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Portrait Brushstroke Economy

🖌️ Make every stroke matter. In this 2-hour live-recorded demo, Kai Lun Qu teaches you how to strip away overworking and noodle-free your portraits — bringing fresh, confident alla-prima energy to your painting. 

You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎯 Use brushstroke economy to bring structure and painterly freedom to your portraits 

  • 💡 Make deliberate decisions about where each stroke goes — cutting down wasted movement and fluff

  • 🧠 Maintain compositional clarity and rhythm, even while working expressively 

  • 🔄 Translate live-demo insights into your own workflow — so future paintings feel alive, intentional, and efficient S


Perfect for painters who want to move past overworking and start using bold, confident brushwork that feels alive. Runtime: 2+ hours


This course was filmed live and includes live discussion.

  • Kai Lun Qu

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

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Meet your instructor

Kai Lun Qu

Kai Lun Qu is know for his alla prima paintings filled with expression and painterly strokes that evoke deep emotions. His unique blend of traditional style with a contemporary twist is a result of two extremes: a formal training in China’s most prestigious art academy, China Central Academy of Fine Arts and intense studies with renown contemporary painters like Daniel Keys, Tim Rees and Michelle Dunaway in the United States. 
In 2018, He was featured in Southwest Art Magazine, 21 under 31: Young Artists to Watch. 

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