Stamp 3:

Stamp 3:

In the background Image of the third stamp I created I decided to go with the ‘Christ the redeemer’ statue that looks over the city of Rio de Jannerio, as this is not only a well-known statue in brazil, this statue is known all over the world, as it is very famous it would make it clear that all the stamps were related in such ways as architecture, inventions, events and animals as all of them are relating to the county of brazil, or the city of Rio de Jannerio, also I found that this tied together with the biggest religion inside of Rio de Jannerio, which is Christianity, as I found out this fact I wanted to incorporate this further into my stamp. I thought I could do this by adding a cross to it, As I realise a cross symbolizes many things to many religions, but I thought that never the less it would be a good symbol to represent many cultures and show the diversity within the city. Even though this was not what I planned, I used the shape of the statue of Christ to stand within the cross, I did this because I thought it would give the image more depth and would keep my stamp from looking cluttered without removing the features I wanted to be in it. As tourism will be at large when the Rio Olympics start, there will be a variety of people visiting from all over the world, each supporting their own religion and the statue of Christ on the stamp will not be to everyone’s specific religion or beliefs, it is a trade mark of Rio and symbolises the whole country of Brazil. The other link to Brazil within the stamp was the ball in which is located on the right hand corner, football is by far the number 1 Brazilian sport. Every single Brazilian, even if they´re not real fans, picks a team to support and watches the national team playing the World Cup every four years. This passion created many expressions such as "the soccer country" or "every Brazilian was born to play football". As people all over the world recognise Brazil for having a love of football, I thought this would be a good thing to put on my stamp as the fifa world cup is being held in Brazil in 2014. As you can see by looking at the stamp I created, there is a snake wrapped around the statue, I did this because it thought that it would tie the ideas together, getting football, religion and animals, all relating to brazil on one stamp, this snake is a native bread of a Brazilian snake which I traced from an image I found on the internet, as I tried to use my own image, the snake was in the wrong position to be wrapped around the statue so I had to improvise and find a picture in which the snake was in the right position, also as the snake is also incorporated within my image around the statue, it makes my stamp a lot more flowing and crated a visible link between most of my stamps. As with the other stamps I have created I needed to make the Image black and white to layer the section of the flag over the top of it. To do this I had to reshape the copied shapes from the other two stamps getting them in the right position so all the stamps would match up correctly.