Bend sinister

There is a series of nine coats of arms in the ballroom of the castle:

• Or, three Fleurs de lis Azure.
• Azure, a Bendsinister Or.
• Or, a Fleur de lis Azure.
• Azure, a Cross Or.
• Or, five Fleur de lis Azure in saltire.
• Azure, a Fess Or.
• Or, two Fleur de lis Azure in bend.
• Azure, a Saltire Or.
• Or, four Fleur de lis Azure.

There are so many Fleurs de lis that everyone, except the joker, calls it the «fleurdelisée» room. Nobody knows the reason why the joker says there is none, do you?

Think before you move the cursor or click on the following link and see the solution.

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Categories: Riddle, Or, Azure, Fleur de lis, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Bend sinister, Cross, Fess and Saltire.

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Categories: Riddle solution, Ogee, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Or, Azure, Fleur de lis, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Bend sinister, Cross, Fess and Saltire.

Quarterly: 1 Azure, a cross Or; 2 Vert, a saltire Or; 3 Vert, a bend sinister Or; 4 Azure, a fess Or.

Escudo cuartelado: 1^o de azur, una cruz de oro; 2^o de sinople, un sotuer de oro; 3^o de sinople, una barra de oro; 4^o de azur, una faja de oro.

Imaginary coat of arms that I have created featuring: a semicircular external shape; a field enamelled with flat azure and green inks; all pieces in metal Or, outlined in Sable and illuminated; and the entire design finished with a watercolor effect.

This coat of arms symbolizes the fundamental area of mathematical science, whose object of study is numbers and the elementary operations that can be performed with them: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Blazon keywords: Quarterly, Azure, Vert, Or, Cross, Saltire, Bend sinister and Fess.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Watercolor.

Classification: Created, Imaginary and Coat of arms.

Imaginary bearer: Arithmetic.

By joining the points Pp at the base with Ps at the sinister and Pd at the dexter with Pj at the chief of the figure I can construct a bar more quickly.

Point Pp at the base

If b and h are the width and height of the shield and b/3 the bar width, then the angle â of the bar is the arctangent of h/b, the angle ô = 90^o-â is complementary to â, the adjacent side to ô is half the bar width, b/6, and the hypotenuse, horizontal Gules at the base, which determines the position of point Pp is equal to the adjacent side divided by the cosine of ô, that is, b/6 / cosine of ô, which can be approximated by 2b/9 with an error of 2.4%, an error that in heraldic art is admissible.

Point Pd at the dexter

The angle ê = ô = 90^o-â is complementary to â, its opposite side is also half the bar width and the hypotenuse, vertical Vert at the dexter, which determines the position of point Pd is equal to the opposite side divided by the sine of ê, that is, b/6 / sine of ê, which can be approximated by 2h/9 with an error of 2.4%.

Point Pj at the chief

The calculation of its position at the chief is equivalent to that of point Pp with the same approximation of 2b/9, horizontal Gules at the chief.

Point Ps at the sinister

The calculation of its position at the sinister is equivalent to that of point Pd and can be approximated by 2h/9, vertical Vert at the sinister.

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Blazon keywords: Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Freehand and Semi-circular.

Classification: PDF and Schema.

Bendy sinister of seven.

Escudo, tres barras.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Ogee and Freehand.

Classification: Schema.

Argent, three bendlets sinister Azure.

Escudo de plata, tres barras de azur.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Argent, Azure and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Ogee and Freehand.

Classification: Schema.

Bearer: Lauria, Roger de.

My approach to the method of drawing the bends used by the Spanish Army for the BPAC II coat of arms

Bendy sinister of seven.

Escudo, tres barras.

Note that if the classic width were used for the bends, which is 1/3 of the shield's width, then the bends would cover almost the entire field.

The vertical axis of symmetry has been extended above the chief and below the base, and has been divided into segments of 1/4 of the shield's height, «h» in the diagram that illustrates this article. At the ends of these segments, parallel lines have been drawn to the bend sinister diagonal of the shield. Since the shield has a 5x6 proportion, the angle of inclination of these diagonals is 50.2^o..

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Semi-circular and Freehand.

Classification: Schema and Military.

Bearer: BPAC II.

Azure, a bend sinister raguly between, in dexter chief, a Celtic cross, in sinister base, a sword point downwards Argent.

Escudo de azur, una barra ecotada acompañada, en la diestra del jefe, de una cruz celta y, en la siniestra de la punta, de una espada bajada todo de plata.

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Blazon keywords: One, Bend sinister, Raguly, Between, Dexter, Chief, Celtic cross, Sinister, Base (lower 1/3), Sword, Point downwards and Argent.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Semi-circular and Plain tincture.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Reyes, Elijah.

Depending on the author, the counter-cottise is the bar diminished to 1/2 or 1/3 of its width.

Counter-cottise 1/2 of the bar width

If b is the shield width, b/3 that of the bar, then that of the counter-cottise is 1/2 x b/3 = b/6. On a bar I can draw the vertical V1-V2 and divide it by Thales into 4 segments, assigning the 2 central ones to the counter-cottise with sides parallel to the bar. The width of each segment is 1/4 x b/3 = b/12 and the 2 central ones sum b/12 + b/12 = b/6.

Counter-cottise 1/3 of the bar width

If the diminution is to be 1/3 of the bar width, then the counter-cottise width is 1/3 x b/3 = b/9. From the same previous bar I can repeat the process, drawing on the bar the vertical line V1-V2 and dividing it by Thales, in this case, into 3 segments, assigning the central segment to the counter-cottise with sides also parallel to those of its bar.

