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colorations skip to main skip to sidebar colorations the official blog of colorations decorative painting friday october 1 2010 ewe hoo sneak peek my mother has a friend who collects sheep well not actual sheep but pictures of sheep statues of sheep you get my meaning anyway my mother wants to give her friend a tile with sheep as the subject matter but with a pun at its heart the theme was to be lamb on the lam which conjured up a lot of ideas meredith mark and i kicked around a few ideas a lamb wearing sunglasses a lamb standing on top of another lamb a pair of sheep acting as decoys while a lamb runs away in the distance originally i was going to draw a picture to give to meredith and she was going to make the tile when i started working on the drawing though i was having too much fun and so meredith suggested that i make the tile well i ended up making 20 sheep tiles on the first go around so i think i ll stick with sheep for a while and go back to the girffes later here is a sneak peek at the sheep tiles in progress posted by lee lewis at 11 14 am 3 comments labels ewe hoo lamb on the lam sheep tiles wednesday september 22 2010 tiles here are some of the latest giraffe tiles posted by lee lewis at 3 35 am no comments labels giraffe tiles tuesday september 14 2010 the safari house every time we come back to the safari house there is another new critter of some description this time it is a taxidermied squirrel who is living in the knothole of the tree trunk which makes up the stair rail in the entry he is buddied up with some new african birds who are perched just down the tree trunk and next to the monkey cage posted by lee lewis at 2 29 pm no comments labels safari house under the oaks last saturday we participated in a pottery show and sale in wake forest the weather was perfect the people were nice and there was free music what more could you ask for the giraffe tiles had their second outing and were well received and we sold quite a bit of jewelry too i m ready for another show posted by lee lewis at 2 22 pm no comments labels giraffe tiles pottery show under the oaks wednesday september 8 2010 of course the chandelier at the safari house involves monkeys we re back at the safari house again to try to finish our projects before december while we were away our friend greg sculpted a pair of monkeys holding lanterns they are hanging above the alligator dining room table greg did a masterful job as i think you ll see in these pictures posted by lee lewis at 3 06 pm 2 comments labels monkey sculpture safari house monday september 6 2010 down on the farm i spent most of last week holding down the fort at meredith and mark s while they very kindly took our mother up to see our brother it was a very peaceful week and i was happy to get out of the rat race for a while and look at trees and fields instead of concrete and telephone poles here s the view from the studio door with a field of newly mown hay on the other side of the same door there is a tomato garden the tomatoes have just about petered out but the stalks make a perfect home for this lovely big spider i have always called these writing spiders but their proper name is argiope aurantia whatever her name she is a fine specimen she caught herself some lunch while i was there it was a very quiet week so i got a lot of tiles glazed and meredith fired them yesterday i m eager to see how they came out pictures to come soon posted by lee lewis at 4 47 pm 1 comment labels farm writing spider saturday august 7 2010 back at the safari house again once again we have a new project at the safari house we re staining and varnishing the foot rests for the alligator table and the bar the one for the table is completed and installed and we re waiting for stan to carve the other one posted by lee lewis at 3 34 pm 1 comment labels safari house older posts home subscribe to posts atom my blog list whynot pottery blog spring kiln opening 2025 1 year ago in short blurghhh 13 years ago backcountry notes front page followers blog archive 2010 75 october 1 ewe hoo sneak peek september 5 august 1 june 1 may 28 april 3 march 3 february 30 january 3 about me lee lewis raleigh north carolina united states after graduating college with a degree in fine arts i did what every liberal arts graduate does i got a job in the hotel restaurant industry i stayed with that until 1994 when i started my faux finishing mural painting business with my partner tony we re still at it all these years later and continue to look for new interesting ways to paint view my complete profile