Suspicious Sunburns

That’s totally an awesome band name.

It’s also what I’ve got after today’s adventure in furniture restoration. It was a  very sunny day which was perfect for painting outdoors. I had great light to see where to paint and the layers dried quickly in the warm air. Unfortunately, the sun also meant that I burned a nice lobster color. I’m a freckler, so it will probably disappear in a few days…but until it does, it’s going to look very weird.

Why?

Because I’m an exuberant painter…in which “exuberant” means “messy”.  And “messy” means “I have paint all over me”.   Oh, I could come up with lots of excuses…there were bees that need to be swatted, and breezes that blew hair that needed to be fixed, sneezes that needed to be covered and brows that needed to be wiped. But really, I’m just messy. (same thing goes for baking…I’m usually covered in flour by the end) It doesn’t really bother me most of the time, I dress accordingly and most substances wipe off easily. But today there was a side effect to my messiness that I didn’t anticipate….my sunburn. Or rather, my lack of sunburn where there was paint on me. Yup, there are pale splotches across my forehead, cheek, nose and arms where the sun couldn’t penetrate the smears of paint. Very strange looking.

Lesson to be learned…paint is an effective sunscreen use sunscreen when painting outside.