Tom Keating On Painters - E01 - Turner

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 !

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!

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.

The introductory segment alone deserves a "thumb's up". This is a fun presentation. I am glad to see such respect for Turner.

This was amazing and precious.

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.

One of the best videos I ever seen on u tube.

Well done Mr. Keating. You were one of a kind.

I've watched this video about a hundred times, it was the only way I could paint my own Turner.

That was amazing. It is extraordinary to witness how calmly he paints it all.

SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL 😍❤.

Lovely. It's well worth listening to Tom Keating being interviewed in the 'Desert Island Discs' archives too. Great chap.

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."

Tom Keating was a genius, good to see these again.

What an amazingly talented and knowledgeable painter was Keating. This, and other videos of him blow me away. Thanks for posting this.

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

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..

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!

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.

This is wonderful. Thank you for posting. KZhead, the best in our civilized life.

I can’t thank you enough for your amazing demonstration. What a genius you are. Turner would have been impressed.

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.

I've never seen anyone paint like this...a remarkable video on the insights of a great painter

Wonderful man , what a privilege it would have been to meet him, so warm and a natural teacher great man, love him.

Thank You for posting this treasure!

"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.

Absolutely priceless! Tom was one of a kind... beyond talented!

Oh my goodness, this is so beautifull, I could look at it forever

What a great video to discover Tom Keating. He works with so much assurance. Now I'm going to watch the second video ....

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

What a great video...one of my favourites....💖

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.

Invaluable lessons on the methods of painters. I did not learn this in art school ! My hearfelt thanks to you. You are a jem !

This is like a criminal version of Bob Ross. I love it.

What a wonderful `Master Class`. A very great insight into Turner`s genius. Thank you for passing this on.

Absolutely bloody brilliant!

I liked everything about this man 😊

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.

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 :)

Fantastic video, and what a lovely painting...

Thank you for your efforts...appreciated...

Thank you for a free lessons a great gift to many!!!!!

exceptional show...enjoy it as a repeatable fount of artist knowlege and skill.

Tremendous knowledge and great skills, fantastic Artist.

Absolutely fantastic!

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

Well done, Thank you Tom.

Brilliantly explained how folk bought art of what they couldn't see in normal life such are Seascapes and Landscapes.

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.

Fabulous video. Thank you.

Thanks for uploading that was dope.

Fabulous Painting !!!!!!!!!!! wow thank you for sharing ...

This is a Master Class indeed!

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!

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...

this is amazing

Very inspirational and useful tips !

Well done Master Keating You are awesome

Thankyou for sharing your intelligence & inspiration

Well that was a eye opener what a talented man ..

Splendid lesson!

absolutely marvelous!

What a lovely man and fantastic knowledgeable artist

So relaxing & educational😁💖

Mr Keating was one of the best teachers of it's kind !

Wow so much knowledge in this video

I learned so much. Thank you

Fantastic!

I have been painting for about a year and thought I understood my limitations as an artist. Turns out I had no idea.

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.

This old master certainly learned a thing or 2 from THE Old masters.🖌

Outstanding, a genius

What an artist and what a teacher

Keating was an indisputable genius.

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.

Thank you!

dream like~ feels like go back to 18th century watching Turner painting~

Wow. Just wow

Brilliant.

He is so great.

Underrated artist

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

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,

Magnificent

I'm very excited to be playing Tom in Korea today~

Broadcast on Channel 4: 18th November 1982

wish i was a student.....2nd best are these videos.....should go on PBS

Great Man this Man !

Amazing :)

The Fakes Progress is the book if you would like to know more of his story. It's a good read .

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.

Trouble with you Tom is that you paint better than the Old Masters!

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

Brillant!

huuum , all right . So i guess ytat he's closed to Turner those days . thank you . and bless him

Can one purchase ready mixed coloured tempera in tubes/pots?

A great artist himself

This is wonderful and much better than THAT film!