Old Metal Lawn Chairs

There is something so fulfilling in painting old furniture.  My sister had three old metal lawn chairs that she had sanded down and prepared for painting, as gifts for her adult daughter.  I got all excited and wanted to do the painting, using a cat theme since I knew her daughter liked cats. My sister agreed and let me pick out colors, so as you can see, I got a bright yellow, a lime green, and tangerine.  I spray painted each chair.  

Then I went on Pinterest for ideas on folk art cat themes.  

The cat on the seat of the chair is a Picasso-inspired cat, bright with energy.  The top one, the blue dude, well, he's a bit more chill.  

My husband executed the cat with balloon theme on the chair, below.  This chair had a pattern in the metal and my sister wanted us to work with that pattern.

My husband is a fast painter.  I watched him paint a bouquet of flowers on the front of a refrigerator we had in our rowhouse in Baltimore.  That was cool.  So he did the same quick job here and pronounced it done.  I continued on, doing the little details along the edges, just to keep it a little busier, matching the energy of the one I'd done above.

This tangerine chair below is the palette, to be finished by my sister.

Working on this project made me so folking happy!