So, thirty days ago I was sitting in an ice cream parlor inside Cinncinnati’s Union Terminal Station/Museum Center, and being in ground central of Art Deco, I was struck by the elegance of the light fixtures in said ice cream parlor. So I decided to paint them.

This is a small study, mixed media (but mostly acrylic) on illustration board. I used some of the lessons I’ve learned imitating Hopper, but tried to put a bit of my own spin on it.

I have not yet decided if I want to take this to a larger canvas. I’m a little skittish about spending my art copying somebody else’s art, and that’s basically what I’m doing here–copying the cool Art Deco designs.

You can expect to see a lot more pieces inspired by the Union Terminal, though. It’s so visually stunning I have to try to capture it. I mean, these are just the lights in the ice cream parlor and they look like something out of Metropolis.

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 an encore of 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.  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 a classic episode of The Comedy Vault devoted to live performances by Monty Python.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our new 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: Psychedelic Shack, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat and Prognosis.