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Warm Side-Lit Portrait Oil Painting by Kai Lun Qu

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Warm Side-lit Portraiture

🔥 From charcoal to oil: bring your portrait to life in glowing orange light. In this 1+ hour follow-up to Charcoal Graphite Hybrid Portrait, Kai Lun Qu shifts to oil painting with the same captivating reference—teaching bold techniques that build on your value skills.

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Start with oversaturated color and skillfully tone it down
🖌️ Create realistic skin tones under dramatic lighting
🌗 Apply value knowledge to enhance depth and form
🧠 Blend traditional drawing insights with alla prima oil painting

This lesson is perfect for artists ready to expand from drawing to painting with confidence and flair.
🕒 Runtime: 1+ hour

  • 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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