PLAYFUL and WHIMSICAL FIGURE DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, and COLLAGES with a Japanese influence by contemporary figure painter Sharon Hudson.

<body bgcolor="#f3eadb"> <center> <h1><font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><i><b>PLAYFUL FIGURE DRAWINGS and PAINTINGS. </b></i></font></h1> </center> <p><b>This "playful figures" exhibit by artist Sharon Hudson includes humorous and whimsical figure drawings, paintings, collages, and mixed media art, with a Japanese influence.  Japanese patterned papers and the simple lines and light mood of ukiyo-e prints characterize these playful paintings and whimsical drawings. Hudson's stylistic inspiration also comes from figure painting masters like Gauguin, Klimt, Matisse, and Degas. </b></p> <center> <p><img height="216" width="168" src="../paintings/whimsical_figures/8619s_whimsical_figures.jpg" title="Dancing female figure art." alt="Whimsical female figure drawing"></p> <h2><font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><i><b>Whimsical female figure drawings.</b></i></font></h2> </center> <p><b>Hudson's figure drawing and figure painting reflects her travels of the past three decades, and for a time she studied calligraphy and textiles in rural Japan.  In addition to Japanese art, brilliant Mexican color, African abstraction, Hindu voluptuousness, and patterns from around the world have all left imprints on Hudson's figure drawing and painting.  </b></p> <center> <p><img height="216" width="177" src="../paintings/whimsical_figures/8238s_figure_paintings_whimsical.jpg" title="Dancing female figure art." alt="Whimsical female figure drawing"></p> <h2><font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><i><b>Playful figure paintings with collage.</b></i></font></h2> </center> <p><b>Hudson's figure drawings and paintings always begin with live models.  In her playful and whimsical fgures, the artist begins with media that are swift and sensual, and works quickly to capture the figure.  This spontaneous figure drawing may complete the artwork, or she may work the figure into a complex visual composition, energized with collage and decorative patterns. </b></p> <center> <p><img height="216" width="180" src="../paintings/whimsical_figures/8321s_figure_drawings_playful.jpg" title="Dancing female figure art." alt="Whimsical female figure drawing"></p> <h2><font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><i><b>Playful figure drawing with Japanese patterns.</b></i></font></h2> </center> <p><font size="2"><b>In addition to these playful and whimsical figure drawings and paintings, this contemporary art gallery also offers realistic and decorative figures, still lifes, portraits, abstracts, decorative non-objective patterns, and other kinds of art.  Bold, sensual, intriguing fine art in painting, collage, pastel, drawing, and mixed media. San Francisco Bay area visual artist Sharon Hudson, Berkeley, northern California.</b></font><b><br> </b></p> <center> <p><font size="2"><b>See more contemporary visual art at Sharon Hudson's website:<br> </b></font><a href="http://www.sharonhudson.com/index_painters.html" target="_top" title="Contemporary San Francisco figure painter Sharon Hudson."><font color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><b>www.sharonhudson.com.</b></font></a></p> </center> <div align="left"> <p><a href="../abstract.html" title="Contemporary abstract art and non-objective art.">See contemporary abstract and nonobjective art.</a> <a href="../collage.html" title="Contemporary collages and mixed media art.">See collages and mixed media art.</a> <a href="../drawing.html" title="Sensual contemporary drawings.">See sensual contemporary drawings.</a> <a href="../ecards.html" title="Contemporary fine art ecards.">See contemporary fine art ecards.</a> <a href="../sensual_ecards.html" title="See sensual and erotic ecards.">See sensual and erotic ecards.</a> <a href="../erotic.html" title="Erotic fine art figures.">See erotic fine art figures.</a> <a href="../female_figures.html" title="Contemporary fine art female figures.">See contemporary nude female figures.</a> <a href="../figure_drawing.html" title="Contemporary male and female figure drawing.">See contemporary male and female figure drawings.</a> <a href="../figure_painting.html" title="Contemporary male and female figure painting.">See contemporary male and female figure paintings.</a> <a href="../male_figures.html" title="Contemporary fine art male figures.">See contemporary fine art male figures.</a> <a href="../men.html" title="Fine art pictures of men.">See fine art drawings and paintings of men.</a> <a href="../nude_nudes.html" title="Contemporary fine art nudes and figures.">See contemporary fine art nudes and figures.</a> <a href="../painting.html" title="Colorful modern paintings.">See colorful modern paintings.</a> <a href="../portrait.html" title="Contemporary fine art portraits.">See contemporary fine art portraits.</a> <a href="../sculpture.html" title="Contemporary abstract sculpture and decorative reliefs.">See contemporary abstract sculpture and decorative reliefs.</a> <a href="../Still_life.html" title="Colorful still lifes and contemporary still-life paintings.">See colorful still lifes and contemporary still-life paintings.</a> <a href="../tropical.html" title="Tropical fine art and tropical pictures.">See tropical fine art and tropical pictures.</a> <a href="../women.html" title="Contemporary fine art pictures of women.">See contemporary fine art drawings and paintings of women.</a><a href="../women.html" title="Contemporary fine art pictures of women."><br> <br> <br> </a></div> </body>