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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.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Delicate botanical illustration. Every petal of this orchid is painted with maximum attention to subtle textures.
Still life with vivid, summery colors. A refreshing piece that highlights the juiciness of the fruit.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Classic floral watercolor. The fragility and intense red of the poppy captured on 100% cotton paper.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Naturalistic illustration of a sperm whale. Deep indigo tones and organic sea textures in line wash technique.
Custom watercolor illustration.
Still life with vivid, summery colors. A refreshing piece that highlights the juiciness of the fruit.
Custom architectural watercolor capturing the essence of a traditional village house, highlighting the wrought iron and stone details.
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 will soon be available in my Etsy shop (coming soon). They will be reproductions of my own work, painted for the pleasure of it — never of a commission. What I paint for someone belongs to them: it is not reproduced, not sold to anyone else, and never ends up as a print.
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.