Nice before,and nice to see it again. Good job!
if only I could have as much luck designing the parish arms i’m working on
Follow the same process. Get ideas, discuss them, discard the weaker ones, enhance the stronger ones. Have faith.
Doug Welsh;97091 wrote:
Follow the same process. Get ideas, discuss them, discard the weaker ones, enhance the stronger ones. Have faith.
tried that i’m not sure if i should base the arms off the region served or the patron saint. the patron is saint pio i’ve tried arms including the stigmata but they dont look right to me. i tried using orange blossoms to represent central florida but I cant render them to look right, current Idea is a horse of some sort to represnt Ocala, FL (the metro area served). still no ideas as too tincture.
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Friar Brett, TOR Mar
Why not five orange blossoms in saltire? The saltire is from the state flag of Florida. The orange blossoms represent the region and there are five of them because there are five wounds in the stigmata. It alludes to all of them and the arms remain clear and simple.
Cinquefoils Argent pierced Or could do double duty for orange blossoms, if desired.
gselvester;97109 wrote:
Why not five orange blossoms in saltire? The saltire is from the state flag of Florida. The orange blossoms represent the region and there are five of them because there are five wounds in the stigmata. It alludes to all of them and the arms remain clear and simple.
Sounds great to me.
Nice! If the field is Vert, it will further allude to orange blossoms on the tree. Alternatively, if the field is white or gold, the orange blossoms (or Joe’s white cinquefoils pierced Or) could be on green roundels or some other shape to suggest the leaves.
Or they could be charged on a saltire Gules (or Tenne, or I suppose Vert), mildly suggestive of the state flag; but that’s starting to get a bit more complicated, & might raise some of the same concerns discussed in the recent thread re: the Alabama (IIRC) state flag.
[edited later to include Vert in 2nd paragraph]
Orange blossoms are fairly easily stylized.
Kenneth Mansfield;97118 wrote:
Orange blossoms are fairly easily stylized.
my biggest concern here is its not very unique, and it almost looks too simple to me i dont know why but it just does
friarbrett;97207 wrote:
my biggest concern here is its not very unique, and it almost looks too simple to me i dont know why but it just does
Well, a quick google of the essentials of the English blazon turns up no similar arms: no "Vert five cinquefoils in saltire Argent," no "Vert five roses in saltire Argent." The closest are the English arms of Dismaris, in which there are roses Or, and they’re stalked and leaved. Nor in French, no Vert with "cinq roses en sautoir." Something might turn up with further digging, I suppose.
How about "Argent on a saltire Vert threeorange blossoms…"
i like the idea of the orange blossoms in saltire, but i cant help but think its missing something
friarbrett;97222 wrote:
i like the idea of the orange blossoms in saltire, but i cant help but think its missing something
If this is sitting with you as “too simple”, then perhaps:
Vert, five orange blossoms in saltire proper, on a chief Or a horse at full gallop also proper
I’m also not sure if the residents of Ocala consider their moniker “Horse Capital of the World” to be a general declaration or specific to a certain breed such as the Florida Cracker Horse; or if the blazon needs to be that specific.
Here, I think that “orange blossom” is sufficient – it’s probably unnecessary to specify by common name “sweet orange blossom” or by taxonomical name “C.sinensis”. :cool:
steven harris;97224 wrote:
If this is sitting with you as “too simple”, then perhaps:
Vert, five orange blossoms in saltire proper, on a chief Or a horse at full gallop also proper
I’m also not sure if the residents of Ocala consider their moniker “Horse Capital of the World” to be a general declaration or specific to a certain breed such as the Florida Cracker Horse; or if the blazon needs to be that specific.
Here, I think that “orange blossom” is sufficient – it’s probably unnecessary to specify by common name “sweet orange blossom” or by taxonomical name “C.sinensis”. :cool:
it is considered to be a general declaration as the general area (the several sourrounding counties) have the highest number of domestic horses per capita/per acre than any other recorded location, and you’ll find everything from clydesdales (sp?) to Arabians to Cracker Horses, just to name a few, you can have a super walmart right next to a ranch…
of course then the question becomes what would the proper tincture be for a horse?
