Repainting all our fences here myself one last time. Good experience calling for a variety of skills. Be prepared to go back the next day for touch-ups: important to have a variety of brush sizes and to use aluminum foil for wrapping used brushes if you plan to reuse them.
This time around, we have squirrel friends using the fences. I put up plant pots on fenceposts at strategic points, discouraging travel and then first painted all the fence tops and crossbeams which they use. Doing this all at once to minimize hassle for the critters. Paint usually dries in a couple of hours. Reverence for Nature 101.