Thank you so much for finding and posting this series. My father devised and produced this program. Tom Keeting stayed a family for many years up until his Death a year before I was born. I remember growing up a poster from his Art show at the Barbican over looking the landing in our house and in my dads office a drawing by Matt the newspaper artist of when this show first aired on Channel 4. Great memories thank you !
Way back in the seventies I was carrying out a repair job in a house at Dedham. The owner of the house met Tom Keating in a local pub and brought him back to the house for a chat. This was just after Tom addmitted to faking many many paintings by famouse artists. The house owner later told me Tom was worried about his safety, he had upset many people in the art world with those fakes so he carried a hand gun in his pocket for protection, I never found out if that was true.
I have learned so much from this man. He truly was a throwback to the old masters. His knowledge of art and techniques and the ability to do them is phenomenal. Nevermind the past, his talent was outstanding.
I remember watching this master when I was a kid, well a teen. PBS had some of these. I remember him explaining that one could paint a proper rock with "One's shoe. As long as the contrast was correct to the light effect."
Please don't troll this man or is work, I for one have loved this short video, wonderful . Those who can't appreciate true art should stay focused on the Tracey Emmens of the so called Modern Art.
great quote...the best videos I ever seen on youtube RIP...Tom Keating...i am an artist & i always learn so so much on your videos.!......RIP...Tom Keating
Really sad that he was a forger rather than building a name of his own; I thought he was amazing. Thank you for posting this show. I go back and re watch these every now and then, because they are so good and inspiring!
Back in the late 50's Tom Keating was ,as I was told,moving around Scotland painting portraits of Scottish town provosts to make a living.While he was in Inverness he met my father a heavy drinker too.They struck up a drunken friendship and Keating stayed at our house for a month or 2.I remember his showing me how to draw eyes.My mother asked him to leave due to the drink problem.He left a pair of expensive shoes which I wore for quite a while.He apparently straightened himself up and become s apparently.uccessful
Sometimes I wonder if Turner would be impressed with me. When no ones around, I dig a hole in my garden and cover myself with dirt and pretend I’m a carrot.
It would take a lifetime just to achieve and learn from this man. What a Born Gift he had. Amazing talent and very, very rare these days. Wow! what a special man. Stevie in Scotland.
It is rare these days because the patrons of fine art are no longer the Church , the monarchs mor the aristocracy! The patrons of fine art today are very weird billionnairs.
"Amazing!" Wheres my easel? Makes me wish I had studied art techniques more intensely many years ago, Seeing, and experiencing thousands of great works over 50 years helps, but leaves one lacking without benefit of little known techniques. This will make better painters out of a lot of people. Painting on canvas is far far from a dead art form, or obsolete. It lives on with great fervor for quality work created with passion, and skill.
Thank you, too, very interesting and fascinating to watch! As a former retired NYC fashion illustrator now fine art painter who lives by the sea, I love Turner's work which was also a precursor to abstract expressionism! I use acrylics and paint in an impressionist/lyrical abstract expressionist way, but also do figurative painting influenced by John William Waterhouse's figures and also influenced by Claude Monet. My late great uncle Capt. Howard Hartman was a sea captain and artist who wrote a fascinating book, "The Seas Were Mine" and was friends with Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad and would have loved to watch this as well. Love the idea of using a sponge to soften the painting, too! While not into painting ships, I love to paint different cloud formations, the sea and gardens of flowers having been a floral designer as well. Copying the masters is still a time honored way to teach oneself to paint! Good points made here as well. I'm used to working fast because in fashion/art school in Manhattan they timed our drawings with a timer, ten minute sketches, then five minutes, three minutes down to a one minute sketch! One had to learn to work fast as a fashion artist in the fashion industry! Acrylics also dry faster than oil and another reason to work quickly, but it's very easy to go over any mistakes one may make. Sometimes, mistakes aren't mistakes as originally thought and I've left them in on purpose because in the end, they look ok in the scheme of things! A reason not to try and be a perfectionist when doing art. especially art as art therapy!
Thanks ever so much for posting this. I have the other programmes on videotape, but not this one. Tom Keating is obviously very fondly remembered by all nascent young painters (like me) at the original time of these broadcasts who were inspired and catalysed by his enthusiasm. He certainly wouldn't have fitted in today's hyperbolic approach to television presentation. Or even been allowed to..
Magnifique ! Il faut être un peintre de talent pour comprendre la subtilité de l'art de Turner. Quelle merveilleuse idée que cette vidéo qui permet de regarder différemment les toiles de ce génie de la peinture.
I’ve been obsessed by Turner’s skies for my entire artistic life- I spent a winter acrylic painting from some Turner painting images, just to learn how to achieve that soft frothing light. They are still some of my favorite studies. This was fascinating to watch- thank you for sharing! I’m no longer focused on painting, but it’s always good to sit and learn more skills/ hear the artist’s stories.
