About the Artist

Asher Machado is a Massachusetts based artist. He paints with watercolors and acrylics. He specializes in mostly animals with some landscapes and portraits. His most common request is pet portraits. He's also drawn a few tattoos.

At eighteen years old, Machado has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He has been seriously painting since freshman year of high school. Junior year he did a Teen Artist Internship Program through the local art museum. He worked four hours every week for several months, working with a local artist. His medium of choice was watercolor, and at the end of the program he had fallen in love with the medium. He and his mentor painted their own massive self portraits, which were displayed in the New Bedford Art Museum.