He began painting when still a child, attending the Escuela al Aire Libre de Pintura in Taxco then developing his career in Mexico City.
Taxco also gave him his first contact with painting at the Escuela al Aire Libre de Pintura, run by Japanese artist Tamaji Kitagawa.
She eventually helped him to get work at the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre in Mexico City to make ends meet.
[1] In 1942, he entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes del Libro, to study engraving with Carlos Alvarado Lang .
[1] During his life he traveled, first to Guatemala, Honduras and Peru in 1964, then to Europe (France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany and Spain) in 1979 and then to Cuba in 1980.
[4] attracting the attention of critics such as Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna, Enrique F. Gual, Margarita Nelken, Antonio Rodríguez, Raquel Tibol and Teresa del Conde.
[1][4] His writing gave him visibility through the press and in art catalogs, participating in conferences and seminars to discuss the works of his colleagues.
In 1983 he became a member of the Feria Nacional de la Plata in Guerrero to promote that state's silver smithing industry.
[1] This aesthetic sense was set in his youth, as he learned to paint as a child from Kitigawa, whose influence remained evident in Lugo's creation through his career, especially in the depictions of nature.
[1] Lugo's work was mostly on canvas, although he also did graphic art and even a natural stone mural for his house in Taxco with a mining theme.
His landscapes show influence from Eugenio Landecio, José María Velasco and Dr. Atl along with Manuel Echauri, Angelina Beloff, Luis Nishizawa and Raúl Anguiano.
In the 1940s, he began to depict scenes in the Mexico City areas, adapting what he did for landscapes of rural Guerrero to that major urban center.
During this period as well his language and techniques matured, deciding that cities have their own kind of beauty; however, he never stopped painting rural areas.