Yere there be dragons.

creators · Yere there be dragons.

Do not mess with dragons for you are crunchy and go well with Ketchup. Anyway, these are many years old but I thought I'd stick them up cos I made them. They're made of earthenware clay, took three months each to build and breathed fire once.

flapjack · you made them

wow these are fantastic! Are they in your garden? Love them Smile

creators

Thanks Flapjack, I don't have any of them now but this one lives with my sister.

hil26

They must have names.

like the first one, a lot

creators

Probably Dave, though I don't think my sister has named hers. The rest went to dragon friendly homes but I'm not in touch with them so don't know.

flapjack · missing dragons

Blue

Wow- amazing detail! You're quite the- umm- creator, Keith! Laughing

I bet those were a lot of fun to make. Smile

creators

Thanks Blue, hence the name and my first web site creators-not-consumers, and why I think creative people are the life blood of the world.

They were a lot of fun and incredibly hard work, the clay had to be kept at exactly the right humidity and each scale was hand shaped and stuck on from the tiniest ones on the tail to the big uns on the body, dried slowly and fired, literally trial by fire, lost a few too. I hope to get back there one day, but no kiln now is just a bit of a problem.

Blue

I have seen directions for building your own outdoor kiln. Doesn't look too terribly hard, and seems like it might be right up your alley... of course it depends on where you live, because of the smoke and all. Plus, I don't know if I would trust it with something I had worked on for months. Probably not as reliable as an electric.

creators

It'd probably be worth checking out Blue, but the advantage of electric or gas is in maintaining a constant temperature.

Yere there be dragons.

you made them

missing dragons