We are back in Chicago this week for a small acrylic painting on illustration board that depicts what is probably the worst view of the famed Willis Tower, once the tallest building in the world (and once known as The Sears Tower, back when Sears was a thing).

This is my first color piece in a few weeks, and I’m fairly sure I’ve painted Willis Tower from this angle before, but this time I left out other buildings, lamp posts and traffic signals, and just used some of my photos from last July to reference the reflections on the side of the building. I honestly can’t recall if any of my prior paintings from this angle made it into this feature in PopCult.

This was an exercise in getting the fingers working with brushes and color again, and also trying to justify standing across the street from Willis Tower pointing my camera almost straight up to get reference photos.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a recent 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.

At 8 PM you can hear Neil’s Heavy Concept Album, a Young Ones side project starring Nigel Planer on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon We begin a 35-hour marathon of Radio Free Charleston, which will include the regularly-scheduled airings of a new episode because Tuesday is the 35th anniversary of Charleston’s longest-running local music showcase. I’m working on some surprises from the archives for our new episode this week.