The art nude is one of the oldest subjects in painting, sculpture, photography, and other fine art.  My own nude paintings always begin with live female or male models.  Whether attracted by color, form, movement, or expression, I begin with art media that are swift and sensual, and work quickly to capture the figure.  This spontaneous drawing may complete the art, or I may work the figure, whether nude or clothed, into a complex composition in painting and collage, often playful, energized with patterns that surround, overlap, and complement the figure. 

My fine art nudes and clothed figures in painting and drawing range from expressive and realistic to abstract and decorative, but they all reflect a sensuality and frank enjoyment of the nude body, male or female, which viewers find both charming and disarming.  The artistic inspiration for my figurative fine art comes from powerful Renaissance realists like Michaelangelo, and modern masters of sensuality like Gauguin, Klimt, Matisse, and Degas.  Today as ever, nude paintings and other fine art nudes retain their universal and timeless appeal.

This online  contemporary visual art gallery  includes bold, sensual, intriguing fine art in painting, drawing, pastel, collage, and mixed media.  See  realistic and expressive 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 Bay Area artist Sharon Hudson, Berkeley and Oakland, California.