My top eight

The Night Watch by Rembrandt, 1642, at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Public domain image from Wikipedia

Painters

This was intended to be my top ten list but I can't decide on the last two, there are so many I would like to include. So it's eight for now.

Picasso -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9oaD0e7uU
Rembrandt -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTo66G-F0s
Paul Klee -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHG0UurgZE
Alice Neel -- http://www.aliceneel.com/, http://www.aliceneel.com/home/
Andy Warhol -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUqJGdSU6k
Peter Doig -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbr28EeTCq8
Gerhard Richter -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExfNJDh4K1g
Sean Scully -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgeUgjYVoLE

P.S. I've added some sketchbook pages to my website -- http://maryadam.com/sketchbooks.html