We are back in Chicago for this week’s art, which is a watercolor rough based on a photo I took last June of the famed Cloudgate sculpture in Chicago’s Millenium Park. I took the photo from a different angle than usual, from one end of the “Bean,” so that you don’t see the curvature in the middle.  It makes for a more symetrical panoramic distortion. Maybe a little less funhouse-mirror-y.

This started out as an ambitious watercolor on cold press paper (thank you Blick Art) but as it neared completion, after spending way too much time painting with watercolors while using a straight-edge, I got frustrated and decided that I will revisit the image in acrylics on canvas at a later time. So I filed this attempt away as a color rough. However, since the weather has my MG flaring up a bit and I had other things going on to keep me from spending any time on art for the last few days, I decided to go ahead and share this one with you.

I think it really needs a much higher level of ultra-detail to achieve what I wanted.  But this version is passable.

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 Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis. New shows are on the way this month. 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 9 PM we bring you our 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. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s another mix of all three of our shows from our friends in the UK.