Edward Juarez Fine Art in downtown San Diego's Balboa Park occupies Studio 26 at the Spanish Village Art Center, where the self-taught, Latino-owned plein-air painter captures California light, architecture, and everyday scenes in oil and acrylic. The studio sits within the working-artist compound at Spanish Village Art Center, a Balboa Park landmark where visitors watch paintings develop in real time and purchase originals directly from the easel. Plein-air technique anchors the body of work — canvases painted outdoors in a single session to lock in the color temperature and shadow angles of a specific moment, a method that produces the atmospheric accuracy flat-reference studio work cannot replicate. Commissions translate a client's chosen person, place, or object into the same plein-air vocabulary, with the finished piece delivered as a signed original or as archival giclée prints scaled to specification — a format also carried by downtown galleries including Sparks Gallery in the Gaslamp Quarter. The most involved commissions are multi-canvas series depicting a single San Diego location across shifting light conditions — dawn, midday, and golden hour — requiring three separate plein-air sessions at the same vantage point.