Getting into the holiday spirit, this week’s art is a quick and sloppy watercolor of the tree they put up in Giddings Plaza in Chicago. I think I may have done a painting of this tree years ago, but this is new, and while I ran a photo of this a couple of weeks ago, I did this without looking at it for reference. I’ve seen it enough times, and they seem to have the same tree every year, so it wasn’t that much of an artistic feat.

I also used watercolor on textured paper for the first time in months. Even though we stayed a block away from Blick Arts on our recent trip to the Windy City, I didn’t get a chance to duck in and replenish my acrylics, so I’ll have to order some online after the holidays.

This is NOT today’s 12 Posts of Christmas post. That’s coming later.  This is just an exercise in color and finger-loosening on a lazyish Sunday before Christmas.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland,we are  going into Christmas mode on The AIR, Until Midnight, Christmas evening.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

You can expect wall-to-wall holiday specials with music, comedy, drama and holiday gems from the vault. RFC will be new a week from Tuesday, with our final show of 2025, and if all goes well, Boxing Day will hold a couple of surprises, too.