“Black man’s vision of comics and fantasy. An eye for realistic things. Backed with talent and ambition, makes for success…not just a dream.”
Raun Hardwrict
About Me
About Me
Raun Hardwrict is a visual classical realism artist whose artistic talents were discovered at a very young age. Throughout his career, he has displayed his many artistic abilities as a commercial artist, a photographer, a cartoonist, a magician, and a professional clown.
Background
A native of St Louis Missouri, Raun graduated from Beaumont High School where he solidified his artistic gifts. He went on to Kansas City Art Institute where he received a BFA Degree in fine arts with a minor in photography. Throughout his career, he has attended many art lectures and seminars to enhance his knowledge of the various media, visual arts, and enhanced artistic techniques. He specializes in oil, acrylic, and airbrush medium. A resident of Atlanta Georgia for since 2005, he has continued his accomplishments to become a well sought after portrait artist and teacher.
Professional Engagements
Throughout his forty-year career, Raun has utilized his gifts as a ministry and has provided services as a photographer, cartoonist, magician, professional clown, and art instructor. His professional engagements include:
• St Louis Post Dispatch • KPLR TV Channel • Proud Magazine and Television Show • City of St Louis Public Schools • Hogan Art Studios • Joe Sign Service • Monsanto YMCA • Portfolio Gallery and Educational center • Central Institute for Deaf • Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus • St Louis Arena
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Figurative Gallery
Portrait Gallery
Still Life Gallery
Landscape Gallery
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Testimonials
We appreciate Mr. Hardrict’s professionalism, attention to detail, and willingness to put the customer first. He is a very skilled artist and his work ethic shows in his paintings. I look forward to doing business with Mr. Hardrict again for future projects.
Respectfully,
My daughter has been attending the G&H art camp this summer, and we are so happy to have discovered this camp!! She has attended a different art camp for several summers, and so many features of the G&H camp are superior to where she has been going: price, location, hours, ages allowed, variety of activities, unique offerings, and skills taught. Considering how many years of art camp my daughter already had, we thought we had seen it all and she had experienced everything an art camp could offer, but that was so far from the truth. Every week at the G&H camp has been a new and fun adventure, with her learning skills and doing activities she has never done before. She is always in a great mood when we pick her up. We definitely plan to send her to this camp again!
My only recommendation is a business one — in addition to offering the very affordable rates for campers attending the entire summer, also offer a higher rate for campers only wanting to attend select weeks. A couple of my daughter’s friends wanted to attend for a week or two because they had other commitments the rest of the summer, but they felt they could not do that.
Below is a message from my daughter, to tell about the camp in her own words:
I like the fact that the camp lets you go into a dark room and develop the photos you take. It is the only camp I’ve ever heard of doing that. They teach you how to draw people, how to airbrush, and more, like painting and magic. The kids going to it are fun and friendly, as well as the instructors. You practice painting and drawing still-lifes and people, as well as make your own cartoons from your imagination. You get to put on clown makeup and dress like a clown, which is always kinda silly and fun. You also learn how to do “tattoos” and face painting. It is the only art camp I’ve gone to with that much variety in activities.
We look forward to many years of her attending G&H art camp and are also hoping to get G&H available as an after-care program at her middle school.