George Pratt - Hill 789 Documentary

**George Pratt** · October 31st, 2009, 11:36 PM

Hi, wanted to post a few images before the portfolio reviews this coming week.

The images I'm posting are from a job I'm working on right now for a documentary about a Romanian soldier in World War One.

I was contacted by the Honorary Consul to Romania in American, Dan Dimancescu to work on this film with him and his son for Romanian television. Basically I'm doing drawings and paintings for material they don't have existing photographic reference for.

These are mostly pen and ink, charcoal and pastel. A couple of them have spar varnish on them.

Hope you like them!

George

**bhanu** · November 1st, 2009, 02:18 AM

WOOOOAAAH, george pratt, I so wanted to get my portfolio reviewed by you but I am broke hheheh.
But thank you for these gem of artworks.... Saving them all for inspiration. Thank

**el coro** · November 1st, 2009, 03:20 AM

oh no!!!! its GEORGE PRATT IN THE MF-ING HOUSE!!!

hows it going man? so cool to see you posting on our humble little boards. i still think back to our judging of the illest of the ill at like 2 in the morning...the kegger we went to...the good times we shared...

these are all awesome . i love your direct approach. there's something everyone could learn from your fearlessness. but that last one in particular...man...you really understand the meaning of the deft mark.

im stoked that our crews are playing together now! hey, i think the future is so bright, i have to put my shades on or something like that.

hugs!

c36

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 04:16 AM

Coro,
Man, it's great to be here! This is one happening place, and always has been. I'm honored to be here.

It was a blast when you came down to Ringling and blew everyone's minds with your presentation and demos. They're still talking about it, and anyone that missed it still gripes about it.

But it was great to meet you then and to find out how easy going you are. Lots of fun!

I think the combo of ConceptArt and the Academy is killer and covers all the bases that could possibly need covering.

I'm a little nervous about the portfolio reviews, but it should be fun. I feel like my work is sort of old fashioned after looking at all the high-tech stuff on this site. There's so much really nice work here! Very cool to see!

Looking forward to hanging some more with you sometime in San Fran.

George

**Ian Barker** · November 1st, 2009, 04:58 AM

Very nice work... the last one is especially well done!

And don't worry about all the other "high tech" stuff, the type of work you do is a breath of fresh air.

**t11** · November 1st, 2009, 09:43 AM

As always an inspiration!

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 11:15 AM

Here is another from "Hill 789".

Thanks for the nice welcome, everyone.

George

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 11:18 AM

Oh, and I also have a blog that, unfortunately, doesn't get updated very often, but I think there's some good info on the site:

http://web.mac.com/georgepratt/Georg...g/Welcome.html

George

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 11:47 AM

Here are some non-"Hill 789" images. These range from things I just did for myself, figure drawings, to material for my blues novel "See You In Hell, Blind Boy", to work for my collaboration with poet Gabor Barabas on "Find Me a Voice" - a book of Holocaust poems.

These first three are from "See You In Hell, Blind Boy". The first is in acrylic. The second is just pen with watercolor. The third is playing with Mark English's wet pastel technique and tar.

Here are a couple of life drawings in Nu-Pastel.

The next three are from "Find Me a Voice". The first is acrylic, oil and tar. The other two are oils. The second one is about 5 feet tall.

The next ones were just pieces done for myself, or as demos for classes. The first is in acrylic, oil and tar. The rest are just oil.

Hope you like!

And as Anita Kunz said in her post, this site is so HUGE! I'm enjoying digging around in here and discovering so much great work! Looking forward to the portfolio review on Wednesday, November 4, with Wes Burt.

George

**squidmonk3j** · November 1st, 2009, 12:11 PM

I'm speechless...it's all too magnificent.

Thank you for posting

**Giorge** · November 1st, 2009, 12:22 PM

holly shit , i read about this on your site couple of weeks ago , really nice work!

congratulations

Giorge.

**Sung-jae Kim** · November 1st, 2009, 02:05 PM

Ooh! I haven't seen a bunch of these before.
Thank you so much for posting

(and thanks again for the e-mail

)

**Victor B** · November 1st, 2009, 04:11 PM

WOW, pure love, thanks for posting.

**Sung-jae Kim** · November 1st, 2009, 05:58 PM

-OMG-, I just saw the comment you left on my sketchbook.
Thank you so much!! T__T

**wesburt** · November 1st, 2009, 06:11 PM

hi george!
love all the work, its really cool to see you posting on here!!
looking forward to chatting and doing the portfolio reviews

wes

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 06:27 PM

Wes, Thanks for welcoming me to the site. I'm really looking forward to the reviews as well. You have been an incredibly powerful inspiration to so many of my own students. Made my job a lot easier.

George

**George Pratt** · November 1st, 2009, 06:27 PM

Sung-jae,

Hope the information helps.

George

**Manu is malin** · November 1st, 2009, 06:36 PM

Waow, amazing to have you on these boards George, thanks for sharing this highly inspiring paintings !

**yyates05** · November 1st, 2009, 08:24 PM

you are awesome!

**bcarman** · November 1st, 2009, 09:20 PM

Stunning! Always stunning.

http://billcarman.blogspot.com

**Raoul Duke** · November 1st, 2009, 10:03 PM

Wow the legendary George motherfucking Pratt! I have to say you are one of my biggest influences, seriously I'm not joking.

What is this tar painting you speak of?

**Sterling Hundley** · November 1st, 2009, 10:55 PM

George,

Great to see you here! Just did an interview with the guys at Sidebar Nation. They wanted to know all about my side of the Illustration Academy story! Good times- should be out soon. When they asked about my involvement, I blamed you for everything!

Hope you are well, and I hope to catch up with you soon. Beautiful work, as always.

s.

**vertebra** · November 2nd, 2009, 12:25 AM

hey george, miss your demos man.

guess who? I went over to FA at ringling, and im not michael. heh.

hope all is well man, keep up the solid stuff.

**bhanu** · November 2nd, 2009, 01:06 AM

Thank you , thank you , thank you!!!!!!!!

**zweiDee** · November 2nd, 2009, 02:41 AM

love all of them!

**cotron** · November 2nd, 2009, 02:48 AM

George! Great to see you on here, and great to see the new stuff!

Gangbusters!

**naomiful** · November 2nd, 2009, 01:52 PM

George Pratt!!!

You're a huge inspiration for me and like Coro mentioned above your fearlessness is GREAT

I'm just leaving a comment giving you many kudos and it is excitement for my eyes to see this work on the boards ~!

Take care!

- Naomi