Chesterfield College Fashion Show 2013

Yesterday, we went as a class to view this years fashion show in the heart space which had been built up to form a stage. I've never had a particular interest in fashion but I could easily appreciate the hard work and effort gone into making each garment.
I think all of the pieces shown really represented a good interpretation of the brief name or their own negotiated brief. One of my favourite sections of the fashion show was the 'living dolls' where all the garments had been created using paper, I think they designed some very interesting pieces and worked well with the materials.
The show looked professional In both the sense of the environment that had been made and the models themselves.
The only negative issue I could say about the show was that I left with rather a bad headache due to the music being so loud!

Monoprinting

Over the weekend I have done a series of monoprints for my chesterfield projects, mostly based around two photos in particular that I have taken of chesterfield; one of the church windows and the other of a building in the shambles. I chose these two because they have strong, clean lines which would make it easier to use for monoprinting.
I set up my printing area, using a sheet of acetate as my plate and rolling out a black water based ink onto it. I found it quite hard to get the thickness of the ink correct and so some of my images have appeared to be soaked in ink and don't show a clear image. However, after trial and error, I managed to the get the correct consistency and placed a sheet of paper onto the ink to remove any excess before printing.
I used brown paper and card to create my monoprints and a pencil to draw the design onto the paper. I also used the end of a paint brush to rub onto the paper in order to show the dark areas rather than simply the outline.

I am pleased with most of my mono prints, however, some didn't work as well because too much ink was applied which distorted the images slightly. I want to use these monoprints in my project as part of a collage or painted piece.