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it. You’ve got to throw it away and start over again. It becomes a learning experience. You learn from your mistakes.”

He also learned from others. Fresh from college in New York, he had joined his parents at their farm in Orlean when he heard that one of the country’s best teachers was at the Manassas campus of the Northern Virginia Community College, just a short commute from Fauquier. Disbelieving but hopeful, he tried a class and found a true drawing

master. “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.”

And discipline is the key to becoming an artist, according to Mr. Heus. “You’ve got to draw to learn — every day. If there’s a talent in

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