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Alla Prima Series: Rim Lit Profile

🔦 Paint with edge and intensity. In this 2.5‑hour alla‑prima session, Kai Lun Qu tackles a profile portrait highlighted by dramatic rim lighting. He shows how to sculpt form with light, using bold value shifts and rich color to make features pop.


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Use rim light to define form and texture in hair and facial features 

  • 🌈 Layer and balance red, yellow, and blue tones in high‑contrast lighting 

  • 📐 Navigate challenging value relationships when the light and shadow are close in tone (like hair + background) 

  • 🛠️ Choose and use materials strategically — including brush and oil‑paint decisions made by Kai


Perfect for advanced portrait artists who want to tackle challenging lighting, value relationships, and textured hair—pushing their skills in edge control, color interplay, and expressive alla‑prima painting. 🕒 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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