"Roan Barbary". Canvas. Oil. 24"x30"

by Elena
(Arlington,TX,USA)

Hello everyone! My name is Elena.I never received any formal art training, never even attending a class on artistic composition. I was anxious to learn and I studied in the evenings on the basics of painting, drawing, and composition from helpful sites I visited on the internet. To this day, I still study and I feel that achieving my goal of being a genuine artist will require that I continuously study all of my life.

ROAN BARBARY: This is the name of King Richard II's favorite horse. "When Bolingbroke rode on Roan Barbary, That horse that thou so often hast bestrid." Shakespeare: Richard II., v. 5. Roan means "reddish-brown." Barbary means "foreign lands," from Latin barbarus, meaning "barbarous," possibly ultimately from Greek barbar, a word used to describe the sound of the unintelligible speech of foreigners.