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io eaten nis iavorite subject, sunlight, Heus took his easel, paper and watercolors outdoors. “They . light starts getting good here in September and it stays good until the middle of May,’’ he noted. Reproducing Rappahannock's sunrises and sunsets, twilights and shadows, is “always challenging, always challenging,” Heus added.
In his pursuit of the epithet of artist, Heus counts himself one of the lucky few. Two days a week, he works in Warrenton, restoring oil paintings and frames. “It’s art-related. It enhances my own work and I don't have the pressure on me to crank out paintings to make the mortgage payment,” he said.
“It’s best not to try to make a living at art. I have the luxury of doing what I want. I don’t have to paint for the market. I can paint what’s true to me—and hope people like it!”
But acceptance of an artist’s work—no matter how sought after, no matter how desirable—creates another potential problem, according to Ray Heus. “You've got to keep your nose from going up in the air Being an artist doesn't mean you’re God's gift to culture. You’ve got to keep reminding yourself that essentially, you’re just decorating walls!”
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