Donna Bates

I do and like Figurative Art! I try to create big, bold, dramatic and sexy statements, something that grabs you from across a room. I like to combine realism with graphic boldness. The series I am working on now is about women just not taking it anymore, sexy women taking there power back, in other words "Bad-Ass Chicks"

I have been on the planet a long time, so I am thinking you don't want the whole thing. Since 1991 I have been working as an Artist doing Illustration, Graphics and 3dAnimation. I created the Viper Girl and branding for the Viper Room. I taught 3d modeling at Gnomon school of VFX for three years. After being laid off my last job I pretty much decided that I was kind of over working in a 3D Pipeline and spent a couple of years doing my own animated Short. When that was done I decided it was time to get back into Oil Painting and Traditional Sculpture which is what I have been doing for the last 2.5 years and taking workshops with really great instructors to up my technical skills. I have studied with Sean Cheetham, Daniel Bilmes and David Simon. I am just starting to show some of my paintings.

I have gone to school at Cal State Fullerton, Art Center, Gnomon School of VFX and LAAFA