Heron

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable. Crest: Upon a helm with a wreath Argent and Azure, an escallop Sable. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent.

Arms painted by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a pointed outer contour and with a rough finish.

The canting arms of the family of Paul and Kari Herndon, based on the arms of their lineage, and emblazoned by me.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between, Escallop, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Wreath, Mantling and Doubled.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable. Crest: Upon a helm with a wreath Argent and Azure, an escallop Sable. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Motto: «Sic itur ad astra».

Coat of arms depicted by me, illuminated with lights and shadows, contoured in Sable, with a pointed outer contour and with a rough finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between, Escallop, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Wreath, Mantling, Doubled and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable. Motto: «Sic itur ad astra».

Escudo de plata, una garza volante de azur, picada y membrada, acompañada de tres veneras todo de sable. Lema: «Sic itur ad astra».

Arms emblazoned by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a pointed outer contour and with a rough finish.

Canting arms of the family of Paul and Kari Herndon, based on the arms of their lineage, and emblazoned by me.

Design rationale

The name «heron» matchs with their family name is Herndon. This is why they are called canting arms, where an element in the coat of arms resembles or sounds like the name of the bearer. For the same reason, in Spanish heraldry, some García family coats of arms feature a heron, «garza» in Spanish. The motto «Sic itur ad astra» comes from Virgil's , [Virgil, P.; Century I B.C.; book IX, verse 641], where it is spoken by Apollo to Aeneas's young son Iulus, and it translates to «Thus one journeys to the stars».

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between, Escallop and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Design rationale, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable.

Canting arms of the family of Paul and Kari Herndon, based on the arms of their lineage. The image combines a photograph of a drawing of a heron volant and a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered Sable, along with his coat of arms, all painted by me.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between and Escallop.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Plain tincture, Illuminated and Pointed.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Boa, Hand-drawn, Collage and Photographic.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.

Canting arms of the family of Paul and Kari Herndon, based on the arms of their lineage, and emblazoned by me, with the blazon written in English and Castilian in a structured way to observe the parallelism between both forms.

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable.

Escudo de plata, una garza volante de azur, picada y membrada, acompañada de tres veneras todo de sable.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between and Escallop.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Leather.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Structured and parallel blazons, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.

Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered between three escallops Sable.

Escudo de plata, una garza volante de azur, picada y membrada, acompañada de tres veneras todo de sable.

Arms depicted by me, illuminated with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a pointed external shape and with a rough finishing.

Canting arms of the family of Paul and Kari Herndon, based on the arms of their lineage, and emblazoned by me. In heraldic blazoning, a tincture normally applies to all subsequent elements until another tincture is specified. This may be regarded as a kind of «backward propagation rule», whereby the final mention of a tincture is understood to qualify all the immediately preceding elements to which it can logically apply. This convention avoids unnecessary repetition, producing shorter, more concise blazons without any loss of precision. For example, the blazon «Argent, a heron volant Azure, beaked and membered Sable between three escallops Sable» already means that both the beak and the legs of the heron are Sable. Repeating the tincture «beaked Sable and membered Sable» is therefore unnecessary. In Castilian, however, I often add clarifying quantifiers such as «both» ~ «ambos de» when 2 elements share the same tincture, and «all» ~ «todo de» when there are more than 2 elements, as this generally improves readability without altering the meaning. In this case there are many elements: its beak, 2 legs, and 3 escallops.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Azure, Sable, One, Three, Heron, Volant, Beaked, Membered, Between and Escallop.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Canting, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Herndon, family of Paul and Kari.