Catwoman

And last up in the collection is Catwoman.  This is the version of Catwoman from Batman The Movie, played by Lee Merriwether rather than by Julie Newmar or Eartha Kitt who both played her in the TV series.  This seemed appropriate to me as it’s only in the film version that these four villains team up together under the United Underworld banner.

The home for purple in this one was the sea and sky background.  I also blended in a couple of blues for a bit of variety both within this painting and within the while collection.  While this one started off with loads of greys in it, the longer I worked on it, the more I thought Catwoman deserved to s much black in her as possible, so the costume and the mask are entirely black and there’s a lot of black in the hair.  Maybe I was just in the mood for putting down big shapes, something that’s generally a good thing.

This one feels like the weakest in the collection, not just because of the poor likeness (I can tell you that the likeness to my mother–in–law is definitely an accident) but also because of the pose which lacks a bit of energy.  Still, just like United Underworld themselves, all four of these paintings are expected to look stronger when combined together.  Let’s see how that goes in the next post.

Catwoman, just like the rest of the team, is not up for sale on her own but is up for sale as part of the United Underworld collection.