The first Monday Morning Art of the new year is a modest cheap-marker-on-cheap-paper line drawing.  Based on a photo taken from the gym at The Wit (a very nice hotel in The Loop in Chicago), this is a depiction of the building that houses WLS-TV, Channel 7, in Chicago. It also houses a ton of other stuff (like a very tasty Potbelly restaurant) and I think it’s appeared in Monday Morning Art in the past, only from a much higher angle.  The Wit is basically across the street, a little catty-corner (with the L running between the two buildings).

Anyway, this was drawn using cheap art markers from Five Below (and a straight edge) on some cheap scrap paper, and you’re probably seeing it close to actual size if you’re looking at it on a computer monitor.

This was basically just a finger-limbering exercise because I was out of town for most of the weekend and felt like drawing a bunch of lines and not much else.  It’s closer to math than art, really.

As for the trip, we had to hit over two dozen Walmarts in four states over the last two months, but we finally found Mel’s SpongeBob Squarepants cereal. So the trip was a major success.

If you want to see this image even 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 kick off our Christmas programming with 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.

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.