This week’s art is a pastel on illustration board rough color study for a painting that I eventually want to do in high-detail in acrylics on a much larger canvas. This was me basically just trying to jot down the composition and color, and the shadows…most importantly, the shadows.

I dipped into a little of my Hopper training for those.

This represents my view, looking down while sitting on my front porch, waiting for my lovely wife to come out so we could go have lunch at the Red Line Diner in Saint Albans.

I had the Greek Salad. It was great.

When I looked down I saw the patterns created by the shadows. When I do this in high-detail, I plan to go all-out on the textures of the grass, the cement steps and my jeans, but this is just a rough. I have neither the time nor the dexterity at the moment to present a finished piece. As it is, the sloppy nature sort of has a charm of its own, even though some of the texture work was accidental.

I suppose the point of this, aside from just trying to capture the cool shadows, is to show that, when people tell you not to look down on yourself, they don’t know what they’re missing.

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 raunchy tunes from Rusty Warren.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our new 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. Tonight that overnight marathon presents three episodes of Herman Linte’s Prognosis.