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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 22: Mandarin

Azure, above a base chevronny Sable and Argent, a peacock passant wings displayed Argent armed Or, in canton a bezant.

#Heraldecember2025 #heraldry

22.12.2025 13:28 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

2/ ...towards the end of 2025 caused a halt in the workings of most of the parliamentary institutions meaning they will likely be granted some time at the start of 2026.

25.12.2025 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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1/ An overview of the coats of arms and flags I designed for Czech municipalities and which were also granted in the year. Technically there should be two more but those haven't been granted yet. While they have received expert pre-approval, the Czech parliamentary elections...

25.12.2025 19:07 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025: Day 7 - Cinnamon

Argent, within a tressure soutached Gules, a cinnamon tree branch of the same.

#heraldecember2025 #heraldry

07.12.2025 12:03 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The first week of Heraldecember 2025

#heraldecember2025 #heraldecember

07.12.2025 14:16 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 7 prompt - Cinnamon

"Cinnamon-mon!"

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

07.12.2025 02:49 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 6 prompt - Fate

“Fate tied a red string between us, which is cute, until I trip over it in public.”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

06.12.2025 22:47 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 6: Fate

Impaled: The first Azure, a distaff Or with fibre Argent. The second Argent, a drop spindle Sable with string Gules. The third Sable, a pair of scissors Argent cutting string Or.

#heraldecember2025 #heraldry

06.12.2025 11:36 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 4 prompt - Passing

“Arsenal’s newest signing, Triskelion wearing number four, is absolutely dancing through the defense, they can’t lay a finger on him!”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

06.12.2025 19:32 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 5 prompt - Journey

“A salmon’s journey upstream: going out with a splash.”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

06.12.2025 19:32 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Got a bit carried away. There are two paintings today. First is Sable, a Pissant passant proper fimbriated argent. More simply, a black shield with an ant on it, the ant is coloured normally and has a white edge all round it. 'Passant' in heraldry refers to a beast in a walking pose, side-on, and is of course also French for 'passing'. 

The second shield is black-ish, with two white hands, one passing a golden baton to the other -  proof, if any were needed, that hands are difficult (but who is that mysterious person being passed the baton?). yes i know the hand receiving should be a *right* hand and not a left hand for it to make sense.

Got a bit carried away. There are two paintings today. First is Sable, a Pissant passant proper fimbriated argent. More simply, a black shield with an ant on it, the ant is coloured normally and has a white edge all round it. 'Passant' in heraldry refers to a beast in a walking pose, side-on, and is of course also French for 'passing'. The second shield is black-ish, with two white hands, one passing a golden baton to the other - proof, if any were needed, that hands are difficult (but who is that mysterious person being passed the baton?). yes i know the hand receiving should be a *right* hand and not a left hand for it to make sense.

4. Passing

#Heraldecember2025 #heraldry

(A second day of bonus shield!)

04.12.2025 21:41 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Oh damn it, you did what I was planning to do :D Pissant passant. Well, now I have to think up another idea....

04.12.2025 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very cool emblazonment style! With every new arms I see, I'm more determined to commission you for an emblazonment one day!

04.12.2025 20:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My third entry for the #Heraldecember !

2025 - Day 3 : "Cavalry"
with the Allfather of the Silent Silphe

I think that we will go for the "one day delay" from now on XD

#heraldecember2025 #art #medieval #fantasy #coatofarms #heraldry #blason #artistsofbluesky

04.12.2025 20:10 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
A heraldic crest drawn in ink and copic markers, set at an angle with a white chess piece king's crown set above it. The shield is checkered in black and red, and has two white chess knights facing each other. A motto scroll curls in a circle around and behind the crown, reading FUMUS ANTE IGNIS.

A heraldic crest drawn in ink and copic markers, set at an angle with a white chess piece king's crown set above it. The shield is checkered in black and red, and has two white chess knights facing each other. A motto scroll curls in a circle around and behind the crown, reading FUMUS ANTE IGNIS.

#Heraldecember2025 3 | Cavalry

The motto “fumus ante ignis” is my tentative Latin translation of “smoke before fire,” the phrase indicating that white starts a game of chess.

#heraldry #heraldecember

03.12.2025 19:07 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 3 prompt - Cavalry

"Sir, their cavalry are charging our infantry!"
"Very well, Captain, sound a... countercharge."

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

04.12.2025 02:03 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

If you're feeling brave, try to blazon it. It doesn't bite... much.

02.12.2025 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 2 prompt - Feast
Depicted below: an average Czech on St. Martin's day. Poor goose...
Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
#heraldecember2025

02.12.2025 15:06 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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2. Feast #heraldecember2025 #heraldry #art

02.12.2025 05:53 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Love it!

02.12.2025 06:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Preach! 🙏 The save function is your best friend!

01.12.2025 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Treat it as a low-stakes way of learning the programme! It'll be worth it in the long run :) I've been using it for nearly ten years and I learned some new things today while working on my entry too!

01.12.2025 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And once again - now for the fifth time - we kick off a new edition of #Heraldecember!

This year's prompts are inspired by various famous novels from around the globe. (More info below...)

#heraldry #heraldecember2025 #artprompt #promptlist #artchallenge

30.11.2025 21:37 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

"Gules, three bezants voided Or"

01.12.2025 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Style inspired by the Coffee Hag album.

01.12.2025 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 1 prompt - Counterfeit
Can't say if I'll have time, energy or inspiration to do all of the prompts (knowing myself, that's a no), but here's a little something. "Bezants voided" are sometimes refered to as "false roundels". #heraldecember2025

01.12.2025 18:48 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

4/ ..., and a choice many other Czech municipalities should take inspiration from. #heraldry #vexillology

30.11.2025 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

3/ When choosing their coat of arms, the municipality opted for something simple and striking: a golden trilobite on blue, with the flag taking the form of a banner of arms. It is a clear way of highlighting what makes the place unique...

30.11.2025 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2/ ...and major nobles. During the rule of the Schwarzenbergs, the locals took part in anti-serfdom uprisings that were brutally suppressed. Skryje is a world-class fossil site, largely thanks to the cataloguing work of the French engineer Joachim Barrande, whose name is well known in Czechia.

30.11.2025 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🧵 The fourth entry in my trilobite series comes from the municipality of Skryje. The first written mention of the village dates to 1229. Like many small Czech settlements, it changed hands repeatedly over the centuries, being traded, bought, sold, divided, reunited, and governed by various minor...

30.11.2025 15:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1