With the last week having been a bad MG week, this week’s art is one I pulled from the slush pile.

A few years ago I took a series of photos looking up while standing at the base of a very tall building in Chicago. I used one of those photos for the basis of a color piece that I ran in this space a few years ago.  However, before that, I attempted to do something different. I had a couple of pieces of weird, glossy black paper, cut into squares, and I decided to try to do something unusual with it.

I drew an architectural-style image based on the photo, but deformed, in pencil on the black paper. Then I “inked” it using white acrylic paint.

The problem was…I had smudged up a lot of the glossy black surface while pencilling it, and wasn’t happy with the end result. So it got the boot.

While going through my reject file to find something to run here this week, I came across this piece and decided that it didn’t look as bad as I’d remembered, and that, if I cheated and cleaned up some of the black areas digitally, it might not be a bad Monday Morning Art piece. And so, here it is. Technically, it’s mixed media, being a pencil/paint/digital hybrid.

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 we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. New shows are on the way this month. 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.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s three classic episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.