A. Making coloured papers.
The papers I have coloured for this exercise are cartridge and tissue papers .
I have used Brusho water colour, another water colour (cannot remember the name) and Kemtex Transfer Dye.
The reason why I used the Kemtex Dye was that with this Dye I chould get a very dark blue colour.
Fig.1. Coloured papers.
B. Printing onto Coloured Papers.
It was hard to select just one cross shape or part of a cross shape, so I made 5 different stamp shapes.
I wanted to test different stamp materials and also see how the different shapes appeared when stamped.
Fig. 2.
Stamps made from one eraser and some
other rather soft carving material.
Fig. 3. 
Fig. 4.
Cut out shapes from soft sponge material with glue on the back.
The shapes are placed on the sides of an acrylic “stamp block”.
Below ( Fig. 5 – 7) are printing tests with the different stamps.
Fig. 5. 
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Fig 7.
Below are some of my attempts to stamp on my painted papers. I think that the asymmetrical crosses ( half fork crosses)
looks more interesting than the symmetrical crosses. Though the Patriarchal cross is symmetrical I think it hassome potential
for making a design.
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Fig. 10
Half fork crosses More half fork crosses Simple crosses and Patriarchal crosses
C. Cross shapes from coloured papers.
With the orange tissue paper as a background and the two blue painted paper, the papers with most contrast,
I have used some of the shapes from my research of crosses to make this sample.
Fig. 11.
Collage of sampled cross shapes.
Fig. 9. 
