Our art is new again this week, and it’s a pencil drawing.

Actually, it’s a “pencils” drawing. I used my Blackwing Palamino, a charcoal pencil, a wax pencil and even a cheap mechanical pencil, plus a straight edge and the better part of a Blackwing eraser.

I had this idea to try to draw Chicago’s “Bean” (otherwise known as Cloudgate) in pencil on copy machine paper…from memory.

I’ve spent hours looking at photos I took of The Bean in Millenium Park over the years, so this wasn’t exactly a feat of astounding ability. I knocked this out in three sessions over three days, and it’s far from perfect, but I’m happy enough with it.

It was another case of me fighting through a Myasthenia Gravis flare-up. This time stubbornness prevailed.

To see this week’s art bigger try clicking HERE.

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 the Simpsons sing on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, focusing on a few special theme episodes.