Dragon Girl Bird

 She (they) finally got finished, just in time to go to Shelby for the Art Show which will be up until March.  Of course by the time you read this, we either will have gotten to Shelby in the rain, or maybe drowned in our efforts to get there. (Rain almost continual on Thurs.)

A second dragon-girl

Here are 2 view before the stain was applied and a cone 6 firing.

Stain applied, before firing.

Again, I'm disappointed with this stain of maganese oxide. I think I'll go back to a thinned black glaze wash.  

I'll do a bit more staining with acrylics. Fortunately sculptures can have paint applied to help me have my vision accomplished.

So as soon as I get a chance, I'll work on both the dragon-girls and then think about where I can show them. They won't go on a table where customers pick up bowls and mugs, that's for sure!

Dragon girl next step

I doused her in manganese stain, and this is how she looks at this stage, before glaze firing.
Note how dark the dragon looked here. I was worried it would be too black.

And after firing to cone six...

There will be some more sepia tones (with acrylics) added where the manganese burned away. And I'll be gluing back the strand of hair that I knocked off...but fired also.

She has a little sister also, which I haven't shared with you yet. Soon...

Dragon-girl

 As they were being assembled

 Drying on the kiln shelf so it wouldn't have to be moved from a batt to the kiln.

The kiln was too hot when I stopped by on Friday, to open and remove...but I did see them. I hope there aren't any cracks. Those wings made all my friends in the studio raise their eyebrows, being concerned that pieces of slab with that much extension were very likely to crack. Me too!

And here it is...before I moved it to my shelf, where a bit of the top of her hair broke off. I think it's fixable after the glaze firing with a tiny spot of glue.

The whole problem is, that big a body would never fly with those flimsy wings.  Where's your aerodynamics brain today?