How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery.

How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques. Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration. Mocha diffusions traditionally were done on both red and white earthenware but they can be done on almost any clay body and fired at almost any temperature. Clays with a high degree of sand or grog in them sometimes are prone to cracking from the extra wetting of the slip.

Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower. I ll show you how to create solid opaque images as w. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other. This video is a step by step guide to using underglazes to add an illustrative design to your ceramics.

Mocha diffusion is a pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip. Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. Very cool way to add surface design to your ceramics please email any questions to sandra hensrud und edu.

I have also posted more information and the slip recipe below excerpted from robin s classic book making. It sounds like a yummy coffee drink but mocha diffusion is a surface decoration developed and used in the southwest of england now made famous by kevin s viral videos. An alkali acid mechanism is. Today i am sharing an excerpt from a video by the late robin hopper in which he demonstrates how to do mocha diffusion as well as his slip dotting technique.