This week is the finished version of a piece I started a couple of months ago. Actually, it’s not “finished.” It’s a study for a potential Hoppereque painting I may do in the future…but it’s finished for now.

This is a pastel crayon (with a little bit of Prismacolor cheating) drawing on illustration board, inspired by a composite of a couple of photos I took on The L in Chicago back when we were there in July. I liked the odd assortment of train and traffic signals seen from an atypical angle, and I decided to drop them into a different neighborhood because I liked the way it looked better.  The row houses in the background screamed “Hopper” at me.

It’s mainly an exercise in light, shadow and color composition. Nothing too fancy.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also new 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.

These just came in at the last minute, so I don’t have playlists.  Nigel promises that his show includes “really trippy cool stuff…as usual,” while Herman relays that this week’s Prognosis is a mixtape salute to the solo work of Steve Howe, of YES and GTR fame.

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 an hour of conceptual comedy by The Frantics on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to five more episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  We will be alternating between Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat for the next several weeks, because we’re going to be pulling the early episodes of those shows from the server soon to make room for newer programs. After they’ve been offline for a year or so, we’ll bring them back into rotation but for now, you can hear them Monday evening into Tuesday morning, and then those episode will go on hiatus.