FINE ART FIGURES

by San Francisco area figure painter Sharon Hudson

www.byhudson.com.

San Francisco figure painters fine art figures Berkeley artists California painting.
	Female figure collage.		Female figure painting.		Figure painting and collage.
San Francisco Bay area figure painter, Berkeley, California figure painters, contemporary northern California figure painters.
	Realistic male figure drawing.		Expressionist male figure collage.		Abstract male portrait collage.
San Francisco figure painters fine art figures California artists Berkeley paintings.
See the REALISTIC and EXPRESSIONISTIC FIGURES and the ABSTRACT & DECORATIVE FIGURES exhibits for the majority of my figure drawings and paintings.  More figure works can be seen in the PLAYFUL FIGURES and the OTHER FIGURES exhibits. See the PORTRAITS of MEN and the PORTRAITS of WOMEN exhibits for contemporary portraits of men and women in realistic and expressive styles. You can also see the work of other figure painters in my LINKS to other contemporary artists and galleries on my website. My Figure Art I take my inspiration as a figure painter from powerful realistic painters like Michaelangelo, and from modern sensual painters like Gauguin, Klimt, Matisse, Degas, and Van Gogh.  Then I add abstract and decorative elements inspired by crafts like contemporary quiltmaking, stained glass, mosaic, and weaving.  The sensuality, color, patterns, and textures of painting, drawing, and collage -- these are as important to me as the figure itself.  My figure art is more varied than the art of most contemporary artists: it ranges from expressionism to realism to abstraction; my paintings may be bold and simple or decorative and detailed.  I combine many other media with painting, and have also done innumerable figure drawings and pastels. My male and female figure art always begin with live models.  I love drawing and painting from the living figure because of the figure's sensuous forms and the life and energy it brings to the act of drawing.  For male figures, I like to emphasize the complexity of the musculature of the figure with interesting line and shading; with female figures I like to paint abstractions from the major sensuous shapes of the body. As a figure painter, I obviously respond to the dynamism and sensuality of the human body.  Whether attracted by color, form, movement, or expression, I begin with media that are swift and sensual, and work quickly to capture the figure.  This spontaneous figure drawing may complete the artwork, or I may work the figure into a complex painting or mixed media art work, often playful, energized with pattern and collage. Click any image below to see more works of that type. x x x This online  contemporary visual art gallery  includes bold, sensual, intriguing fine art in painting, drawing, pastel, collage, and mixed media.  See  realistic and expressionistic figure drawings,  abstract and decorative figure paintings,  playful figures,  portraits of men,  portraits of women,  still lifes,  abstract art,  decorative non-objective art,  reliefs and sculpture, and other  sensual contemporary art.  San Francisco area figure painter and artist Sharon Hudson, Berkeley, California.