Slightly Off Center

Everybody's huddling on top of the kiln for warmth!

It's a perennial problem in the fall and winter: getting things dry enough to fire. Even the rare sunny day isn't warm enough to do much good, and leaving the heat on and the fan turning overnight isn't a good option if there's work in progress that needs to stay moist. (Once the sun goes down, my studio makes a surprisingly good damp room. Even uncovered, pots will dry down to leather-hard and then stay that way.)

So the trick is to get enough dry for one firing. Once that happens, there's more than enough residual heat to toast the next kilnload, and the next.

Here's last night's dragons, on their way to their first encounter with fire.

And there's always that one guy... Doesn't it look like the one in the lower right is photo-bombing the rest?