Website Wednesday Feb.12th 2020

This past website wednesday I continued to work on my altered rocking chair, as featured in my last post I was working on cutting off the rocker feet of the chair, sanding with a palm sander and then hand sanding to prepare it for painting. It took longer than anticipated to hand sand all of the fine detailed legs and back support of the chair. So i then continued to pickup the sanding on where I left off of But the good news that I discovered after sanding it was that the chair required little to no wood filler so I just needed to setup my spray paint area to paint. However after taking a step back from the chair the cut off legs looked rather unbalanced and rough so I palm sanded the bottom of the chair feet as flat as I could to make them stable. After that I decided to experiment with cutting off the decorative feet of a broken chair I had on hand to make the new rocking chair legs less blunt in appearance and possibly add height to the chair. But after cutting off the feet of the broken chair to add it was determined that they were too large to fit the chair so I disassembled the foot pads of the broken chair and hammered them on the newly sanded rocking chair instead. This solution rounded off the freshly cut legs to a more finished apperence as well as stabilized the chair of any uneven cutting/sanding that I did manually. From there, I then proceeded to spray paint the chair a pastel green color called green grass.

While waiting for the green chair to finish drying, I then took another one of my chairs that had a rounded oval back and begun to unscrew the seat of the chair off of the metal frame with a screwdriver. Once the seat cushion of the chair was unscrewed I then proceeded to air hose the chair down to get rid of all dust and spray paint that chair a pastel lavender making sure the entire surface was colored. For this chair, there was no prior preparation that had to go into it like sanding or wood filler because it was a metal chair with unique rounded back and unique cast front legs that allowed me to make an exception in material.