This week’s art is me revealing a bit of my process. Based on a few photos I took in Chicago, this is the beginning of a painting of a couple of distinctive buildings. For this small study on textured paper, I’d planned to lay down a rough ink wash sketch in one color, then build on that with a variety of media until I got it looking the way I wanted it.

This was supposed to be the first step, but when I got this far, I decided that I wanted to go with a different shade of blue for my base, instead of the mix of sky blue and emerald that I used here.  (There’s also some indigo and black in the mix for shading). I’ll be starting this one over, probably with a tweak to the composition as well.

However, this version wound up looking pretty good, despite not being what I wanted my final vision to resemble, so I’m sharing it here as a “happy accident.”

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 conceptual random comedy a classic early episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to five more episodes of Prognosis.  That hat Halloween is out of the way, we are back to alternating between Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat for the next several weeks, 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.