I paint custom watercolors by hand using the line wash technique from Valencia, Spain. Every commission is a painted conversation.
A selection of recent commissions: portraits, pets, landscapes, botanical, urban sketching and scenes. Click any piece to see it larger.
None of the watercolors you see above came from a template. Each one started with a message — a photo, a half-formed idea, an "I don't know if this can be painted" — and ended up as a piece that exists only once, with the line wash technique as the common thread: ink that draws the structure, and watercolor that gives it the light.
You'll see portraits, pets, Valencia landscapes, botanical scenes and some urban sketching — different genres, but the same way of working behind all of them: pencil underdrawing, then ink, then color, on 100% cotton watercolor paper, and no two brushstrokes alike. You can read more about how I work and what materials I use if you'd like to know the full process.
A custom commission is one of a kind: it grows out of your own reference photo and the time I spend on that single piece alone, deciding what to tell with the ink and what to let the water resolve. No one else will ever have that exact brushstroke, that exact captured gesture — it's the difference between "a nice watercolor" and "my watercolor".
If a custom commission doesn't fit your budget or timeline right now, prints of my work will soon be available in my Etsy shop (coming soon).
If what you see here has convinced you, here's how a commission works step by step — process, timelines and pricing by series, no surprises.
“I commissioned a scene of my boat at the harbor, where I've been going out to fish my whole life, and I didn't expect seeing it in watercolor would move me so much. It arrived perfectly protected and it's exactly where I imagined it, in our entryway. Every time I walk past it I remember why I commissioned it.”José Ramírez, fisherman, custom scene commission
Every commission is different — tell me your idea and let's paint it together.
