Tom Keating On Painters - Renoir

Tidied up his grave a couple of weeks ago out of respect. It's in the churchyard in Dedham Essex

He is a fine artist. And his tips on how he achieves the fine points to create the distinctive features and captures the spirit of the model. Amazing how he flows in and out of the portrait. You are so right when mentioned years of experience truly a(seasoned painter) thanks Tom.

Great video, especially when Tom shows the "tonking" method developed by Professor Henry Tonks ❤

Thank you, very interesting.beautiful painting.

Wish I could have met Tom Keating he's truly one of the greats of our time. He died just a couple months before I was born.

What a great master ....

I just realized his hand was swollen. Bless his soul...

Have enjoyed him for years!

this is incredible

I'm not a painter but I love how he talks about shading. It's like music.

Coucou c'est Félicia. Jsuis a Paris et maman d'une petite fille. Dommage ya plus tes musiques ❤ biz

You are a master sir. I love watching you paint. Compared to you I’m a hack.

Thank you Tom, really interesting. I couldn’t draw to save my life, so I can’t comment as others have, regarding your own artistic ability. As the old saying goes though, ‘I know what I like’ and I have thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Thank you.

I like Tom, he's commentating and demonstrating things very quickly which isn't easy to do. I'm not sure how many Renoirs he saw up close in person, but I think there's a number of things he's getting wrong. I doubt Renoir ever started with a conventional drawing in dry medium, not that it's a problem. Renoir added medium either to his paint or directly to his canvas (possibly a 50/50 turpentine/linseed oil mix), which is why you get the slicker look in his work, whereas the other impressionists favoured oil paint that had been leeched of excess oil content. When you see many of his paintings up close, they're not dab, dab, dab with lot of thick impasto paint. He started thin, and built up in the lighter areas, but they don't look excessively dabbed (like Pissarro in his neo-impressionist influenced period), and not that impasto. I think Tom has also greatly exaggerated the warm and cool relationship, maybe to make a point, but it lacks subtlety, and a bit too much suggestion of drawing. I don't say any of this to sound critical, I admire Tom, he's full of interesting information, it's just if you came to videos like this and took it too literally, you could get frustrated and come away with the idea that Renoir did in fact create paintings this way. The best thing to do is either find a museum with these paintings in, or find a very high quality one on the internet, and zoom in to reveal the textures, transparencies, impasto elements, brush stokes etc.

Wonderful artist..... conman yes, artist yes,

Many of the comments here are typical of 'KZheadrs', ignorant and juvanile. how many times did he say it was a quick example of the artists technique and it would have taken weeks or months to complete a painting, please pay attention and listen or just stick to your Playstation.

i find it hard to believe that people criticize this video and critique his painting as if they have some sort of authority. someone said that its far short of renoir lol. i bet if renoir himself was on a video they would say that hes a good look-a-like but not as good as the "real" renoir lol. some people do that with modern celebs. the point is they dont know as much as they think they do. like little kids.

bravo. very nice.

Thank u sir!

Video removed?:(

Well I have to say; he gave Renoir a blessed effort. There were many points when Keaton should have backed off and called it 'finished' ... which is what Renoir did oft (when not commissioned). I saw some magical portraiture become repeatedly destroyed by 'overworking', 'over-analyzing', etc. But I love Keaton as a teacher. (I think he realized his limits with Renoir). Renoir (probably my fav artist) made a lot of mistakes and bad paintings as well. He oft made the neck too short (like his wife's) and undefined. His crude nude figures are not my cup. But Renoir is my go-to reference for portraiture. Nothing has captivated me more than Renoir for children and ladies. Keaton is so broad in his appreciation of great artists!

I enjoyed my watch and it looked a bit like a Renoir

l think in the very short time he has in front of the camera it's very good. Come time this painting would be worked on over a long period improving slowly but surely

He's talking about Renoir, but the painting has nothing to do with Renoir or his technique.

Lego.

Uhhh... wut. Looks nothing like a Renoir :/

Not impressed with this one. Sorry

really didnt like the under drawing

some interesting moments in the series but the paintings he makes are all awful