Our final piece of art for the year is another sloppy watercolor, this time on a new textured illustration board, depicting a view of Chicago’s famed L tracks as they turn a corner in The Loop.

This is based on a series of photos I took out of the hallway window at The Wit when we were in the Windy City for Mel’s birthday a few weeks ago. My reference pics weren’t great because there were reflections marring all of them, so I had to keep jumping between them to see what stuff looked like. It was pretty dreary and overcast, and that didn’t help matters any. It will be a challenge, but I may try to tighten this one up considerably and maybe try to change the lighting, eliminate the snow and do it in a Hopperesque style in the future.

Or I may just try to get better reference pictures from a slightly different angle and do a whole new painting. Who knows what the future and new year will bring at this point?

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 kick off our Christmas programming with 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.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our newish 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.