I love this assignment almost as much as the first one. Just thinking about it has brought enlightment to who I am and what art has influenced me. I never thought about it that way before. I have organized it in both Chronological order and by theme - the horse.
When I was a child I loved to draw horses. At age seven I, actually, was on a kids TV show demonstrating how I drew this first horse in my list of ten.
- Child horse drawing
2. Horse movie - when I was a bit older than when I drew the TV horse, I saw a movie about a boy who tried to save a wild stallion from capture. I unfortunately can’t produce a real picture as no one can recall the name of the movie. It was a handsome white stallion. The boy and horse escaped by riding into the sea at the end of the movie, very emotional for a ten year old who loves horses
3. I rode horses as I grew and learned to respect their spirit and fine body. Brushing and grooming them made their physical presence much clearer.
4. Roger Suruad, France - I fell in love with this artist’s style of composing several images on one canvas. I especially loved the ones with horses running in them. www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com, Roger+Suraud+%2B+Tutt%27Art%40+
5. Venice is my favorite city and the four beautiful Byzatine horses is a contributing factor. The Horses of Saint Mark, also known as the Triumphal Quadriga, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing) The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.
6. Using the inspiring paintings of Suraud and the visit to the horses of St. Mark, I painted this oil on canvas.2’X3” depicting the things I treasured from my trips to Venice
- An Irish mythology tells of the kelpie horses appearing out of the rolling waves of the sea. My friend Jane O’Donahue wrote a children’s book about it and I made an Illustration for the cover. (No Photo available) W/C and guache.
- Gennady Spirin uses soft use of color and design and I just love looking at his illustrations like this one of the fanciful horse.
9. My research into medieval times for a book I am writing brought me to parades of nobility through villages on horseback and prompted me to make a silver point picture of a unicorn. 
9. Leonardo da Vinci ‘s horses were very inspirational for my oil painting. I used two of his horses among mine.
10. My latest project, horses running out of the water, ocean, in oil on canvas.
