A successful young artist sketches Mike

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Weiss,

Georgie and his mother, Dubrava, are most excited about Michael's upcoming performances in the Olympics. We are all looking forward to watching you skate, wish you the very best, and hope that you will win the Gold Medal!

As promised, Georgie has drawn two sketches of you, Michael, and they are attached to this email. I hope you will see them as enchanting as I did when I first saw them. Georgie has watched you skate each time you have been on TV and feels that you are a very courageous man. That is why he chose to name both sketches, A Test of Courage. He is very excited to know what you think of them!

With kindest regards,
Nanette Manning, President
http://www.georgiepocheptsov.com

Georgie Pocheptsov, or Georgie as he is affectionately known to his family and friends, is nine years old. He was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1992 to Ukrainian parents. At an age where most children have barely graduated from finger painting, Georgie was drawing jesters, pregnant women, and four-headed giraffes, all in luminescent colors. He started to paint at the age of 17 months, 6 months before he started to talk. His perception of life is his own. It is a magic world of angels and monsters, birds, animals, and fish, filled with love and happiness. Completely self-taught, Georgie is often compared by the press as a young Picasso or Chagall. Georgie has appeared in many leading magazines, including People, Parents, Time, US Art, Art and Antiques, Art News, Architectural Digest, and The Carolinas. He has also made appearances on The Oprah Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Later Today Show, The Maury Povich Show, and Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Internationally, Georgie has been featured on television programs in London, Paris, Korea, South Africa, and Holland. He has exhibited at the international Art Expo in New York, Atlanta, and California annually since 1998. His work is on display at numerous galleries throughout the US, including Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Florida, and Wilmington, NC.

You can review his art at:

http://www.georgiepocheptsov.com