Summer is coming and this is a repeat post from last year. After a year on the beach deck, this barbecue cover STILL looks great!
There is nothing I hate more than those black barbecue covers, especially when they become weather beaten. So every year or so, I paint mine. This year it is Monet's lily pads. In five easy steps, you can paint one too!
1. Go to Home Depot and buy an enamel spray can of navy blue paint and small cans of outside gloss paint in medium green, white, pink and medium blue.
Spray the barbecue cover with the navy blue enamel from top to bottom, left to right, in horizontal lines. Don't worry if you leave spaces and it is blotchy in places.
2. Use a small brush to draw the lily pads with the medium green gloss paint. Make narrow circles and overlap. Just draw the outline. Don't worry if it isn't perfect... The Impressionists weren't either!
3. Fill in the lily pads. Use broad strokes and leave it loose.
4. Loosely mix a little of the white and pink paints, and with a small brush make "W" strokes close together on top of the lily pads. Scatter them throughout.
5. Make horizontal lines between the lily pads with the medium blue paint. With the white paint, "dot" here and there on the blue lines. Then mix the medium green paint with some white paint and outline all the lily pads. Voila--a beautiful Monet barbecue cover!
Tip: Leave the back unpainted. That way you know what side is the back when it is time to put the cover on.
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