This week our subject is still Chicago, but our medium is one I haven’t used for quite a while. This is a view of the famed Chicago skyline, as seen from an elevated section of The Art Institute of Chicago.  It’s actually rather small, but I tried to do a high-detail drawing using nothing but Prismacolor colored pencils on paper for pens.

And I did this when the cold weather was playing hell with my Myasthenia Gravis. It took several sessions over three days to get this to where it is. I cropped out the sloppy borders. I also had to take lots of breaks due to hand cramps.

I might be going back to mixed media for a while.  That gives me the chance to switch to tools that are easier to hold.

Since it’s a view of the skyline from just across the street, it doesn’t really inclue the whole thing, which is why it’s an “excerpt.” It’s sort of a view within the skyline. This is looking out of a window in one of the galleries that’s located in the elevated bridge that goes over the Metra lines. The trees you see are on the fringe of Millenium Park.

This is a study for a possible Hopperesque painting sometime in the future.  I’ll probably have to lose some of the busy detail and signs of life before I try that. I’ll also use paint, and hope that the reds don’t smear as much.

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 The National Lampoon on an encore of a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of classic Disco with Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL.