This week’s art is a small pastel crayon study, finished in acrylics, and to be honest, still incomplete. It’s based on photos I took at the large mall in Chinatown in Chicago, and the colors are not accurate.

There was too much red in the photos, and I was playing around with changing some of those colors, and this is sort of half-way through the process. As a study, it captures a lot of what I wanted to, but it needs more work on the color.

Eventually, anyway.

And yes, the title is a nod to The Dickies.

When I do the larger version, I suspect I’ll be including more detail and using more contrast in the non-sun parts.

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 an also classic 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.

Next week Prognosis and Psychedelic Shack will return with new episodes. We almost had them this week, but stuff came up.

At 8 PM you can hear a classic episode of The Comedy Vault devoted to the soon to retire, Dr. Demento.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of episodes of Herman Linte’s Prognosis that focus on lesser-know Prog Rock bands.