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As a hrst step, Heus would have them forego mechanical aids. "So many of today’s American painters have a dark corner in their studios where they keep their projectors. They project an image onto a canvas and then they trace around it,” Heus said. This photo-realistic genre is “the absence of soul, the absence of style—it's nothing!” he charged. “It belongs to the if-you-can’tdo-it-well, then-do-it-big school.”
Not An Artist
While Heus is quick to criticize, he’s just as quick to disparage his own efforts. “I'm not an artist yet. I’m a watercolorist and printmaker who has been at it seven years or so. The first two or three years was just a waste of time. I was doing things I had no business doing,” he added with a deprecating grin.
Heus began painting without the benefit of instruction—either formal or informal. “I started on my own. It was trial and error and after the error prevailed, I took some drawing classes, he joked. "Like most novices, I started with oils—the worst possible medium because you can just keep covering up your mistakes. Water colors are best. If you make a mistake, that’s it. You've got to throw it away and start over again. It becomes a learning experience. You learn from your mistakes.”
But learning from his own mistakes wasn’t enough for the aspiring artist and so he tried commuting to the Art Students League in New York City. “The subways got to me though, and I came back.” Then someone told Heus that one of the best teachers in the country was working at the Northern Virginia Community College’s Manassas campus. “At NVCC? I thought she was kidding!” he recalled. Still disbelieving, he decided to try a class and found a true drawing master at NVCC. “I’m still amazed. She was terrific. If you didn’t work, she almost put you in a corner. It was real old fashioned discipline.”
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