just a doodle. Part of the reason you’re seeing it is that a week of clearing snow left me with fairly useless fingers, so this was all I could muster. it’s sorta purty, though, doncha think?

To see it bigger try clicking HERE. If you look at this one on a computer screen, you’redefinitely seeing it larger than it was painted.

Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also recent 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.

Starting Monday night at 7 PM and running until Wednesday morning at 7 AM, we are bringing you a marathon of some of the best episodes of Radio Free Charleston from the last half of 2024. We’re taking the week off from doing a new episode because of some medical appointments we have clustered in the beginning of the week, so I figured going full-tilt RFC for a day and a half might take some of the sting out of that.