Monday Morning Art: My Mel

This week our art is an acrylic painting of my beautiful wife, Mel Larch.

It’s inspired in part by a photo I was able to sneakingly snap while we were waiting to meet Ellen Greene in Baltimore at a 40th anniversary screening of Little Shop of Horrors a week ago last Saturday.

You can see the actual photo in this post.

Now you may notice that, in that photo, Mel is not smiling, and her head is not in the same position. I basically just wanted to paint her with that lighting, so I used it for color reference. I mean, I know what my wife looks like. While we were waiting to be ushered into the room where Ellen Greene was, I was just staring at her face the whole time. She was just radiant while at the same time being nervously cute as hell.

Seriously, she’d be my muse and would be in a lot more of my paintings if not for the fact that she desperately despises being photographed and while I would love to make pretty pictures of her for the rest of my life…it’s not worth the distress that it would cause her.

In fact, I had to sneak and paint this, stashing it out of sight every time she walked by the office.  She would’ve made me put something else in this spot.

However, I’m willing to risk her ire for the sake of a good painting once in a while. This was done on a smallish canvas with acrylics…with love.

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 an encore of a more recent episode 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.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.