Silhouette?

 
Dale Challener Roe
 
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Dale Challener Roe
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13 June 2008 13:31
 

I’m playing with a design that includes a stylized reflection…or at least might include.  This isn’t the art I’m using (I’m actually using a tree), but it will work to illustrate my question.

Concerning only the sinister half of each image, the first image would be azure a lion rampant argent, but what if I was going for something more like the second image?  An online search found the term silhouetted, but the two sites that included the term also indicated it wasn’t the correct term (but of course neglected to include the correct term).

 

Is there a term for this?  Or would this fall under something in the artist’s discretion?  Or is this simply a bad idea, and I should stick with leaving the charge as Argent with detail lines?

 

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Michael F. McCartney
 
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Michael F. McCartney
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13 June 2008 15:56
 

IMO its artistic license, & the two lions should both be in the same style—i.e. either both, or neither, with the detailing.