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Painting Realistic Fur

How Carl Brenders paints detailed fur and feather textures

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James Gurney
May 27, 2024
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Carl Brenders (b. 1937) is a wildlife artist from Belgium known for his richly detailed gouache and watercolor paintings of mammals and birds in their environments.

How does he do it? There’s not much information about his technique available online, but I did some digging.

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