European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 13, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9brush with rejection forces artist to grow by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Baum Holder West Germany a nine years later artist Debra Spertz still remembers the humiliation of rejection. A judge at an Art exhibition in Oklahoma walked right past her pen and Ink drawings without bothering to cast a second glance at them. A i guess he was a color Man did no to like Black and White a Goertz said shrugging her shoulders at the memory from an exhibition Early in her career. In the years since that show Goertz has added pastels and Watercolours to her Black and White repertoire. Along the Way she has seen her works draw More and More glances. For instance she recently earned an entry in the newest edition of the a encyclopedia of living artists As a water Florist. She Hopes exposure in the Book which is sent to Art buyers for galleries and corporations will increase her sales when she returns to the United states. Goertz and her husband capt. Charles r. Goertz a Field artillery officer with the 29th Field arty in Baum Holder Are heading to fort Hood Texas this Spring. The Walls of her Home studio offer a Small sampling of her artistic Range. A Watercolour of Young French dance students looking from a tall window shares Wall space with a charcoal portrait of an Indian and pen and Ink drawings of an Eagle. A Large pastel portrait of a father and daughter is bordered by pen and Ink scenes from Baum older. Most of Goertz a works Are painted or drawn from photographs made by her husband a part time photographer. Quot people ask me Why i done to paint More from life. Number one children wiggle around too much. Number two most of the time the weather is like this Quot she said pointing out the window to sheets of rain. Although Goertz expanded her work after that crushing rejection in 1981, she had been unable to work up the courage to exhibit it until february. The decision to display her work at the Baum older  proved to be profitable. City of Licals purchased pen and Ink prints she had drawn of Baum older and plan to display them at City Hall. Goertz a interest in Art can be traced to her childhood. A my Mother says that she was washing Crayon off the Walls from the time 1 was born. My earliest memory of doing artwork is around second Grade Quot Goertz said. A any comics that had people in them i would copy. I taught myself to draw that  Goertz explained that she refused to take Art classes after the seventh Grade. A i had a few arguments with Art teachers in school. They wanted me to draw abstract things they wanted me to create things that did no to really look like what i thought Art should be a she said. A after several arguments i decided i would never take Art because the teachers did no to know How to  Goertz looks at herself differently and believes she can teach drawing As Well As do it. Goertz said that drawing what you see is a matter of letting the brains creative right Side do the work while subduing its methodical literal left Side. She credited this method of drawing to artist Betty Edwards who wrote an instruction Book called a drawing on the right Side of the  a we know what the Symbol for an Eye is so that a what we draw a she said a the Oval with the Eye in the Middle with the Spiky eyelashes sticking  she added that people learning to draw  say they Are drawing an Eye. A naming is a left brain activity. Think of them in terms of their angles and shapes and draw the angles and shapes a she said. A a it la turn out  the classes she has taught in her Home have earned Goertz a Loyal following. A a she a not one of those people who has the Talent but can to share it a said Barbara Randolph a student since september. To beginning artists Goertz offers a bit of advice taken from her experiences. A a in a Tell them to paint All they could and to not let rejection Stop them a she said remembering her humiliation nine years ago. A at the time i had the rejection All i had was pen and Ink. Now i have so Many different kinds of things that almost everybody finds something they  Here a my _ a amps Lynda Davidson a pen and Ink sketch of a Baum older scene by Debra Goertz. A charcoal p�r1rait of an Indian hangs i a amps Lynda Davidson in her  amps Lynda Davidson Debra Goertz works with Watercolours on a painting in her Home studio in Baum older West Germany