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Pet Portrait Series: Furball

🐱 Capture fur, form, and feline personality with expressive confidence. In this 2.5+ hour demo, Kai Lun Qu leads you through painting a regal cat portrait — combining realism with painterly energy, without getting lost in every single hair. 


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Suggest the softness and texture of fur with thoughtful edge control — using lost and soft edges rather than over-detailing with a #0 brush

  • 🌗 Use subtle shifts in fur color and value to build believable form and volume 

  • 🖌️ Build structure with strong shapes first, then layer painterly brushwork for expression and depth

  • 💡 Work alla prima (wet-into-wet) with intention — balancing spontaneity and control to keep the piece feeling alive


Ideal for advanced artists who want to bring animal portraits to life with emotional power and technical skill. 🕒 Runtime: 2.5+ hours

  • Kai Lun Qu

    Instructor

  • Advanced

    Difficulty
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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