Stamp 1:

Stamp 1:

In my first stamp I chose to create an image trace of the ‘Centro Candido Mendes’ building and use it for my background, I chose this particular building because It is one of the most famous pieces of architecture in the city of Rio De Jannerio. I think this was a good image to use as my background because I can easily incorporate other aspects of my assessment over the top creating a layered effect but not making my work seemed cluttered or disorganised. The aspects I added on to my work included a hand drawn heart, I took me a while to get to this decision because I was unsure whether to use a picture of a mechanical heart (an invention created in 2000 by the Institute Dante Pazzanese of Cardiology) or just imply that fact by drawing a heart. I chose to draw the heart to keep the cartoon like feel to all my stamps, but also keeping the invention of the mechanical heart incorporated within my work. The hand-drawn image of the aeroplane in my work was because of a particular sort of well-known plane that was invented by a Brazilian man called Alberto Santos, I thought I would carry on the inventors theme rather than change because I thought I would create a more flowing idea through all my stamps, and linking them together. Finally i placed a quarter of the Brazilian play on two of my work, to do this I found that I had to make all my work black and white so it did not contrast, I chose to do this because it would  create a clear and visible link between each stamp and it would re-emphasize my links to brazil. I decided to put a lense flare in my work upon the body of the aeroplane because it would relate to the illustrator artist Pablo Jeffer de Silva work, as he is well-known for adding lense flares into his designs.