Christmas is behind us, but my memories of our early December trip to Chicago linger.  This week it’s an Impressionistic take on State Street in the River North area, inspired from the view out of our very high hotel room, late at night.

I did a rough drawing of this scene on my since-retired phone, then looking at it for reference, I knocked this out on illustration board using watercolor brush pens, acrylics and a few Winsor Newton inks.  My real-world art is getting increasingly mixed media of late.

I wasn’t really going for high-detail or Hopperesque atmosphere here. I just thought the lights and colors looked cool from that angle, so I went with it.  I’ve done a few pieces of Monday Morning Art based on State Street…everything from high-detail pencil drawings to Cubism, but this time I just wanted to try something a little different. I may take this to canvas in a larger scale later.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland Monday, to close out the year, beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a 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.

At 2PM, Nigel Pye brings you yet another hour of Psychedelic Rock from many eras. Check out the playlist…

Psychedelic Shack 096

The Paupers “South Down Road”
Mind Garage “Angel Asks”
Sunlight “Colors of Love”
Goat Generator “Waving Around”
Cold Sun “Ra-Ma”
D.R. Hooker “Falling Asleep”
Roy Wood “Dear Elaine”
King Buffalo “Regenerator”
Things To Come “Good Day”

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.

At 3 PM Herman Linte brings us two hours of some of the coolest progressive rock released in 2024, just to leave this year on a high note.

Check out the playlist:

Prognosis 123

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks “Counties and Countries”
Tony Levin Band “Road Dogs”
Flame Dream “Winding Paths”
Beardfish “Beating Hearts”
Meanwhile Project “Catch 22”
Crippled Black Phoenix “Whisserdine”
Karkara “Moonshiner/The Chase”
Rosalie Cunningham “Heavy Pencil”
Rick Wakeman “The King Arthur Piano Suite”
Marillion “Grendel (Live Reading 1983)”
Marc Almond with Ian Anderson “I Talk To The Wind”

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 classic and intelligent stand-up comedy by Bob Newhart on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to milestone episodes of our music specialty programs. These are 100th, 200th, 150th and other big round numbers of our regular afternoon programs, just so you can see how much stuff we played since The AIR began in 2016.