I had a very nice conversation with Valentin Yotkov this week, trying to buy some chasing tools. He is a great guy, hope to save up enough $$$ to take one of his classes. So anyway, after I picked myself up off the floor after finding out how much his sets cost, I thought I would ask the group where they buy their tools.

The pendant was created by chasing and repousse and has a liver of sulphur patina.
This is from a series of work I did for a show earlier this month with the theme of Texture. It was inspired by a

My first post here. a diverse group indeed. I've searched and read the conversations about pitch alternatives. I want to ask if anyone has used a substrate such as cork, layered paper, rubber sheets, wood/composite or soft plastic to chase large works (exceeding 6 sq ft - 24 gauge).

Hello, I'm new to this community and wanted to add some images and say hi! I made this piece by using repousse techniques to form the flower and grade rolling to make the other bits.

This is a new picture of my repousse' and I'd like some feed back, I'm working hard to get better pictures of my work. I like it much better than the previos photos.

OK now let me have it, I asked for it,