Lecture - Saturday 29th September 2012

John Gaylor started the heraldic year very well for us with a stimulating talk on “Armory and Computer Aided Drawing“. John's rapid pictorial responses to questions on the Forum have long impressed us and he explained he had arrived at being what he humbly describes as an heraldic "draftsman" by way of Autocad software he had previously used in business as a cartographer. He made no claims to competition with brush-and-pencil artists but he did show us many ways in which the computer artist can experiment with proportions and styles and can do so quickly and economically. Indeed some heraldic artists try out their ideas first in computer graphics before putting brush or pen to parchment.

Our youngest member

Our youngest member, Julian Tristan Zrenner from Germany sends us the enclosed snap of the Arms of Castille and Leon on board the full-scale galleon which was built for the film "Pirates" of Roman Polanski in a shipyard in the village of Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia, adjacent to the Tarak Ben Ammar Studios. An accurate replica above the waterline, but sporting a steel hull and a 400 HP auxiliary engine, the "Neptune" was and still is entered into the Tunisian naval register and is currently a tourist attraction in the port of Genoa where Julian Tristan photographed it.

 

Arms of Brian Lambie

Brian  Lambie M.B.E., F.S.A. SCOT. and Churchill  Fellow.
      Date of matriculation 3rd June 1976.

Archbishop Tartaglia

The new archbishop of Glasgow, Most Rev. Philip Tartaglia, will be enthroned tomorrow, Our Lady's Birthday, at St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral, Glasgow.

I have had a go at cobbling together the revised version of his Grace's Arms - the bezants should actually be "barley loaves" in line with the parable of the loaves and the fishes. The arms were designed by Monsignor Charlie Burns, who is a Canon of St Peter's Basilica. I like the Glaswegian fish with the ring in its mouth.

Members' Countries September 2012

Salvete

We welcome five new members to the Society:
Ms R. Kent from Smyrna, Georgia, USA,
Dr R Devine from Fort Worth, Texas.
Lt Col. I. Shepherd from Edinburgh,
Mr D. Bellamy of Newark, Notts.

We are especially delighted to welcome a new Junior Member - Julian Tristan Zrenner from Bavaria.

We do not have a lot going on for younger members in the HSS so I propose to start an online newsletter directed at a younger age-group but which might also be useful for people who have just discovered an interest in Heraldry. All contributions welcomed!

Salve

Ms R. Kent, New York.