Today’s art is the kind of thing you do when you aren’t terribly inspired, but really want to try out some new brushes and fresh tubes of paint.

Which is why it’s a semi-abstract, glorified doodle. It’s a series of four very rough cartoonish doodles based on a famous 1928 John de Mirjian photograph of actress/showgirl Wanda Stevenson.  I arranged them sort of Busby Berkley style and distored each figure differently.  Hence the title.

It’s acrylic on illustration board, using brushes that are way more stiff than I use for my more photorealistic pieces. If you think the color scheme is a bit influenced by the flag of Chicago…you might be right.

I wish I had a better reason for having done this besides trying out new brushes and paints, but that’s pretty much why this exists.

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.  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 all Sydney Fileen and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.