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How to do Mocha Diffusion on pottery + tests
In this blog we will go through the necessary steps of how to do mocha diffusion on your artwork. There's a lot of misinformation about this in the ceramic art world and this blog should help clear up a large majority of it.
This blog will supply you with a couple of things. Firstly it will tell you what mocha diffusion is and where the term comes from, secondly it will give you a recipe to try out for yourself although you can change it very easily, and thirdly it will supply a relatively long video full of experiments that will supply you with evidence of what I am saying within the blog.
Glaze development this month (Tenmoku Gold cone 6 ox)
Earth Nation Ceramics is redeveloping the classic tenmoku gold glaze with a new recipe. See his experiments and journey as he goes through multiple iterations of the glaze just to find the perfect non craze tenmoku gold glaze.
Why Water should be treated as an ingredient in glaze composition.
Testing Iron purity in Red Iron Oxide. How to do Loss on ignition test.
This blog will teach ceramic artists and glaze makers about loss on ignition and how to test their Red iron oxide purity by using the loss on ignition test with their kilns.
How to make an Iron saturated Red at cone 6 oxidation.
This bog goes in depth on how to mae a deep iron saturated kaki red glaze in one 6 oxidation.
New glaze in development (Garurumon Line)
A (very) basic understanding of glaze and glaze running.
A Very basic understanding of what ceramic glaze is and how to prevent running.
Just before dawn. A.C
How Matt is Real matt
Strong arming zinc (It didn't work)
Efficaincy of glaze. Perfect example.
This post explorers the difference in efficiency in glazes with respects to silica, alumina, and flux ratios and amounts.
1st try (Growlmon)
Making a kaki tomato red for cone 6 oxidation (what it is, what it is not)
I’m at your neck AC prt 2
I'm at your neck AC
Iron chromate Breakthrough
Living through minimal mineral history
Iron chromate line test
The Silicone line test
Silicone carbide line test with copper oxide.
Leaving red
Ending the development cycle on my search for a cone 6 oxidation red. The development cycle was a great success. The glaze turned out exactly how I wanted and imagined.