Finally.

I present the Goddess of Bad Weather.

This is a tribute/appeasement piece in hopes she will leave me alone. She hit my house with lightning destroying my t.v. and other appliances. She then dropped a tree on my house with a tornado, then a few months later used Hurricane Rita to take out a couple of fences and do further damage to my walls and roof and tearing down the temporary repairs I'd added after the tornado. Once she tore off the temporary roof, she dropped several inches of rain into my bedroom and living room. This year she has subjected my area to historical records of rainfall.
She remained difficult through the creation of this piece. It started as a full figure piece, but that wasn't working and I was getting tired and frustrated with it. She has had different costumes, including various types of armor, none of which I could get to come out to my satisfaction. Her sword went from a saber as on the stock photo to a more fantastical weapon, even to the sword of Gryffindor from the Harry Potter movies, and finally back to a saber as nothing I tried came out very well. Her jewelry was initially more elaborate and involved necklaces and head pieces, but they didn't work out either. I didn't want to work on anything else until I completed this piece, and thus didn't work on anything at all for a long while. Plus I had just switched from PhotoshopLE (an ancient scaled down version of Photoshop) to Photoshop CS which involved a surprisingly long learning curve.

Enough of the trials and tribulations. This piece was painted in Photoshop CS using the airbrush and anything else I could get to work. I also used a Wacom Graphire4 tablet.

Reference for the Goddess was [link] from the stock of the beautiful .

Her hair and lightning earring reference was from .

The lightning is from a brush made by .

Critique is always appreciated, for use with future work. I very seriously doubt I will ever revisit this particular picture again.