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By JANE BANGLEY
RapiMhuinock N«w« SUIT Writer
Artist. Damon M. Hertig has stacks of paintings besides the ones on exhibit at the Town and Country Restaurant in New Baltimore, but it is still hard for him to let a painting go when it is bought.
“I do the oil paintings mainly as a hobby, so the money I get for them isn’t that important to me,” Hertig said. The paintings are primarily of wildlife, horses, dogs and mountain and hunt scenes. There is one painting, though, of a ship at sea that hangs apart from the others in the restaurant. “That painting I did when I was 21, and I’ll never sell it,” said Hertig.
Hertig began painting when he was 12 with his uncle Ernest Hertig in West Virginia. “My parents would send me to stay with him in the summers, and I just started painting with him,” Hertig said. His uncle’s paintings are exhibited throughout West Virginia.
After finishing high school, Hertig attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. where he studied fine art and commercial art. “I then joined the 82nd Airborne and used many of my artistic skills painting murals at Ft. Bragg and Okinawa,” Hertig said. “I was also able to obtain more artistic culture as I traveled all over the Far East.”
When he was discharged from the
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