Basie - Drawing teacher - Randburg
Basie - Drawing teacher - Randburg

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Basie

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Basie - Drawing teacher - Randburg
  • 5 (4 reviews)

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  • Drawing
  • Art And Design
  • Illustration
  • Oil painting
  • Caricature

Basie Geerdts, a Johannesburg fine artist and graduate of the Johannesburg College of Art, gives lessons on how to draw and to do oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel paintings.

  • Drawing
  • Art And Design
  • Illustration
  • Oil painting
  • Caricature

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Basie is a respected tutor in our community. He is highly recommended for his commitment and the quality of his lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.

About Basie

My first memory of wanting to do art was how I admired a watercolor seascape my parents had hanging above the fireplace. All I wanted was to also create art like that. I spent a lot of time as a youngster doing pencil drawings – especially when needed for my history, biology and science projects – and also had a great desire to do pencil drawings of Formula 1 cars and portraits of drivers like Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jody Scheckter and actors like Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. When I turned thirteen, my dad, Sonny Geerdts, thought it would be a good idea to buy me a paint-by-numbers set. He was right, what a great idea! After painting the two paint-by-number landscape scenes though, I went to my dad and asked him if it would be possible for me to get my own art material so I can do my own thing. So my dad summarily took me to Herbert Evans Art and bought me my first set of oil paints. One day I saw a black and white photograph of Dr. Chris Barnard, the South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, in the newspaper. Now, having my own set of oil paints, all I wanted to do was paint a portrait of him – in color! I didn’t know whether it was good or not, but it certainly impressed my dad enough for him to come up with a comment that, to this day, still inspires me. He asked me to show him my hands and after seeing and touching them, he said “You must really look after your hands Baas. You’ve got gold in them.” As a result, whenever my dad had the opportunity to promote my talent, he did. No matter what the expense, he made sure I used only the best paints, best brushes, best canvases, best paper – in short – best everything. He was so enthusiastic about my art that he would constantly sit and watch me. When my name appeared in the newspaper to say that I passed matric, my dad said it was a misprint. When asked why, he said that he never saw me do any homework and all I ever did was listen to music while doing art or participating in different kinds of sport – so how could I have passed? I responded by jokingly saying that I didn’t need to study because I was simply a born ‘genius’. After doing that full color portrait of Dr. Barnard, doing portraits became one of my greatest passions. I think it’s because I get a kick out of attempting to capture the uniqueness of every individual – the way we smile, the way we frown, the way we express our emotions – all those little things that make us who we really are. Throughout our lives our feelings flow in torrents. A smorgasbord of feelings borne out of witnessing the vitality and energy of the people we as artists observe. I think it’s wonderful that artists can capture those feelings and have them displayed where people can relive them whenever they desire to. Over the years I have stored up an enormous range of subjects and images which I constantly capture and express on a variety of surfaces. So I still have no idea where my art is busy taking me, but I do know that wherever that may be, the journey itself is turning out to be an incredible adventure!

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  • English

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What is considered a fine art? Fine art is a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture. The first thing I do is to find out the skill level of each of my students and which spectrum he/she hopes to follow or explore with that talent. The first thing we need to learn as artists is how to look at, examine and explore our subject matter. Then we need to learn how to draw and how to capture the essence of what we observe. One of the most wonderful attributes of art is how to break the rules and let your art take the observer on an excitingly unknown journey. That piece of art that makes some people gasp in awe or speaks to them so deeply in their inner being that they simply start crying. If you can break the rules (or even follow the rules) to that extent, then you’re a great artist. And it doesn’t matter what it looks like. There is, however, something we need to know before we can liberally break the rules – and that is to first learn the rules – how to draw. After we learn that, we learn how to draw with a brush. Essentially, that is what fine art painting is all about, drawing pictures in color with a brush…or a stick…or a bottle…or a knife…or whatever it is you wish to make a statement with. And then…who knows! Please visit my site at: (concealed information)

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  • ₹1,268

Pack prices

  • 5h: ₹1,153
  • 10h: ₹1,038

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  • ₹1,268/hr

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