JWBIronworks, I don't want you to take this the wrong way, and I'm sure not here to be the ironnazi. To preface my critique, you make way better leaves than I ever have, but the spatial occupation of your wall sconce could use a little bit more detail in its presence. If you put more small leaves and junctures in the space that you occupy then I personally think that it might make an even more dramatic presentation. There isn't a dang thing that I can see you did wrong, just a wee bit of disorder in the space you take. Another point that really doesn't make wheat or hay is this, if you are going to execute scrolls in immergent vine like tendrils the leaves should be a bit more broad, like a grapevine or ivy. If you want to create more forked limber junctions then the leaves might affect a more globular or spade type shape like the oak or hickory.
I want to reitterate that I'm NOT giving you any criticism of your work, you obviously have a fine hand. The composition is what I see when I look at it. From what I see in those photos, there is something spectacular looking for a place to happen.
I suppose I oughta commission a piece from you now, cause in a few years I won't be able to afford it! :wink: 8)
P.S. When I was agonizing over faults in the multiplicity of leaves I had to make for a comissioned project in my first major blacksmithing foray, my boss stopped and told me to do my best and sort through the best ones. Only God makes perfect leaves. I have to say that the name that cannot be named has a verry able subaltern now!
