Skip to Content
Registrations Closed

Chasing and Repoussé: Draw 3-Dimensionally in Metal

From a flat sheet of metal, create 3-D geometric designs and figurative drawings using chasing and repoussé techniques.

Starts
Ends
Add to calendar:
Chasing and Repoussé: Draw 3-Dimensionally in Metal

Chasing and Repoussé: Draw 3-Dimensionally in Metal

From a flat sheet of metal, create 3-D geometric designs and figurative drawings using chasing and repoussé techniques.

Pricing
Tuition Assistance and Policies
See more
Cancellation & Other Policies
See more
Registrations Closed

About

Explore chasing and repoussé techniques and learn methods for transferring a line drawing onto sheet metal. Then, following the pattern or drawing on your metal, you’ll create dimension by “pushing” the raised portions of your design from the back of the metal using repoussé punches. You’ll complete the design by refining the shapes, and adding texture and detail using chasing tools from the front side of the metal.

Details

  • Skill Level: Beginning to intermediate.
  • Registration close date: March 13, 2024

Details

A $15 materials fee, included in the cost of the class, covers most of what you'll need. 

You should bring:

  • Towels for drying metal and hands
  • Ball point pen, notebook, Ultra Fine Point Sharpie or other pen that writes on metal
  • Optional: Dremel engraving tool, chasing and repoussé tools, chasing hammer, pitch bowl, heat gun

Prerequisites

This is a beginning/intermediate level class. Students must know how to saw, anneal, and file metal. They must have completed Introduction to Jewelry: Skills Class and Introduction to the Jeweler’s Torch at BARN or have equivalent experience.

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.

Instructor
Joan Hammond

Joan Hammond began working in metal in 1994, when she started taking metalsmithing classes as an antidote to documenting computer software. What she discovered was a medium that not only used her training in painting, printmaking, and ceramics, but also opened the possibilities of creating art that can be worn. Family artifacts and history, plants and animals, and the textiles and jewelry of non-Western cultures inspire her current work, which she executes using various fabrication techniques, including chasing and repoussé. Hammond exhibits locally and nationally. Her work has been published in Metalsmith magazine’s Exhibition in Print. She is a member of the Seattle Metals Guild and an active volunteer and instructor at BARN.

Related Events

Check out other events you might be interested in!

Stone Setting without Prongs and Street Gemology
Stone Setting without Prongs and Street Gemology

Learn how to bead set and flush set gemstones, make a tapered bezel, set a gemstone and explore gemstones.

April 12, 2027

Meaningful Gemstone Bracelets
Meaningful Gemstone Bracelets

Explore the potential healing properties of gemstones and choose stones for personalized bracelets to keep or gift.

December 04, 2026

Pearl and Gemstone Knotting
Pearl and Gemstone Knotting

Learn pearl knotting techniques and walk out with a new pearl necklace for yourself or to give as a gift.

December 04, 2026

-*