After twenty years of experience as a commercial illustrator and 3D artist, Donna Bates, a native from Southern California, has evolved into a career in oil painting. She is known for her own mash-up style of urban, tough-chic edgy strong independent women and men or “Badasses”. Her subjects aren't pin-ups nor portraits, they are a different vision of power and sex flavored with leather, metal, graffiti, sunglasses and fantasy!