This week’s art started life as a small study on cheap canvas board, based on a photo I took on the Brown Line last summer in Chicago.  Just like last week, if you were paying attention.

However, this one seemed less promising, so I set it aside less than one-third finished.

Last week I found it in the slush pile and decided to go at it with a darker, spookier color palette because I didn’t really have anything else remotely Halloween-y to run this week. The end result is what you see above. This was done with thick acrylics, white-out and a little bit of ink, using brushes, foam brushes, flexible curves, straight-edges and a small assortment of palette and X-Acto knives.

It’s a tiny painting. Chances are, if you’re looking at it on a computer monitor, you’re seeing in larger than actual size.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

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 start our Halloween programming with a Goblin-centric 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 5 PM our Halloween programming begins in earnest with an early Monday Marathon.  You’ll be able to listen to large blocks of Halloween specials and spooky editions of our regular programs in large blocks of airtime all week long on The AIR. In addition to our musical specialty shows, you’ll also get treats like the Orson Welles adaptation of War of the Worlds, and Oingo Boingo’s Farewell Concert, along with other scary audio delights.