This week’s art is a bit of a sequel to last week’s.  Like last week, it’s a small  mixed media painting  based on photos I took the week before last during a return trip from a secret mission that you will learn about in a few days.

On thick illustration board, this painting was created using acrylic paint, watercolor, Winsor Newton ink, white-out, razor blades and X-acto knives, a variety of brushes and straight edges. For this one I actually used an old-school GI Joe hand–the one with the pointy fingers, to get a solidly thick line.  This idyllic winter scene is another based on a series of photos I took on the drive back home down I-79, after Mel took over driving.

This one was actually taken at a rest area before I turned over the wheel. I made the creative choice to omit some of the scenary, since I wasn’t in the mood to paint signs instructing people where to take their dogs to poop.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

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.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of the legendary and exquisite silliness of Spike Jones on last week’s new episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to five more episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  For the rest of this year we will be alternating between Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, because we’re going to be pulling the early episodes of those shows from the server soon to make room for newer programs. After they’ve been offline for a year or so, we’ll bring them back into rotation but for now, you can hear them Monday evening into Tuesday morning, and then those episode will go on hiatus.