Ironwork fun
Wed ,27/01/2010
Coat of Arms Rendering
Well this was fun, I don’t get to draw up a whimsical bit of ironwork every day, but last week I got to play around with this one. It’s for the side of a client’s barn. He thought it would be fun to have a European looking wrought iron plaque hanging off his barn’s dormer and asked me to draw up his family’s coat of arms for it.
There were several variations of the coat of arms down through the centuries. I took one of the older ones because it had the older more stylized look you’d expect to see on that sort of traditional signage. The image is a continuous piece like you would have when cutting out a silhouette from a sheet of paper. I drew it in a form our metalworker can directly (more or less) use to cut out from a sheet of steel plate with his computer driven plasma cutter.