#191 Water Glass 9/14/19

I was feeling sick all day....got myself a shingles vaccine yesterday after work, and today I felt flu-like all day.  With a weird  exception though.  Today was the "Stained Glass Vendor Extravaganza" in Frederick, it only comes once a year and I've always missed it.  Today I vowed to make it, so I had to go even though the vaccine was kicking my butt.  While I was perusing this extravaganza of ideas and color and people I didn't notice a thing about nausea or headache or feverishness or lay-down-now feelings.  I got to the check-out area (who can go into a glass shop and not buy glass???) and I thought perhaps the vaccine side-effects had run its course, but as I stood still, waiting my turn at the register, bam, sick again!  I got home and took a nap, then stayed on the couch and called my parents, then ate some dinner that consisted of crackers and a smidge of hummus.  I was going to go to bed, but because it was Saturday and I was off work I HAD to paint something (or else suffer guilt and self-loathing).  I brought up my photo stash and said: simple.  I ended up with a photo of a glass from the basement bar.  It has lovely faceted sides, so I snapped some pics a few weeks ago.  In my delirium I put the tracing down and said: finish quick.  I smushed orange paint around the perimeter of the glass, then wiped it dry with a piece of scrap fabric so I wouldn't have to fight with it coming on too strong with the next layer.  I put Light Graphite on next, with some white mixed into on the light-source side.  Three quarters of the canvas was covered, so I was feeling on track.  I continued with crazy picks of color for the glass, some red near the bottom, some terra verte, some black for the edges, why not, some of my new Naples Yellow, get it covered and go to bed!  I look at what I did, I like it, but it feels like a stranger might have painted it.  More painterly than I'm used to, kind of like my crab paintings but I planned all of the painterly stuff on the crab paintings.  The water glass just happened.  Carol Marine said something hilarious on one of her recent posts, well actually her husband David said it.  That sometimes she gets into a painting trance, that the painting gets done but she can't remember the details of getting it done, and her husband has dubbed the phenomenon a "paint-gasm".  Given my feverish state I'm not sure that's what happened, but I'll take it!