This week’s art is a straight portrait of my friend Pixie, who currently lives in Liverpool, England. This is based on a selfie she posted to social media a couple of weeks ago, and it’s a case of yours truly doing a simple grid transfer pencil portrait on paper for pens, using my trusty Blackwing Palamino as well as a charcoal pencil.

Originally I’d planned to present a more cartoonish drawing of Pixie, based on a strange dream I had where we were fighting Joe Manchin in an abandoned automatic car wash, but a weird quirk of having Myasthenia Gravis and having worked digitally for more than a decade is that it’s way, way easier for me do a photo-realistic drawing than it is to revert to my old cartoonist style.  I was able to knock out this drawing in less than an hour. The cartoony version is going to take a lot more trial and error.

You will see the fierce cartoon Pixie, hopefully in a week or four, once I get my cartooning chops back.

Although this is the first time you’ve actually seen her here, Pixie has been mentioned more than a few times in PopCult over the past three years. Even though it’s currently on hiatus, you can read chapters from her compelling life story on her blog HERE.

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 that delivers the poetry and music of Shel Silverstein.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our newish 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.