Hello guys and gals! Tonight I am SO freakin' HAPPY! This painting ... I love it but... this painting took me FOREVER. LOL! Between having a crazy work/life schedule having more than an hour or two a day to sit and focus in has been nearly impossible. By the time I had time - it was time to get some sleep (I am not a very tolerable person with little to no sleep (^-^) So, this painting stretched over a week and a half. It has been driving me crazy because I have wanted to post SOMETHING - but I was worried people may loose interest if I posted more than a couple of posts on this one painting. So, I bared with it and pushed through - I finally was able to finish her tonight and I am so happy!!

I have been big on fan art lately - picking a lot of my recent subject matters in tribute to some of my favorite movies. I also really wanted to focus on strong, intelligent, powerful women. Gal Gadot did an amazing job in the recent Wonder Woman installment - I really enjoyed the movie and thought this would make a great subject for an upcoming painting. When it came to picking my next project after Hermione, I decided to paint my gal, Gal!

I did some image hunting and found a few different images through a standard "Wonder Woman" google search that I felt I could composite into an interesting final composition.

I loved the spiral architecture of Diana's people's temple and I thought the circular formations were really interesting to the very strong structural lines of the logo - and I knew I wanted to work in a hint of the logo - even though (like others) that logo kind of reminds me of WWF - HAHA! The pose I found of Diana was my favorite of all that I could find - the look in her eye is striking and dynamic - one that definitely demands attention. My favorite part of her to paint other than her face was the bodice and skirt - the colors, stark highlights, crisp lines and textures were a fun challenge.

Here is a .gif build of the painting:

Here is the final static piece!