How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

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How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

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. Clays with a high degree of sand or grog in them sometimes are prone to cracking from the extra wetting of the slip. 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. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. Mocha diffusion is a pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. I have also posted more information and the slip recipe below excerpted from robin s classic book making.

In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other. This shows you what supplies you will need and how to do the process. It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip. 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.

Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower. Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration. Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques.