First Friday / RVA Fashion Alliance - Fashion is Art Gala

I had the pleasure to partner with the RVA Fashion Alliance during October's First Friday and for a RAL- Richmond Animal League benefit. With several other local artist we showcased our photography, wood sculptures, paper cut art, leather goods, clothing, and jewelry to the masses.

On October 7, 2016 we had a preview of our collections in Richmond, Virginia at the Virginia  Interactive. This was my first First Friday and even though we didn't have that many people come through I got to meet some great artist, have good conversation, enjoy music from next door, and do something different.

I love that Richmond has come to life on Fridays and that people are out an about. When I was in college in Richmond there wasn't events like First Fridays and the city wasn't very art friendly even though VCU has an art school in the area but better late than never!


First Friday Event:

WashingtonCuts

Ali Ferguson

Desman Grain

Renee Kaelber

Isabel Edmonds

Derrick Friedline

Fox and Hound event was low key also. There was an awesome band called The Folly, there was a really good MC, great raffle tickets items, and food.

Also artist M. Jiannalone

Peace,

Janelle Washington

Creative Inspiration Board

So lately, I have been creating and cutting letters of the alphabet for a future listing on Etsy. This is something that has been in my mind to do - see older post. ( Has a great link to the history of mud cloth) I finally started on it because I was able to focus on what particular patterns I wanted to create.  I love geometric patterns that include triangles, straight lines, hexagons and dots.

geometric pattern inspiration

Here is my inspiration for some of my patterns. I have a file of patterns I created while in the fashion industry that I have used as my foundation and by combining these patterns and manipulating them in Illustrator I am able to create new patterns for my letters.

Here is what I have so far:

Which one is your favorite so far?

Peace,
Janelle

Inspiration Tuesday

What gift(s) did you have when you woke up this morning?

Peace Janelle