How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

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How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other. Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower. An alkali acid mechanism is. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques.

I ll show you how to create solid opaque images as w. This video is a step by step guide to using underglazes to add an illustrative design to your ceramics. Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. This video shows you how to do a surface technique on clay called mocha diffusion.

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. 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. It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip. Pottery with mocha diffusion decoration is also referred to as mochaware.

Clays with a high degree of sand or grog in them sometimes are prone to cracking from the extra wetting of the slip. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. 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. This shows you what supplies you will need and how to do the process.