Beautiful design and execution as always.
Here is a great study of ornamental design guys, though it may appear simple it shows real mastery. Thanks for showing it.
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A nickel silver pendant I engraved at the International Custom Cutlery Expo last weekend.
That's a very nice transition from the heavily detailed and shaded scrolls we are used to seeing. I appreciate the way you have defined the way the veins are cut with less lines, but with a bit more emphasis in strategically shaded locations...like where the veins stop and how they are redirected with heavier cuts at the leaf terminals and folds.
I'm transitioning to a less scroll as well - there is a breaking point where you finally decide that too much detail makes the work difficult to visually define. I am not abandoning a fully veined leaf in all instances, but for most gun work I think less is often more desirable.