Kettlebell Painting, Practice Run

Oh, this is too easy.

I bought a whole mess of Rustoleum spray paint. I decided I needed a practice run. I’ve never really used spreay paint or painted a kettlebell. I have a 4K bell that I never use, it’s going to work to be my paperweight. It began as all kettlebells begin.

I made  a suspension to work from. It doesn’t permit me to spin the bell but that is okay, I’ll work with what I have. I also used tape to mask the handle. I think I’m going to leave the handles black. So I primed it.

Any layer of paint takes about 2 – 5 minutes to apply then I go do something else for half an hour. if you wanted to get some mixing of color you could do this quicker. I started with orange.

Then I decided I wanted to go over it quickly with red, hoping to give it some highlights. in retrospect I did this backward. I should have gone over it with red then orange and just let some of the red show through.

Then I let it dry overnight.

Now I have a distinctive kettlebell.

Next I will start in on a bell I actually use….