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Pet Portrait Series: Side-Lit Wild Dog

🐾 Capture the wild spirit of the African wild dog with bold, expressive strokes. In this 1+ hour live-recorded demo, Kai Lun Qu teaches you how to build volume, depth, and life in a limited time — using value, structure, and confident mark-making. 


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Develop strong value relationships in fur, even with complex patterns

  • 💡 Compose the portrait with side-lighting that sculpts form and heightens drama

  • 🧠 Simplify natural fur texture into readable shapes without over-detailing

  • 🔍 Use the background thoughtfully to support the subject and increase visual impact 


Perfect for artists who want to explore animal portraiture beyond domestic pets — to bring wildness, structure, and painterly freedom into an elegant, compelling painting. Runtime: 1+ hours

  • Kai Lun Qu

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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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