Since I was very little I started drawing and painting. First I painted just for fun, then I started enjoying it and finally I found out that it relaxed me, and I could not pass a week without the sacred time in my painting class!

Because I’ve started so early having painting classes (I was 10 years old!), I started with the basic techniques: first graphite, then coloured pencil, then gouache and also some drawing with china ink. Only after 8 years of basic drawing and colouring, I started with watercolour!

Watercolour is my passion, although people tend to say that it is a minor technique, because the great painters use it do sketch their big oil paintings…

I don’t think so! It is much more difficult, given you cannot make a mistake and then correct it! Instead, you have to use the water as your ally, and take part of it… 

It is amazing what a watercolour can become!

Some years later I’ve moved to another town and I could no longer continue to practice with my teacher. So, and because my watercolour technique was already stable and I already had a style defined, I decided to try other techniques: acrylic and oil.

I started the acrylic first, but I just could not like it! It is very versatile and dries fast, but the result is not brilliant, and I just feel like a child, colouring previously defined blank spaces, marked with a number!

So I tried oil, and I’m now exploring this technique :) Everyone told me that it was terrible to clean the brushes, and that it would take so much time that there would be just a few time left to paint! But the technique is so brilliant!, and the paintings have a life of their own, so I’m really enjoying this!