After working as an illustrator in advertising. Hugo realized his life-long dream in 1989, when he decided to leave commercial art to become a full-time automotive fine artist and founded AIR ARTS, INC. Working in acrylic and watercolors sprayed through the airbrush, Hugo also uses technical pens to bring sharp detail to the final painting. His original paintings usually take anywhere from three months to a year to complete. The '1931 Duesenberg' and the 'Last Corvette Dale Raced', in honor of Dale Earnhardt, took a year to complete at a cost of $20,000 each.

His work has been seen in MOTORWEEK, and his prints have been sold on TV on QVC and auctioned by 'The World Leader of Collector Cars Auctioneers' KRUSE INTERNATIONAL. He has also been showcased in top magazines like CORVETTE FEVER, CORVETTE QUARTERLY, VETTE MAGAZINE, HOT ROD, HEMMINGS MOTORNEWS, OLD CRAS WEEKLY, DECOR and ART BUSINESS NEWS. Hugo's prints have been distributed and collected worldwide.

Renowned automotive fine artist Hugo Prado is now publishing is own art in house!. All the prints are of Archival quality both on the 8 color printing and the framing. The colors are faithfully reproduced and all the prints come with a numbered certificate of authenticity and are a limited edition of 500 Giclees for each image. They are published on Archival "Hahnemuhle" 308 gm. Photo Rag Watercolor Fine Art Paper. The image sizes are 18" x 24" with a 2" white border which makes the total size of the unframed print 22" x 28".