How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

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How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

An alkali acid mechanism is. Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower. 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.

Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration. Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip.

This video shows you how to do a surface technique on clay called mocha diffusion. 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. 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 slipware techniques.

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 pottery painting technique that involves a chemical reaction between an acid and a base liquid. In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other. Pottery with mocha diffusion decoration is also referred to as mochaware.