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The Art Of Alaina Jane Salgado Illustration And Graphic Design

photo provided In her studio, artist and graphic designer Alaina Salgado.

photo by Alaina Jane Salgado Edward Gorey pen sketch, 2013.

Tuesday August 20, 2013

Alaina like many other artists simply does not remember a time when art was not a part of her being. “I didn’t really decide per se it was a gift,” shared the Vermont artist. “It was just there in me at a very young age. I have a higher power to thank for that. I do remember my kindergarten teacher took notice and at the end of the school year, unbeknownst to any other students in my class, my mother at hand, she let me have a whole set of colored markers that had been used during the school year to take home. I was very excited and grateful.”

Alaina is originally from Burlington and spent her youth between Chittenden County and Vergennes. Alaina feels linked to the natural beauty of the state and grew up sketching and doing pencil portraits of friends and neighbors. Salgado was drawn back here after graduating Magna Cum Laude from the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia, because of family and feels lucky to live in a place where close-knit communities and open and free thinking people blend to create a unique way of life. “If I break down on my way through Weybridge,” reflected Salgado, “I have friends in the area that would come to my rescue without hesitation.”

Working in whatever medium her inspiration requires, Alaina feels most comfortable in pencil, pen, ink, guache, oils and acrylics. A graphic designer by trade she works on a MAC platform. She is inspired by American illustrators Michael Hague, Leo and Diane Dillon, Edward Gorey and Vermonter Norman Rockwell and sees potential beauty in everything around her and deeply feels that, “art is always a journey and I never stop learning.” “My illustrations have been published in Vermont Magazine, I have done pro bono work in the past for the “Addison County Humane Society”, now”Homeward Bound” & the Bixby Memorial Free Library,” shared Alaina. “I was a finalist for the 2011 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival‘s “Bitches Brew Revisited” album cover contest which was re-imagining the album cover of “Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew”. My work was displayed at the Flynn Theater’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery; I designed the new 2012 Bixby Memorial Free Library card. I do free-lance graphic design work too. I specialize in Portraits and Caricatures.” The Valley Voice invites all its readers to check out her website: www.alaina.info or email her at [email protected].

It is safe to say the path was clear for this young Vermont artist even at a young age. Sharing a memory from childhood Alaina remarked, “I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and I wasn’t giving the teacher my undivided attention when she was talking and I got yelled at while I was drawing the Beatles yellow submarine on a fairly small piece of paper. It came out pretty good!” The Valley Voice salutes all of the artists and artisans who call the Green Mountains their home. Their talents are truly inspiring and their presence enriches the lives of all.

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