You-get-what-you-get

The Swedish Hamiltons use the same elements as their distans relatives in Scotland. The crescent, since Swedish heraldry does not use marks of cadency, has over time been converted into a regular charge and remained with the arms for nearly…

Due to it’s symmetry, these are the kinds of arms that will always be depicted forward-facing. So I just had to paint the achievement from the side. It was a hectic piece since less than 48 hours passed between commissioning…

A fun piece to work with. After Mr Halterman got his arms granted he placed orders with a number of heraldic artists simultaneously and giving us free reign to design as we saw fit. It made for a lovely collection,…

The arms of the Polish clan Lubicz.

Gouache on sturdy A2 watercolour paper. An experiment in how far I could take my aversion for empty spaces. Quite far, it seems.