Who are your favourite artists .

Great works featured.  It's a tall order picking one from so many artists I admire.  If I have to it'll be Ronald Searle...big surprise.  I grew up looking at his work.  He has a wonderfully imaginative style...instantly recognisable.  Someone who knew him and watched him working, said he didn't worry about mistakes, he left them in.  I guess he was getting so much work he didn't have the time to fuss. Oh to be able to draw buildings like this. He produced books galore.  Above from one about dogs.  This is very Ralph Steadman, another artist I admire, but Searle is earlier than Steadman. Above from a book about wine drinkers.  How to depict a legless drunk.  Priceless. Funny how it all comes back to simple things like apple cider in Punin Wine in the end. Above from a title sequence for a Scrooge film.  Wonderfully casual, wonderfully accurate.  I give up. One of many book covers.  It seems effortless. He did straightforward cartoons too. A rude homage to Hockney's 'A Bigger Splash.' These are random selections from pics saved from the internet.  I've yet to find something of Searle's that I don't like.  Sadly for me, most of his books are out of print.  I haunt old bookshops.  (He did the St Trinions books by the way.) Ronald Searle...a genius.