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Johnny Winter February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014 | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Johnny Winter February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014. Johnny Winter by George Pratt for d’Addario Guitar Strings. This was originally written and posted on Facebook. I’ve added a little here and there and am including some images from my sketchbooks. Saddened by the death of Johnny Winter. I’m from the same hometown of Beaumont, Texas and was incredibly fortunate to get to meet Johnny at his home in New York in the 1990’s. Jack Owens, Bentonia, Mississippi, 1993. I wen...

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GEORGEPRATT.COM Website Total Overhaul | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. GEORGEPRATT.COM Website Total Overhaul. The new face of GeorgePratt.com. It’s been years, really, since I’ve made an effort to post to my www.georgepratt.com. I hope you’ll take the time to scope everything out. I’ve expanded the site and have hopefully broken it down into manageable chunks according to media and projects. There’s a sizeable sketchbook section where I’m constantly scanning my sketchbooks and posting. A constantly growing sketchbook section! The Se...

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April | 2012 | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Archive for April, 2012. Here’s a sketch I did of Steve Taft at our faculty meeting today. Still enjoying playing with ProCreate. 8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. April 25, 2012 Categories: Drawing. More iPad pieces in progress. Anyway, these are in progress, but I’m having fun with the brushes. 8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. April 20, 2012 Categories: Drawing. Here’s how it sort of started. 8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. April 9,...

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February | 2013 | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Archive for February, 2013. Sunday, February 14, 2010. While hauling all of my painting crap to the studio today I was reflecting on how artists are willing to continue doing what they’re doing regardless of incredible odds and so much negativity in a world that really doesn’t understand, or want to understand, the urges one has to create. I mean, really, what’s in it for us as artists, right? What makes that happen? Weird, isn’t it? There’s a little of both...

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Outdoor Architecture | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. I hope this post does not offend anyone, but the contents of an old envelope from my grandfather brought a smile to my face and I thought I’d regale you with what was inside. I come from a long line of image makers and storytellers, and though there are gaps here and there in the lineage, they’re not massive gaps. My great grandfather, George Pratt (I’m the fourth — and, yes my son is the fifth! George H. Pratt Sr. and George H. Pratt Junior. And another JD label.

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May | 2012 | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Archive for May, 2012. Anyway, in the course of presenting this time around I was hit once again by the unusual power of Greg Irons’s work. I was fortunate to have a cousin who was older than myself and one who reveled in introducing me to things I would never have seen otherwise, and probably shouldn’t have seen! I was stunned by the work. Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Jack Jackson (Jaxon), Dave Sheridan, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez and Greg Irons&#4...There...

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September | 2014 | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Archive for September, 2014. Readers of this blog will recall that I was invited to Germany to work on the Black.Light project with several international artists. You can read the account of that trip here:. That was a transformative decision for me. Because I couldn’t noodle with a putty knife the work took on a more direct and edgy feel. They were so much more suggestive than the pen drawings I was doing. I felt very good at that point about wh...I teach an Adva...

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. I was looking through the various posts I’ve made since I upgraded this blog from my old artblog and realized that I haven’t posted about the Illustration Academy. On this new version. Crazy! I was honored to have my image on the Academy poster last year. Mark English drawing demonstration. John English drawing demonstration. Jon Foster and John English working with students. A typical week at the Illustration Academy. Bud Cook’s final cover design. On Monday a ne...

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Limiting the Lines | MURMURS

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Wanderings of an artist in the trenches. Readers of this blog will recall that I was invited to Germany to work on the Black.Light project with several international artists. You can read the account of that trip here:. While there I got to meet Danijel Zezelj whose work I have loved for quite awhile, and watch him at work with his rollers and acrylic paint. I was struggling with a way to approach the work I was to do for that project because I didn’t want to just do what I normally do. I teach an Advanc...