Monday Morning Art: Train on the Tracks

This week’s art is a pen and ink drawing with markers on Paper for Pens.  It’s based on a series of photos I grabbed with my phone while waiting on the Amtrak platform in Baltimore so we could come home a couple of weeks ago.

I roughed this out in blue pencil, which I don’t think I’ve used since the 1980s, then worked over everything in various marker pens.

You can probably tell that I started on the right, and worked my way to the left, and was really half-assing the cross-hatching by the time I was done.

But it came out okay. I had to run it through filters to get rid of the blue pencil after scanning it, and that was more complicated than I thought it would be, so the contrast might be a little off. I originally though of this as a rough for a painting, but now I think it’ll just stay as it is.

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 do the same with an encore of a more recent episode 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.

Tonight at 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.