Fantastic'. Dialogue explained depth of techniques used in the waiting, Turner is my favour it artist aso- I had wondered how he attained the luminosity in his paintings'. Incredible work. Thank o
Amazing.. such knowledge and pleasure to watch.. How lucky we are to see a wonderful person showing us masterfully how to paint with passion and such skill :)
As a self-taught painter ( "to be" painter :P) I find his videos very useful. Finally there is someone who shows you or gives you at least an idea how the great masters started out their works. It is really hard nowadays to find a master and get into apprenticeship with him/her so you can learn painting properly. Instead there are schools who put you in debt for thousands and thousands and even so, they don't tell or teach you everything either...
As an artist, I've found Tom's presentations both inspirational and technically beneficial. I get the feeling he forgot more about how to draw and paint than I'll ever learn! After watching several shows I did some research on Tom and learned of his past and that he died shortly after making these shows for the BCC. It does seem clear he is not in great health so when I watch them over, it is tinged with some sadness. He was clearly a gifted, humble and intelligent man with a passion for Art!
Wether you went to a formal Art School or not, all artists learn from other artists in some way or another. In my younger days I would have given just about anything to apprentice under Mr. Keating. I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find someone with a wider range of knowledge & understanding about art, and the ability to present that knowledge in a way that is both easy to understand and useful in a practical way. I've met many artists that were horrible teachers, and great teachers that were average artists. Not many are both great artists and extraordinary teachers. Tom Keating was both.
tempra paint ie; poster paint or liken to guache. he says it is just pigment and distilled water. no egg. It crumbles when applied to thickly. hence the need for the varnish to lock it down as it were.
mr keating leaves the viewer with the impression of a man who knows his life did not afford him enough time to complete the things he wished to achieved.....maybe it is that way for all men...in retrospect.
Was him who put on me the vicious of painting, in a good sense naturally. I have tapes on VHS, of this series of videos. I buy it in 1980, I never forget,
very interesting approach explaining the paint techniques.....think he lived in brentwood essex..(tom K that is !)...did a clarke colours the turner trail in yorkshire 1995 art course weekend based in wensleydale..great fun ..and learning with the countess of wharncliffe who's family used to own the hardraw falls and other areas he painted ..GDC
I love watching him perform the various techniques while explaining the history of each individual artist. My only complaint is the mouth-breathing. But every pleasure has a price-lol
Thank you so much for finding and posting this series. My father devised and produced this program. Tom Keeting stayed a family for many years up until his Death a year before I was born. I remember growing up a poster from his Art show at the Barbican over looking the landing in our house and in my dads office a drawing by Matt the newspaper artist of when this show first aired on Channel 4.
Great memories thank you !
You’re dad did a hell of a good job with this show. I’ve seen every episode I could find. The intro animation is fantastic as well.
A massive thank you to your father. This series is simply brilliant.
Way back in the seventies I was carrying out a repair job in a house at Dedham. The owner of the house met Tom Keating in a local pub and brought him back to the house for a chat. This was just after Tom addmitted to faking many many paintings by famouse artists. The house owner later told me Tom was worried about his safety, he had upset many people in the art world with those fakes so he carried a hand gun in his pocket for protection, I never found out if that was true.
Watched this for the Turner, stayed for the Keating.
The work of a Master is evident over time. The approach, knowledge and ease with which the work is done is awe inspring. RIP. Thanks for the share.
I have learned so much from this man. He truly was a throwback to the old masters. His knowledge of art and techniques and the ability to do them is phenomenal. Nevermind the past, his talent was outstanding.
Well done Mr. Keating. You were one of a kind.
One of the best videos I ever seen on u tube.
nicey!
Ditto
here, here !!
I don’t know dude. Have you seen any of the beach volleyball competitions?
The introductory segment alone deserves a "thumb's up". This is a fun presentation. I am glad to see such respect for Turner.
I remember watching this master when I was a kid, well a teen. PBS had some of these. I remember him explaining that one could paint a proper rock with "One's shoe. As long as the contrast was correct to the light effect."
This was amazing and precious.
What an amazingly talented and knowledgeable painter was Keating. This, and other videos of him blow me away. Thanks for posting this.
Lovely. It's well worth listening to Tom Keating being interviewed in the 'Desert Island Discs' archives too. Great chap.
Oh Julyan you little beauty! thanks. i forgot about the Desert Island Discs archive
I've watched this video about a hundred times, it was the only way I could paint my own Turner.
My goodness what a stupid comment...
@@SpottedBullet Irony.
That was amazing. It is extraordinary to witness how calmly he paints it all.
Please don't troll this man or is work, I for one have loved this short video, wonderful . Those who can't appreciate true art should stay focused on the Tracey Emmens of the so called Modern Art.
