AliRae Aguirre

About

I've always admired illustration. I devoured children's books, picking and choosing by the covers. I loved the stories, but I absolutely adored the pictures. As an artist, my love of children's illustration comes through in my work. I like defining lines, blocking colors, and telling a story--even if it's only a snapshot. 

I love everything secret, weird, delightful, and fanciful. Animals, plants, and objects dance through my head--tendrils of ivy, bunches of flowers, a lone bear, a rose fairy, a sarcastic fox--they all have something to say to me. My joy is in helping them say it.

I graduated in 2012 from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts with a bachelor's degree in Art, focusing in Drawing and Painting. Besides various personal commissions, I showed and sold my art as a member of the Red Raven Gallery in Salem, OR in 2013. I currently live in Portland, OR.

Visit me at my tumblr: http://aliraeaguirre.tumblr.com/

AliRae Aguirre is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer inspired by vintage patterns, folk crafts, and old-fashioned hand lettering. She loves everything secret, flowery, and fanciful! She attended the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Clients include: St. Martin’s Press, Neon Squid Books, mindbodygreen, Givingli, Portland Trail Blazers, and more.

Open for commissions and art licensing.

Contact her at: aliraeaguirre@gmail.com

Check out her Society6 Shop for print-on-demand goods and her Spoonflower shop for patterned fabric, wallpaper, and other home goods featuring her designs (links at the top).

See what’s new on her Instagram page: @aliraeaguirre