Our two week fashion design and illustration camp delves deep into the fashion world with a focus on learning the technical art skills to create great fashion illustrations. We learned all about fashion design and the fashion industry while creating unique designs for our very own fashion collections!
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In this camp, we explore different periods in history starting from the prehistoric, traveling through the middle ages, and all the way to the future! As we learned about various time periods and locations, we created crafts to reflect upon our discoveries!
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In this one week intensive painting camp, we learned the foundations and some advanced techniques of landscape painting with acrylics and watercolors. We spent time plen air to experience life as an artist trying to capture the landscape in the moment.
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In this camp, we learned about the natural world through fun and creative craftwork! We created a painting made from watercolors and actual plants, pinecone owls, and even our own fairy forest homes!
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We had a fun two weeks learning about figure drawing and character development! Not only did we learn about drawing, but we learned how to consider the background, emotions, and actions of a character in developing their visual design. On top of that, we travelled to San Francisco to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum to learn more about one of the great masters in character design and all of his great stories - Walt Disney!
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We had so much fun exploring the animal kingdom through art! We learned about many different animals and how they live by creating watercolor paintings, finger puppets, and even shadow puppets!
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We had a lot of fun checking out Google's Self-Driving Car prototype - we took 10 of our top students to see the car and learn more about it before the upcoming art competition to decorate the car and make it even more cool to look at!
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Mindy Comic Summer Camp is where kids come together to create their own comic adventure! In just two weeks, we created three full length graphic novels! After the character designs, dialog, storyline, and artwork are completed, Hongyun Art works with a publisher to put the books into print! They are available for purchase on Amazon.com and other retailers as well as available to libraries around the world! Cool!
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Five Sense Art Camp was super fun! We created great crafts that explore all of our senses and even toured Whole Foods Market to learn about our senses of taste and smell! What a delicious way to learn!
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What a fun camp! We learned about sea creatures and created fun ocean themed crafts! Hope you enjoy the photos!
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Congratulations to our Red Cloud students! This year's Maker Faire was even better than the last! We operated our booth quite smoothly and earned over $3500 for the Hongyun Art Foundation! This is a 71% earnings growth over last year's event proceeds! WOW!
Not only that, we won two Maker Faire awards!! The first is the "Best in Class" award for the dark room (where we were located in the event). The second is the Editor's Choice award which gives us a chance of being featured in Make Magazine - the leading international publication for the Maker Movement. CONGRATS TEAM!!
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Are you ready? We are! Hongyun Art will be exhibiting at Maker Faire for the 2nd year in a row! We're super excited and honored to have been chosen to a part of this awesome event! Our red cloud students are pumped up and ready to go! If you're going, we'll be in the dark room area of the festival - see you there!
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Welcome new Red Cloud students! Hope you had fun at our team building event!
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Great job Caroline H. (Age 12, Red Cloud) for winning the 99 Ranch Market Character Design Competition! Her artwork will be featured in upcoming marketing materials for the 99 Ranch Market chain of stores! Wow!
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Congratulations to Emily Z. (Age 9, Lime Cloud) for winning her school's t-shirt competition!
Great job Emily!
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This Spring Camp, we had lots of fun with two nature related camps! For our younger campers we had a nature crafting camp where we created fun crafts with a nature theme! Our Science Sketchbook Camp was a hit with our students age 10 and up - we learned about and drew all kinds of animals just like scientist did when they first started documenting the natural world!
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