Tom Keating was a genius, good to see these again.
This is like a criminal version of Bob Ross. I love it.
great quote...the best videos I ever seen on youtube RIP...Tom Keating...i am an artist & i always learn so so much on your videos.!......RIP...Tom Keating
Good joke past me.
The man was acquitted.
LOL
@@kentallard8852 you use the router? Lol
Really sad that he was a forger rather than building a name of his own; I thought he was amazing. Thank you for posting this show. I go back and re watch these every now and then, because they are so good and inspiring!
This is wonderful. Thank you for posting. TH-cam, the best in our civilized life.
Back in the late 50's Tom Keating was ,as I was told,moving around Scotland painting portraits of Scottish town provosts to make a living.While he was in Inverness he met my father a heavy drinker too.They struck up a drunken friendship and Keating stayed at our house for a month or 2.I remember his showing me how to draw eyes.My mother asked him to leave due to the drink problem.He left a pair of expensive shoes which I wore for quite a while.He apparently straightened himself up and become s apparently.uccessful
sad..the only thing you feel he left you with...were a pair of old shoes
Don't forget the tutorial on drawing eyes.
the best videos I ever seen on youtube RIP...Tom Keating...i am an artist & i always learn so so much on your videos.!......RIP...Tom Keating
What a great video to discover Tom Keating. He works with so much assurance. Now I'm going to watch the second video ....
Invaluable lessons on the methods of painters. I did not learn this in art school ! My hearfelt thanks to you. You are a jem !
You won't learn anything worth knowing in art school
I can’t thank you enough for your amazing demonstration. What a genius you are. Turner would have been impressed.
Sometimes I wonder if Turner would be impressed with me. When no ones around, I dig a hole in my garden and cover myself with dirt and pretend I’m a carrot.
Wonderful man , what a privilege it would have been to meet him, so warm and a natural teacher great man, love him.
It would take a lifetime just to achieve and learn from this man. What a Born Gift he had.
Amazing talent and very, very rare these days.
Wow! what a special man.
Stevie in Scotland.
It is rare these days because the patrons of fine art are no longer the Church , the monarchs mor the aristocracy! The patrons of fine art today are very weird billionnairs.
"Amazing!" Wheres my easel? Makes me wish I had studied art techniques more intensely many years ago, Seeing, and experiencing thousands of great works over 50 years helps, but leaves one lacking without benefit of little known techniques. This will make better painters out of a lot of people. Painting on canvas is far far from a dead art form, or obsolete. It lives on with great fervor for quality work created with passion, and skill.
I've never seen anyone paint like this...a remarkable video on the insights of a great painter
What a wonderful `Master Class`. A very great insight into Turner`s genius. Thank you for passing this on.
Thank you, too, very interesting and fascinating to watch! As a former retired NYC fashion illustrator now fine art painter who lives by the sea, I love Turner's work which was also a precursor to abstract expressionism! I use acrylics and paint in an impressionist/lyrical abstract expressionist way, but also do figurative painting influenced by John William Waterhouse's figures and also influenced by Claude Monet. My late great uncle Capt. Howard Hartman was a sea captain and artist who wrote a fascinating book, "The Seas Were Mine" and was friends with Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad and would have loved to watch this as well. Love the idea of using a sponge to soften the painting, too! While not into painting ships, I love to paint different cloud formations, the sea and gardens of flowers having been a floral designer as well. Copying the masters is still a time honored way to teach oneself to paint! Good points made here as well. I'm used to working fast because in fashion/art school in Manhattan they timed our drawings with a timer, ten minute sketches, then five minutes, three minutes down to a one minute sketch! One had to learn to work fast as a fashion artist in the fashion industry! Acrylics also dry faster than oil and another reason to work quickly, but it's very easy to go over any mistakes one may make. Sometimes, mistakes aren't mistakes as originally thought and I've left them in on purpose because in the end, they look ok in the scheme of things! A reason not to try and be a perfectionist when doing art. especially art as art therapy!
Thanks ever so much for posting this.
I have the other programmes on videotape, but not this one. Tom Keating is obviously very fondly remembered by all nascent young painters (like me) at the original time of these broadcasts who were inspired and catalysed by his enthusiasm. He certainly wouldn't have fitted in today's hyperbolic approach to television presentation. Or even been allowed to..
Magnifique ! Il faut être un peintre de talent pour comprendre la subtilité de l'art de Turner. Quelle merveilleuse idée que cette vidéo qui permet de regarder différemment les toiles de ce génie de la peinture.
I’ve been obsessed by Turner’s skies for my entire artistic life- I spent a winter acrylic painting from some Turner painting images, just to learn how to achieve that soft frothing light. They are still some of my favorite studies.
This was fascinating to watch- thank you for sharing! I’m no longer focused on painting, but it’s always good to sit and learn more skills/ hear the artist’s stories.
