How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques.

How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

An alkali acid mechanism is. 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. 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 pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other. I have also posted more information and the slip recipe below excerpted from robin s classic book making.

Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. Pottery with mocha diffusion decoration is also referred to as mochaware. This shows you what supplies you will need and how to do the process. Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration.

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. Very cool way to add surface design to your ceramics please email any questions to sandra hensrud und edu. It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip. 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.