Ronny Andersen has a very nice website: http://www.arsheraldica.dk/index_english.html. I’d love to commission work from him but my list of commissions is starting to overflow!
eploy;60245 wrote:
Ronny Andersen has a very nice website: http://www.arsheraldica.dk/index_english.html. I’d love to commission work from him but my list of commissions is starting to overflow!
I wish I knew where to get a blazon for the Ikast-Brande arms. It certainly would have fallen under the "clever piles" thread.
He definately does incredible work. I hope to someday commission him for a rendering of my arms. Need to gather some cash thou…with the Dollar not being worth much it makes it a bit difficult.
Someday thou!
Thank you all for your kind words; I am sorry that the English version of my web site is not completed, but I am no wizard when it comes to web design!
Regarding the blazon of Ikast-Brande, I have the blazon in Danish; a rough translation would be:
Gyronny of ten Argent and Gules, on the larger gyron in sinister chief a flame Or
I would love to see other suggestions!
/Ronny
Thanks for the heads up. I especially like Andersen’s municipal arms.
I just saw Ronny’s photograph on the website and he is a young man! Some how in my mind I have envisioned for some time that the Heraldic Artist to the Queen of Denmark was an old man with grey hair and not a fresh faced youth, young enough to be my son! What a surprise for me. Very attractively designed website by the way.
However old you are, as I have said elsewhere, Mr. Andersen, you are very gifted and do beautiful work.
Regarding the blazon for Ikast-Brande, I am not sure what to call it, but I don’t think it would be gyronny of 10. For gyronny, all the gyrons should be equal, and most often, two of the divisions would be fesswise.
It seems more like a shifted gyronny of twelve (I am not sure what the appropriate heraldic term would be), with one of the gyrons Argent replaced by a flame Or issuant from fess point.
I must admit that I as born i 1979 will be a mere 29 later this year. So I will have many years to improve my skills and try to live up to the masters of heraldic art.
Regarding the blazon of Ikast-Brande, the one I gave was a direct translation of the official blazon in Danish, but the one by David Cohen seems more appropriate.
/Ronny
Ronny Andersen;60294 wrote:
I must admit that I as born i 1979 will be a mere 29 later this year. So I will have many years to improve my skills and try to live up to the masters of heraldic art.
Your youth is a blessing! So many great masters are already quite old and many have sadly passed away (e.g., Richard Crossett, Margaret Wood, Dennis Ivall). It is nice to know that heraldry can still attract fresh talent such as yours. You have a lifetime to perfect your already formidable skills. My only concern is that I can commission you soon without angering my wife….. 
Well, then I´ll just have to paint a little something for her as well, won’t I?
Ronny
Ronny Andersen;60309 wrote:
Well, then I´ll just have to paint a little something for her as well, won’t I?
A brilliant answer! hahahahahahahah!
Some more examples of Ronny Andersen’s works can be seen at:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/lotte52/justM/CPM/McoatofarmsHA.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/lotte52/justM/CPM/HeraldryAusJD.jpg
Linking the images directly:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/lotte52/justM/CPM/McoatofarmsHA.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/lotte52/justM/CPM/HeraldryAusJD.jpg
By way of explanation, the first image shows the marital arms of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, nee Mary Donaldson. The dexter escutcheon shows the royal arms of Denmark (representing her husband Crown Prince Frederik) and the sinister her personal arms, the two united under the crown prince’s coronet.
The second is the arms created for her father, Dr. John Dalgleish Donaldson, professor of mathematics at the University of Tasmania, in connection with his appointment to one of the royal Danish orders (Dannebrog, I believe).
In Scottish style, the arms derive from the stem arms of MacDonald, differenced by the addition of the chief. The seven pointed stars represent the Donaldsons’ Australian nationality.
Thanks for that Joseph.
I still haven’t quite figured out how to insert pictures. Do you simply hit the insert image icon and then add the URL for the relevant picture? What if the picture is part of a larger page, how then would you select just the target picture?
Right click on the picture you want to post, and you will get a list of options including "properties." When you click "properties" a window will open with "address/URL." An image address should normally be in the form *.gif, *.jpg, or *.png. If you then copy that into the window for the "insert image" icon, it should make the image appear in your message.
Cool. I’ll try it next time. :D
