A 1996-launched black-and-grey portrait artist, Big Checho Art & Design runs a Point Loma boat-design and painting studio at 2385 Shelter Island Drive, Unit 201, with 30-plus years of photo-realism tattoo work behind the brand. The Shelter Island studio — distinct from the artist's tattoo parlor in Chula Vista — focuses on canvas paintings, boat portrait commissions, custom boat logo design, and acrylic, oil, and watercolor marine work that draws on the same maritime subject matter catalogued at Nautical History Gallery & Museum nearby at Liberty Station. Original paintings have hung in galleries from SoHo New York to street-art venues, with the artist's subject matter moving between lowrider culture, Tijuana-violence documentation, and childhood-memory imagery rendered in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. Signed and numbered limited-edition prints — 200-copy runs with matching Certificate of Authenticity and production number — let collectors acquire the photo-realism work without the custom-commission timeline, a print-market approach distinct from the artist-development focus of Prima Materia Art Institute. The most elaborate commissions are full lowrider paint programs — body work started in the artist's teenage years and returned to in 2005 with a 1970 Buick Riviera named Rivi Se7en Ceros featured in Lowrider Magazine — where a single vehicle can carry portrait murals, pinstriping, and candy-coat layers representing months of studio time.