Bang banging away....Repousse.

As pitch is nasty stuff and not very green at all, i tried different ways of using the idea of repousse.  My intention here was to create the intaglio effect without using a pitch bowl. I tried a stamp system to create the larger more protruding veins and then chased on a scrap piece of pine wood for the more delicate veins. 

 It sort of worked but my silver kept buckling, as there was nothing to support it.