How To Fire Mocha Diffusion Ceramics

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

How to fire mocha diffusion ceramics.

It happens when bleeding occurs at the edges of a thin colored acidic mixture painted over a still wet slip. 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. Mocha diffusion is a technique of layering slips onto ware so that the edges of the upper one bleed outward into the lower.

In this pottery video potter robin hopper shows how to use mocha diffusion and other slipware techniques. Pottery with mocha diffusion decoration is also referred to as mochaware. 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.

This shows you what supplies you will need and how to do the process. 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. Clays with a high degree of sand or grog in them sometimes are prone to cracking from the extra wetting of the slip. Very cool way to add surface design to your ceramics please email any questions to sandra hensrud und edu.

Suitable clays and slips for mocha diffusion. A technique used by ceramic artists to decorate pottery. I ll show you how to create solid opaque images as w. Cuerda seca mocha diffusion decoration techniques duration.