[Ponte Alto] Heraldry, when you can't draw

[Kevin Maxson]

Sorry... I knew I'd be misinterpreted - entirely my fault. 
I was being fair to CorelDraw, not to the artist!  :-D

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:07:45 -0500
>From: corun at medievalist.org  
>Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Heraldry, when you can't draw  
>To: The Barony of Ponte Alto <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
>
>Kevin wrote:
>
>>To be fair, lots of us use CorelDraw to do heraldry.  But I
>>didn't draw that version of my arms on-line, and Giuliana's
>>arms are wrong.
>>
>>And Elizabeth MacAlester's are simply rendered wrong.
>
>Master Kevin,
>
>I wasn't trying to be unfair to anyone, I simply wanted to
point out that I 
>could help the fellow by virtue of having been drawing
heraldry on the 
>computer (CorelDraw notwithstanding) for many years now. My
apologies if 
>you thought I was being unfair to the other artists who
submitted work to 
>the Ponte Alto pages (none of the submitter's names are
listed so I could 
>only credit myself, not knowing who did the rest). And to
continue to be 
>fair, I didn't do the drawings of your, Giuliana or
Elizabeth's arms. I 
>would be happy to supply corrected armoury though.
>
>In the interests of accuracy the arms I drew are as follows;
>
>Main Page - Ponte Alto arms and augmentation (used as a
crest at the 
>request of Master Niall McKennet, founding Baron)
>
>Page 1 - Mistress Allasondrea da Fano, Lady Alesia la Sabia
de Murcia, Lady 
>Anastasia di Frienze, Sir Andrew Grey, Mistress Anne of
Carthew, Dame 
>Caitlyn o Duirnin, Lady Celia of Rosedale, My own, Baroness
Denise 
>Duvalier, Baron Donald MacGregor
>
>Page 2 - Lady Feline von Behren, Mistress Gwendolen ferch
Cadwaladr ap 
>Rhys, Count Havordh Ættarbani, Mistress Keilyn FitzWarin,
Earl Laeghaire o 
>Laverty, Earl Mika Longbow
>
>Page 3 - Master Niall McKennet, Lord Patrick Ravensclaw,
Baron Ranulf of 
>Waterford, Lady Sorcha de Glys, Mistress Teleri Talgellweg,
Master Tirloch 
>of Tallaght, Mistress Ursula d'Arcy, Dame Winifred Corbet
de Wynterwood, 
>Duchess Ysabeau Cameron
>
>Some of the charges I drew up from scratch, others are
whole clipart, still 
>others are altered or modified clipart. The rest of the
arms on these pages 
>were submitted by others. I know not who.
>
>Corun
>
>
>
>
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