My Top !O List posts are just some of what I think is really wonderful, and it may be way more than ten. Since the birth of this blog was to give public face to my work, I start with some influences. Not complete, I’m forgetting somebody, and in no particular order except the first one.

If I could create like anybody, I’d make like #1. His work imprinted me incredibly young, and stayed #1:

• 1. Brian Wildsmith.  

• 2.Glen Rounds
• 3. Virginia Lee Burton
• 4.Simms Taback
• 5. Alice and Martin Provensen
• 6. Marla Frazee
• 7. Stacey Schuett
• 8. David Small
• 9. Trina Schart Hyman
• !0. Mark Buehner
• !1. Tibor Gergely
• !2. Thomas Hart Benton
• !3. Eric Carle
• !4. Wanda Gag
• !5. Robert McCloskey
• !7. Johnny Gruelle
• !8. Maxfield Parrish
• !9. Minerva Teichert
• 20. Arthur Rackham
• 21. Kay Nielsen
• 22. Judy Schachner
• 23. Ashley Wolff
• 24. Robert Lawson
• 25. Pamela Zagarenski
• 26. Unknown European mixed media artists.
• 27. Norman Rockwell
• 28. My mom
• 29. Very few art teachers, for great ill or good.
• 3o. Everett Thorpe
• 31. Holli Conger