How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

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.

How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. This shows you what supplies you will need and how to do the process. I ll show you how to create solid opaque images as w. Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration.

Mocha diffusion is a pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. Very cool way to add surface design to your ceramics please email any questions to sandra hensrud und edu. This video shows you how to do a surface technique on clay called mocha diffusion. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other.

An alkali acid mechanism is. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques. Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower. 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. 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. This video is a step by step guide to using underglazes to add an illustrative design to your ceramics. Pottery with mocha diffusion decoration is also referred to as mochaware.