Absolutely bloody brilliant!
Brilliantly explained how folk bought art of what they couldn't see in normal life such are Seascapes and Landscapes.
Absolutely priceless! Tom was one of a kind... beyond talented!
Oh my goodness, this is so beautifull, I could look at it forever
I m Italian and off course i love Italian and French artist 🎨 but i had to agree: JMW Turner was the best watercolour painter ever existed.
Fantastic'. Dialogue explained depth of techniques used in the waiting, Turner is my favour it artist aso- I had wondered how he attained the luminosity in his paintings'. Incredible work. Thank o
Thank You for posting this treasure!
What a great video...one of my favourites....💖
Amazing.. such knowledge and pleasure to watch.. How lucky we are to see a wonderful person showing us masterfully how to paint with passion and such skill :)
SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL 😍❤.
Well that was a eye opener what a talented man ..
As a self-taught painter ( "to be" painter :P) I find his videos very useful. Finally there is someone who shows you or gives you at least an idea how the great masters started out their works. It is really hard nowadays to find a master and get into apprenticeship with him/her so you can learn painting properly. Instead there are schools who put you in debt for thousands and thousands and even so, they don't tell or teach you everything either...
exceptional show...enjoy it as a repeatable fount of artist knowlege and skill.
As an artist, I've found Tom's presentations both inspirational and technically beneficial. I get the feeling he forgot more about how to draw and paint than I'll ever learn! After watching several shows I did some research on Tom and learned of his past and that he died shortly after making these shows for the BCC. It does seem clear he is not in great health so when I watch them over, it is tinged with some sadness. He was clearly a gifted, humble and intelligent man with a passion for Art!
Channel 4 in the UK commissioned the series to give it credit not the BBC.
Wether you went to a formal Art School or not, all artists learn from other artists in some way or another. In my younger days I would have given just about anything to apprentice under Mr. Keating. I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find someone with a wider range of knowledge & understanding about art, and the ability to present that knowledge in a way that is both easy to understand and useful in a practical way.
I've met many artists that were horrible teachers, and great teachers that were average artists.
Not many are both great artists and extraordinary teachers.
Tom Keating was both.
Well done, Thank you Tom.
Splendid lesson!
Fantastic video, and what a lovely painting...
Absolutely fantastic!
I have been painting for about a year and thought I understood my limitations as an artist. Turns out I had no idea.
I liked everything about this man 😊
What an artist and what a teacher
Thank you for your efforts...appreciated...
Tremendous knowledge and great skills, fantastic Artist.
This is a Master Class indeed!
Well done Master Keating You are awesome
Thankyou for sharing your intelligence & inspiration
Wow so much knowledge in this video
Thank you for a free lessons a great gift to many!!!!!
Wow. Just wow
This old master certainly learned a thing or 2 from THE Old masters.🖌
Very inspirational and useful tips !
Fabulous Painting !!!!!!!!!!! wow thank you for sharing ...
tempra paint ie; poster paint or liken to guache. he says it is just pigment and distilled water. no egg. It crumbles when applied to thickly. hence the need for the varnish to lock it down as it were.
absolutely marvelous!
this is amazing
Keating was an indisputable genius.
Fantastic!
Mr Keating was one of the best teachers of it's kind !
Fabulous video. Thank you.
What a lovely man and fantastic knowledgeable artist
So relaxing & educational😁💖
mr keating leaves the viewer with the impression of a man who knows his life did not afford him enough time to complete the things he wished to achieved.....maybe it is that way for all men...in retrospect.
dream like~ feels like go back to 18th century watching Turner painting~
I learned so much. Thank you
Thanks for uploading that was dope.
The Fakes Progress is the book if you would like to know more of his story. It's a good read .
Outstanding, a genius
Brilliant.
Underrated artist
Thank you!
He is so great.
Broadcast on Channel 4: 18th November 1982
A great artist himself
Was him who put on me the vicious of painting, in a good sense naturally. I have tapes on VHS, of this series of videos. I buy it in 1980, I never forget,
Amazing :)
Magnificent
Brillant!
very interesting approach explaining the paint techniques.....think he lived in brentwood essex..(tom K that is !)...did a clarke colours the turner trail in yorkshire 1995 art course weekend based in wensleydale..great fun ..and learning with the countess of wharncliffe who's family used to own the hardraw falls and other areas he painted ..GDC
I love watching him perform the various techniques while explaining the history of each individual artist. My only complaint is the mouth-breathing. But every pleasure has a price-lol
Trouble with you Tom is that you paint better than the Old Masters!
I'm very excited to be playing Tom in Korea today~
Oh my sweet God.....
wish i was a student.....2nd best are these videos.....should go on PBS
Great Man this Man !
This is wonderful and much better than THAT film!
And Rembrandt only made one paining in a ship.. wow👍🏼