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Blazon keywords: Bendlet sinister and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Freehand and Pointed.

Classification: PDF and Schema.

Transform the blazon «Or» into «Or, five Pommes in saltire» and the blazon «Argent» into «Argent, five Hurts in saltire» moving the pommes and hurts through both metals, without breaking the rule of tinctures.

You can change one charge by another one, but only once.

For example, if you change «Sable, a Bend Argent» by «Sable, a Pale Argent», then the Pommes can arrive to «Or» blazon. However, this is not a solution, because the Hurts cannot walk to «Argent» blazon.

Think before you move the cursor or click on the following link and see the solution.

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Categories: Riddle, Ogee, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Or, Argent, Vert, Azure, Gules, Sable, Hurt, torteau, pellet, pomme and golpe, Hurt, Pomme, In saltire, Fess, Saltire, Bend sinister, Cross, Pale and Bend.

For example, if you change «Azure, a Cross Argent» by «Azure, a Pall Argent», then the Pommes can arrive to «Or» blazon and the Hurts can arrive to «Argent» blazon. You can view both paths azure and vert in the following image.

Other solution is to change «Azure, a Cross Argent» by «Azure, a Bordure Argent».

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Categories: Riddle solution, Ogee, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Or, Argent, Vert, Azure, Gules, Sable, Hurt, torteau, pellet, pomme and golpe, Hurt, Pomme, In saltire, Fess, Saltire, Bend sinister, Cross, Pale, Bend and Pall.

Party per pale: 1 Gules, a bend sinister debruised by an inescutcheon Or charged with a bend Azure charged with five fusils palewise Argent, in base on a triangle Argent the Sacred Heart of Jesus proper [for Adriaensen]; 2 Azure, a fleur de lis Argent above a doe sejeant proper surrounded by twelve mullets in orle Or [granted by Bourbon-Parma].

G0084: the coat of arms of Heidi Garcia-Bosch-de Morales-de Sola née Adriaensen, of France, as granted by the Chief Herald of Arms of Malta and emblazoned by me for this grant. The image combines a photograph of a drawing of a doe sejeant along with her coat of arms, both painted by me. The figures, especially natural charges, are drawn by my hand. I trace them directly in black ink, without preliminary pencil sketches, using strokes as long as possible and trying not to lift the pen, with fine technical pens and without passing twice over the same line. This method produces long, flowing lines that seem to move freely around the figure, but it has one obvious disadvantage: mistakes and retracing are difficult to conceal. When something goes wrong, I usually prefer to complete the whole figure first, so that I can assess the final result and identify any difficult points that may arise towards the end of the drawing. I then draw the entire figure again on a fresh sheet of translucent tracing paper, using the previous version only as a visual guide. It is quite normal for me to repeat this process several times until I obtain a result that satisfies me. This doe is particularly characteristic of my way of drawing natural figures. Curiously, unlike its final appearance in the coat of arms and unlike my usual working orientation, I originally drew it facing the sinister side of the shield and later reversed it digitally before incorporating it into the arms. If the errors are small, however, I do not redraw the whole figure by hand. This may be the case when a line has gone slightly beyond another instead of stopping at it, when my hand has fallen a little short, or when a stroke has wandered away from where I intended it to go. In this photograph, for example, a small imperfection of this kind can be seen on the front leg close to the hoof. Once the drawing has been digitized, I correct these minor defects digitally. Curiously, this cleaning stage usually takes me longer than the original hand drawing. Contrary to what one might expect, at least in my own way of working, the manual part of the process is considerably faster than the digital one.

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Blazon keywords: Gules, Or, Argent, Azure, One, Five, Twelve, Party per pale, Bend sinister, In base, Triangle, Charged, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Heart enflamed, Heart, Enflamed, Proper, Overall, Inescutcheon, Bend, Fusil, Palewise, Doe, Sejant, Above, Fleur de lis, Surrounded, Mullet and In orle.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated and Rhombus.

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

Bearer: Garcia-Bosch-de Morales-de Sola née Adriaensen, Heidi.

Vert, a bend sinister Argent.

Escudo de sinople, una barra de plata.

Coat of arms emblazoned by me, illuminated with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a semi-circular outer contour and with a freehand finishing.

Coat of arms of the lineage Orrantia of the Basque Country emblazoned by me.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, Argent, One and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Semi-circular and Freehand.

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

Bearer: Orrantia of the Basque Country, lineage.

Proportions and angle of a bend and a bend sinister.

The proportion of a coat of arms is 5/6,

• with 5 being the base, the so-called adjacent side, b in the diagram, and
• with 6 being the height, the so-called opposite side, h in the diagram.

The tangent of the angle between the base of the shield and the diagonal of the bend is calculated as the opposite side divided by the adjacent side, that is, 6 divided by 5 which is 1.2 = 6/5.

If I wish to know the angle, I must apply the inverse function of the tangent, which is the arctangent. Therefore, the angle is arctangent(6/5) = arctangent(1.2) = 50.194^o, which in radians is 0.876, and I usually round it to 50.2^o.

The complementary angle to 50.2^o is 39.8^o (90^o - 50.2^o = 39.8^o), which is the angle formed between the diagonal of the bend sinister and the dexter side of the shield.

Depending on the artist, on his style or, in other cases, on the need to organize the space within the shield, angles of 45^o can also be used, corresponding to the diagonal angle of a square.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Bend and Bend sinister.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Zúñiga y Guzmán, Álvaro de.