Yeah, I’m still doing Chicago-inspired art. This week it’s a pastel crayon tiny sketch that I may take up as a watercolor study at some point, and consider as a candidate for canvas. I’m still undecided. This was done on textured paper, scanned, color-corrected and cropped. It’s based on a blurry photo taken from the Brown Line on the L, as it was crossing the Chicago River, leaving the loop.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a recent 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.

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. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of The National Lampoon Comedy Hour on last week’s episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM the Monday Marathon presents ten hours of Halloween themed programming, to get you in the mood for the season.