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Guess who's done 👀 #Heraldecember2025 #heraldecember #heraldry #coatofarms #artistsofbluesky #traditionalart #emblazonment

Have an excellent 2026!

#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 8: Tender

Gules, a pelican in her piety Argent, beaked and nestled Or.

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The first week of Heraldecember 2025

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#Heraldecember 2025, day 7 prompt - Cinnamon

"Cinnamon-mon!"

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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#Heraldecember 2025: Day 4 - Passing

Argent, on a bend sinister Sable a rabbit courant of the first.

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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.

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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.
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4. Passing #heraldecember2025 #heraldry #art

#Heraldecember 2025, day 2 prompt - Feast
Depicted below: an average Czech on St. Martin's day. Poor goose...
Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 1: Counterfeit

Per pal Argent and Sable, issuant from base a man counterchanged, his face surmounted by an apple vert.

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2. Feast #heraldecember2025 #heraldry #art

#Heraldecember 2025 - Day 2: Feast

Argent, a boar Sable impaled on a bendlet Gules, in chief sinister a mullet of six of the same.

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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

Emblazonment of the coat of arms of the Isle of Man, featuring the iconic Manx triskelion of armoured legs on a red shield, supported by a peregrine falcon and a raven. Over the shield is the British imperial crown, with the island's motto "Quocunque Jeceris Stabit" (Latin for "Wherever you throw it, it shall stand") written on a scroll underneath.

Mannin #art #heraldry

Similar to the French term, aye. Issue being, that I can’t find a blazon that actually uses it unlike the term from French blazonry.

I came across this term in A dictionary of heraldry by Charles Norton Elvin. Has anyone come across it before? A similar word in the form of vilené exists in French blazonry, but has a different meaning (pizzle).

Digital drawing of an armorial achievement, ie. a shield on which there's a helmet and on it there's mantling and a torse and on the torse there's a walking duck. On the shield there's also a duck and a chief with a squiggly line.

Self emblazon in the style of Walter Leonhard.

16DEC24
Fenland District councillors, led by Dal Roy, table motion to gain official #flag recognition for #Fenland, #Cambridgeshire, aiming to unite communities; flag shows tiger for residents who opposed Fen drainage. #vexillology
Source: www.bbc.com/news/art...

For #InternationalArtistsDay I wanted to share a recent commission, and it felt particularly apt to display this one which is the first to include my own artist mark, which the patron of this piece had encouraged me to develop.

Designed for Mr Gerd Hruška.

横見梨の花
Yokomi nashi no hana
Pear blossom in profile (side view)

Second and third images provided by Lilian Cailleaud (aka Kaemon Press), author of the book Japanese Blazon.

From top to bottom, left to right: First row; Tavastia, Finland, Karelia. Second row; Finland Proper, Satakunta, Uusimaa, Lapland. Third row; Ostrobothnia, Savonia, Åland

Coats of arms of Finland and its historical provinces #art #heraldry

Another visit to Lipnice nad Sázavou for a meeting of the Subcommittee for Heraldry and Vexillology. The town's flag is an excellent way to simplify the historical arms without resorting to a banner of arms. Those are unfortunately overused, and with the overwhelming... (1/2)

Seen here in Australian skies is a special type of flag used by Scottish Clan Chiefs, known as a pinsel, which may be flown in a Chief's absence by a delegated representative.

I had the opportunity to visit another one of "my" towns. This time, it was Bernartice, whose #coatofarms and #flag I designed earlier this year. This small town holds a surprising story. The prominent feature in its coat of arms, an unfinished bridge, (1/6) #heraldry #vexillology